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Galleons Sunset (Freezebrand: 01Z2316) is a bay Standardbred harness racing gelding from New Zealand. He was bred by the Fanny Allen Family Trust and foaled on 14 November 2001. Galleons Sunset was sired by Sundon [1] out of Galleons Dream [2] by Chiola Hanover. He was trained by Derek Balle and won the 2008 Interdominion trotting title for Chris Lang.
Galleons Sunset's first Group One race was in the 2,575 metres SEW Eurodrive Australian Trotting Grand Prix at Moonee Valley Racecourse where he finished fourth. He won his first race near the end of 2007 in the 1,609 m Bill Collins Trotters Mile with a mile rate of TR1:58.9. In early 2008, Galleons Sunset placed second in the 2710m Sky Channel Dullard Trot Cup at Ballerat Racecourse. His next win was the upset at the Interdominion Grand Finale, that year held at Moone Valley, with a mile rate of TR 2:03.3. [3] Early in 2009, Galleons Sunset placed third in the Vue Bar Skycity Cambridge Trotters and then went on to win the Tri Cups Golf Day Handicap. In the Dawn Balle Memorial Handicap, Galleons Sunset unexpectedly won the trot dedicated to the memory of his trainer's mother.
On 24 December 2009, Galleons Sunset was retired from racing after his final start due to a chronic fetlock injury. He was retired at his trainer Derek Balle's father's farm. [4]
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Inkerman was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Trained in Ireland as a three-year-old, he won his first two races including the Gallinule Stakes and then finished unplaced when favourite for The Derby. Later that year he recorded his biggest win in Europe when he won the Group 1 Joe McGrath Memorial Stakes. After being sold for a world record sum he was transferred to the United States where he won the Sunset Handicap in 1980. He later stood as a breeding stallion but had very little success as a sire of winners.
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