Legendary Horse 'Clean Up Joy' Fifth Honorary Race Horse Selection
Aug 15, 2024
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Starting with the 'Cheongdam Axe', the 5th honorary racehorse was selected while the racehorses, which left a unique footprint in the Korean race, are having a peaceful retirement at Anseong Farmland in the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation and Seongisidol Ranch in Jeju.
The main character, who was born in 2011, is a master who mainly worked with assistant teacher Song Moon-gil and rider Ham Wan-sik when he worked as a racehorse, recording a total prize money of 2.1 billion won, a single win rate of 46.9%, and a double win rate of 75.0%. Starting with the 2016 'KRA Cup Classic' Daesang Race, he won the 'Grand Prix' in the same year, and his performance in the Daesang Race was also brilliant. The victory of 'Grand Prix' was a feat achieved in his third attempt, and he proudly ranked first, beating competitors such as Busan's famous horse 'Triple Nine' and 'Power Blade'.
In the 2018 international race 'Korea Cup', he ranked third at the age of 7 when he was a veteran horse. His fans expected him to continue his performance, but his retirement was decided in January of the following year due to his old age and leg injuries.
His race development did not get much attention because all attention was focused on Japan's 'London Town', which won the title with a difference of 15 horses from the second place 'Dolkong' at the time of 'Korea Cup', but the racehorse himself impressed horse fans with his tremendous support and doing his best until the end, as if he had an intuition that the race was his retirement race.
It's called the `clean-up joey' among the officials. Like its name, it has given joy to the socially underprivileged or in need several times, and Min Hyung-geun has consistently practiced good influence based on his special affection for Joy, supporting the construction of the nation's first blind special school for infants under the name of Cleanup Joy at the time of the opening of the Seoul Hyojeong School.
After retirement, 'Clean Up Joy', who had been living as an ornamental horse at the Jeju Ranch of the Korean Racing Authority, will now move to 'Anseong Farmland', located in Anseong, Gyeonggi-do, in search of a new meaning of 'Masaeng' as an honorary racehorse.
An official from the Horse Welfare Center of the Korean Horse Association often compares a person who runs toward the best while looking forward to 'racehorse'. I hope you will meet an honorary racehorse who is spending the rest of your life in peace after living a hard life and have a healing time where you can sympathize with and comfort not only the performance of your active career but also the story of the horse-riding they have created. We will continue to expand opportunities for communication between horses and people through this project and continue to practice the precious values of animal welfare and respect for life" he said.
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