Rough Habit

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Rough Habit
Sire Roughcast (USA)
Grandsire Noholme (AUS)
Dam Certain Habit (NZ)
Damsire Ashabit (GB)
Sex Gelding
Foaled 2 December 1986
Country New Zealand
Colour Bay
Owner Joe Battiston
Trainer John Wheeler
Record 74: 29-16-7 [1]
Earnings A$3.89 million [1]
Major wins
Queensland Derby (1990)
Stradbroke Handicap (1991 & 1992)
Doomben Cup (1991, 1992 & 1993)
Captain Cook Stakes (1992)
All-Aged Stakes (1992 & 1993)
AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes (1992)
Caulfield Stakes (1994)
Awards
New Zealand Horse of the Year (1992 & 1995)
New Zealand Racing Hall Of Fame (2012)
Honours
Rough Habit Plate at Doomben Racecourse
Last updated on 3 August 2011

Rough Habit was a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won 11 Group One (G1) races on both sides of the Tasman, and won New Zealand's Horse of the Year Award in 1992 and 1995.

He was foaled on 2 December 1986 and sired by Roughcast (USA) out of Certain Habit (NZ) by Ashabit (GB). Certain Habit was the dam of 11 named foals that were produced in Australia and New Zealand, producing 2 stakes winners in Rough Habit and Citi Habit. Rough Habit was a bay gelding with a distinctive white blaze trailing over his near-side nostril.

Racing record

Rough Habit was trained by John Wheeler, and had nine campaigns in Australia, from three to eight years of age. He won Group One races in Sydney and Melbourne and won six of his 11 Group One races at the Brisbane winter carnivals, where his wins included the Queensland Derby, two Stradbroke Handicaps, and a record three Doomben Cups. Rough Habit won 21 feature races[1] from 1,400 to 2,400 metres, on wet tracks and dry, and was narrowly beaten by fellow New Zealander Solvit in the 1994 Cox Plate. Later in the season, Rough Habit won the O'Shea Stakes, in Brisbane, at his final start in Australia.[2]

Honours

In retirement, Rough Habit appeared in a set of stamps issued by New Zealand Post in 1996 with fellow champion thoroughbreds Kiwi, Bonecrusher, and Horlicks, and the harness racing champions Blossom Lady and Il Vicolo.[3]

In 2012, Rough Habit was inducted into the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame at a special awards ceremony in Auckland.[4]

The Brisbane Racing Club holds the Group 3 Rough Habit Plate for three-year-olds, which is run at set weights, and named in his honour.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rough Habit's career
  2. ↑ ASB - Rough Habit (NZ) Retrieved on 2009-6-7
  3. ↑ Set of postage stamps featuring Rough Habit (Top right - 80 cents)
  4. ↑ "Hall Of Fame spot for Rough Habit". Taranaki Daily News. 3 March 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2012. 
  5. ↑ "Rough Habit Plate". Pro Group Racing. Retrieved 3 August 2011. 

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