L. & G. Theodore, L. Koumi, L. Fink, G.+ J.+ I. Farrah
Trainer
Les Theodore (at 2) Bart Cummings (at 3) Colin Hayes (at 4) David Hayes (from 5 to 7)
Record
45: 17–9–3[1]
Earnings
A$4,773,970[1]
Major wins
Honda Stakes (1989) Railway Stakes (1989) Winfield Stakes (1989) W. S. Cox Plate (1990) Segenhoe Stakes (1990) LKS MacKinnon Stakes (1990) J F Feehan Stakes (1990) Blamey Stakes (1990, 1991) Turnbull Stakes (1990) Australian Cup (1991) International race wins: Japan Cup (1990)
Awards
Australian Horse of the Year (1991)
Honours
Australian Racing Hall of Fame (2004)
Last updated on 13 June 2011
Better Loosen Up (foaled 29 August 1985 – died 15 March 2016[2]) was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Japan Cup in 1990[3] and was named Australia's champion racehorse in 1991. He campaigned from two to seven years of age, and won 17 of his 45 starts,[4] including eight Group One races.[5] In 2004, he was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.[6]
Better Loosen Up was a small bay gelding, by Loosen Up (USA) out of Better Fantasy by Better Boy (IRE). He was bred by Howard Martin and foaled in Berrigan, New South Wales. Loosen Up won the French Prix de l' Avre and was the sire of six stakes-winners in Australia with Better Loosen Up being the best one. Better Fantasy was the dam of 13 named foals, but Better Loosen Up was her only stakes-winner.[7]
^ abBetter Loosen Up's racing record
^The Australian, Better Loosen Up, champion gelding, dies at 30
^[1] List of Japan Cup winners
^[2] Better Loosen Up's career record (Note: While the races contested by Better Loosen Up and his finishing positions appear correct, in many cases the other placegetters are not correct)
^ASB – Race wins Retrieved on 26 July 2009
^Better Loosen Up in limelight again
^"Better Fantasy (AUS)". Australian Stud Book. Australian Turf Club Limited and Victoria Racing Club Limited. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
BetterLoosenUp (foaled 29 August 1985 – died 15 March 2016) was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Japan Cup in 1990 and was named Australia's...
scoring by a neck in world record time for 2400 meters. A year later BetterLoosenUp struck for Australian trainer David Hayes by a head from French-trained...
After placing third in both the St George Stakes and Blamey Stakes to BetterLoosenUp and Sydeston respectively he suffered an injury to his tendons and...
male-line descendants were Ballymoss, Arkle, Never Say Die, Royal Palace, BetterLoosenUp, Sir Ivor, Invasor, Wise Dan, and Summer Breeze. Sireline descendants...
Cox Plate winners Bonecrusher, Super Impose, Our Poetic Prince, and BetterLoosenUp. He was successful from the William Reid Stakes (1,200 metres) to the...
Valley Racing Club conducts the race, which is staged for three-year-olds and up. The race distance from 1922 to 1942 was 9½ furlongs. The race distance from...
Year". bloodhorse.com. Retrieved 17 September 2016. "Black Caviar chalks up award hat-trick as nation's best". The Sydney Morning Herald. Michael Lynch...
Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Salsabil Japan – Japan Cup won by BetterLoosenUp English Triple Crown Races: 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Tirol The Derby...
Subzero might be the one he has raced up to Sir Winston, from Cavallieri, Castletown and then Veandercross getting out late from Ali Boy. Greg Hall has...
resting place for local and international champions including Bay Story, BetterLoosenUp, Doriemus, Little Bridge, Manduros Son, Wunderwood, and 2014 Melbourne...
Thoroughbreds that have won the Railway Stakes – Kingston Town Classic double: BetterLoosenUp (1989), Old Comrade (2001), Modem (2004), Sniper's Bullet (2009) 2023...
in all conditions, and regularly raced with Vo Rogue, Super Impose, BetterLoosenUp, The Phantom, Kingston Rule and Shaftesbury Avenue. Sydeston died in...
reached the leaders and finished eighth behind the Australian gelding BetterLoosenUp. In 1986, the independent Timeform organisation gave Ibn Bey a rating...
and finished twelfth of the fifteen runners behind the Australian BetterLoosenUp. Before the race she had been acquired by the Japanese owner Yoshio...
such thoroughbreds that also competed overseas as Tobin Bronze and BetterLoosenUp. 1955–1972 - 1+1⁄4 miles (~2000 metres) 1973 onwards - 1600 metres...
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