Spin Doctor aiming to defy odds

23 October 2015

Spin Doctor will be at long odds in the Windsor Park and has to overcome a wide draw, but he is capable of a bold run. He carried 62.5kg when beaten at his last start and also needed the run, which was his first for seven weeks.

He is the equal highest-rated runner – with favourite Addictive Habit – having won 13 races and been Group One-placed at weight-for-age level. – NZ Racing Desk.

Savabeel, from furthering a legacy to creating his own – The Straight

A true Australasian success story on the track and in the breeding shed, the influence of Savabeel, who died last week aged 24, will be felt for years to come on both sides of the …

23 June 2026

Sav’s final resting place

“I’ve got a couple of very special bottles of wine that I’ve had for a number of years, and usually they would have been opened on a celebration, but I thought it was very pertinent, and well, it was a celebration, it was a celebration of his life,” Mark Chittick told The Straight.