Kindergarten (horse)

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Kindergarten was a New Zealand racehorse during the early 1940s. He won many of the premier events in New Zealand including the Wellington Cup and Auckland Cup. He won over £16,000 in stake money, a large amount during the war. In his one trip to Australia he was allocated a prohibitive weight, and came third to High Caste and Freckles, two great Australian champions, in the Warwick Stakes.

After the race he was unsettled, and rather than risk damage, he was returned to New Zealand. Three times he was assessed as top weight in the Melbourne Cup, a race in which he would never partake, sometimes at a greater handicap than the mighty Phar Lap.

Overall, he raced 35 times for 25 wins and 6 placings.