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Wakeful was one of the great Thoroughbred mares of the Australian turf. She had shown her versatility by defeating top racehorses at distances from 5½ furlongs to 3 miles. She was unplaced in only three races.〔 This bay filly was foaled in 1896, and was by the outstanding racehorse and sire, Trenton from Insomnia by Robinson Crusoe. Her pedigree contained mostly good old colonial bloodlines that had proved their worth in Australian racing and breeding.〔 She was offered at the St Aubins stud dispersal sale in 1900 and purchased by Leslie Macdonald for the bargain price of 310 guineas.〔(HoF: Wakeful ) Retrieved 2010-9-20〕 ==Racing record== Wakeful did not commence racing until she was four because of shin soreness. At her third start she won the VATC Oakleigh Plate, followed that by winning the VRC Newmarket Handicap and then the AJC Doncaster Handicap in a race record time of 1:39.75. Taken to Sydney in 1902, she won all her four starts including the Sydney Cup carrying the impost of , and ran a race record.〔John Hogan, ''Wakeful – a grand mare'', p. 91, Racetrack magazine, December 1981〕 Wakeful then went on to win races such as the AJC Plate and VRC Champion Stakes at three miles.〔Pring, Peter; "Analysis of Champion Racehorses", The Thoroughbred Press, Sydney, 1977, ISBN 0-908133-00-6〕 At her last start she ran second in the 1903 VRC Melbourne Cup carrying the huge impost for a mare of which was 13 pounds over weight for age and conceded the winner Lord Cardigan . Previously no mare had carried more than and none of them finished in the first six.〔Cavanough, Maurice, ''The Melbourne Cup'', Jack Pollard P/L, North Sydney, 1976〕 In all she had 44 starts, winning 25 races, was second 12 times and third 4 times.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wakeful (horse)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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