Fake Left
By Cam Fella from Madam Madusa
The Standardbred stallion Fake Left came to Australia after an outstanding racing career in the United States of America. He stood at Egmont Park Stud at Biddeston and Alabar Bloodstock at Echuca. Foaled in 1989, Fake Left won the prestigious 1992 Little Brown Jug Series in Delaware and Ohio. This remarkable stallion revolutionised the Australian Standardbred breeding industry, breaking record after record. At the time of his premature death in February 2001, he was represented by five crops to race for winners of $7.25 million.
Since the first progeny of Fake Left began racing in 1996, he has been named Champion Sire in many categories. He was named Leading Australian Sire and Leading Juvenile Sire for the 1999-2000 seasons and the 2000-2001 seasons. The progeny of Fake Left are noted for their speed and they show all the courage of their sire. In his first crop, he sired Masked Crusader, the Australian Pacing Gold Colts winner, and Sheza Fake, winner of the Bathhurst Gold Tiara Final. Lightfoot Lady was the fastest two-year old pacer in Australasia in 1997-98. The three-year-old filly Cherry Cheer won the 2001 Australian Oaks and the Victorian Oaks and Five Star Comfort finished third in the Australian Oaks after defeating Cherry Cheer in the Queensland Oaks. Fake Left sired both champion pacers and trotters. Bonbillie Fella won the Redwood Two Year Old Trotters Classic, defeating some of the best young horses in Australia and New Zealand.
Part owners Mark and Sue Lichtwark, Kevin Seymour, Peter Volk and John Humphreys said that they had been privileged to own a stallion like Fake Left.