| Sir Slick | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Volksraad |
| Grandsire | Green Desert |
| Dam | Miss Opera |
| Damsire | Paris Opera |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 2001 |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Monovale Holdings Ltd |
| Owner | Ms F B Crimmins & G A Nicholson |
| Trainer | John Sargent |
| Record |
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| Earnings | NZ$ 2,038,477 |
| Major wins | |
| 2009 Thorndon Mile 2007/08/10 Awapuni Gold Cup 2008 First Sovereign Trust NZ Stakes 2007 ARC Zabeel Classic 2007 Thorndon Mile 2007 Whakanui International Stakes 2007 Otaki-Māori Weight-For-Age |
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| Awards | |
| Champion Middle Distance Horse of the Year (2007) Most Popular Horse (2007) |
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| Horse (Equus ferus caballus) | |
Sir Slick (foaled 2001)
A Bay gelding bred by sire Volksraad from the Paris Opera mare Miss Opera, the New Zealand bred Sir Sick has raced nationally and internationally performing in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. He is the winner of six Group One races in New Zealand, and has become one of the country's most popular racehorses due to his success and his ability to withstand long racing campaigns. He was bred by Monovale Holdings Ltd, .
His major victories include the 2007 International Stakes, 2007 and 2009 Thorndon Mile, 2007 Otaki Māori WFA, 2008 New Zealand Stakes and the 2007 Zabeel Classic. While not winning outside of New Zealand, he ran third in the 2009 Doomben Cup in Australia and ran fifth in the Singapore International Cup. His most recognised achievement to date involves being awarded the title of New Zealand's Champion Middle Distance Racehorse of the year 2006/07 That season saw him voted as the Most Popular Horse of that season, and he was runner-up in the overall Horse of the Year voting.
Dam of Sir Slick, Miss Opera, was the winner of 6 races including the Listed Castletown Stakes. Sir Slick was a NZ$48,000 purchase from Mapperley Stud at the 2003 Select Colts Karaka Yearling Sale by Graeme Nicholson. Sir Slick has made an appearance in a substantial 122 races over his seven year career. Of the 122 races ,including his overseas starts, he has seen the winners circle 22 times and has earnt himself nearly NZ$2 million in prize money internationally.
He has seen to be a significant stand out amongst his fellow brothers and sisters although three to date consist of winners including stakes placed Shortblackmini (by. Black Minnaloushe) and Mr Jinky (by. Volksraad).
| Sire Volksraad (GB) 1988 |
Green Desert | Danzig | Northern Dancer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pas De Nom | |||
| Foreign Courier | Sir Ivor | ||
| Courtly dee | |||
| Celtic Assembly | Secretariat | Bold Ruler | |
| Somethingroyal | |||
| Welsh Garden | Welsh Saint | ||
| Garden Of Eden | |||
| Dam Miss Opera (NZ) 1992 |
Paris Opera | Marscay | Biscay |
| Heart Of Market | |||
| Adelette | Baguette | ||
| Adelena | |||
| Brierley | Sir Godfrey | Riverman | |
| Glaneuse | |||
| Justaz Wealthy | Resurgent | ||
| So Wealthy |
Sir Slick and Time Keeper transferring to Sargent
26 Aug 2011
The training of iron horse Sir Slick and stablemate Time Keeper is set to be taken over by John Sargent. The Group One-winning pair’s part-owner and original trainer Graeme Nicholson made the decision after a meeting this week with Matamata-based Sargent, who now employs their regular work rider and strapper Floyd Mullineaux. “Graeme hasn’t had the best of health for a while now and he felt it would be in the horses’ best interests to transfer them to me,” said Sargent, who is set to take delivery of the pair on Monday. “With Floyd now working for me Graeme figured it would be a good move. Floyd has fitted in really well here and Graeme’s happy to know that someone who knows the horses so well will still be involved on a daily basis.”
Sir Slick and Time Keeper have between them won 27 races and more than $2.3 million. Ten-year-old Sir Slick has earned his “iron-horse” label in an amazing career comprising 143 races, 22 wins and stakes of $2,038,177.
His most recent stake-earning performance was third in the Gr. 1 Land Pride Easter Handicap in mid-April, after which he had a further three unplaced runs, the last of them in late May. The Volksraad gelding also finished third in the previous year’s Easter, that immediately after his most recent win, the Gr. 2 Lawnmaster Awapuni Gold Cup in the autumn of 2010. The Easter Handicap also figures prominently on Time Keeper’s record, his 2009 victory in the Ellerslie feature the middle leg of a hat-trick bracketed by The Oaks Stud Manawatu Classic at Awapuni and the NZ Bloodstock Premier at Te Rapa. That three-year-old race was the Stravinsky entire’s most recent win and he has been sidelined since his unplaced run in the Gr. 2 Rich Hill Mile at Ellerslie last New Year’s Day with a hind cannon fracture. “He’s had plenty of time to recover from that injury and Graeme’s very happy with both of them. They’ve been in the paddock all winter,” Sargent told The Informant. “Getting two such proven gallopers is going to be an interesting exercise,” says Sargent, the runner-up on the trainers’ premiership in the past two seasons. “I’m more used to developing my own but I’m certainly happy to be training two horses who we already known can match the best. “Sir Slick is getting on in years and has a fair few miles on the clock, but as we all know he’s an amazing horse who has defied all the theories. That’s what makes him such an interesting horse to be dealing with, so yes, I am looking forward to it.”