Trainer Rick Hore-Lacy’s Rocky Racing Ride and indomitable spirit

Rick Hore-Lacy, law-student-turned-horse-trainer who became an Aussie legend in the sport of horse racing. The outspoken larrikin caused a furor in the Elite horse racing industry by breaking conventions with his vociferous opinions and infamous actions.

Mumbai, India – June 6, 2018 /PressCable/ —

There have been many phrases and countless words to describe Rick Hore-Lacy throughout his near 40-year stint as a racehorse trainer. Some of them paint him as inspired in a sport built around repetition while others portray him more as a larrikin loner who repeatedly got lucky.

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Luck is a word that plays a starring role in Hore-Lacy’s autobiography Foul Luck and Outrageous Fortune.

As a racehorse trainer, owner and buyer, he often swung between fortune and poverty. The fortune was generally of his own making via his remarkable eye for a horse and his dedication to preparing them to race the best way he could.

Time and time again he would find himself in financial peril and each time he would be saved by his eye. No trainer of more than 20 Group 1 winners can make stallions the calibre of Redoute’s Choice, Canny Lad, Spartacus, Clay Hero, Toorak Toff, Dash For Cash and Kenny’s Best Pal purely on the back of an extended lucky run.

His entry into racing came via a large slice of luck. In 1974 – the afternoon Battle Heights won the Cox Plate – Hore-Lacy won $144,000 on the quadrella. He tells the story of how he noticed on leaving the TAB that day that he’d made a mistake on his ticket so went back to correct it.

The average price of a house in Melbourne at the time was $25,000.

Luck played a role in his plummets to poverty and bankruptcy through untimely investments and an over-enthusiastic approach to buying yearlings. This ill-placed eagerness to buy young horses, most often on credit, led him to be banned from most of the major horse sales throughout the country.

Rick Hore-Lacy liked descriptions that he was a ‘visionary’, but he was self-effacing enough to recognise that he might appear otherwise to some people.

He begins his autobiography with a fast-paced and, at times, swashbuckling account of how both sides of his family made its way to Australia.

It sets the scene for a rollercoaster ride through Hore-Lacy’s life. He will never be considered for racing’s Hall Of Fame, but few of his generation could boast they had the same impact, on and off the track, on thoroughbred racing in this country.

NOTE: ‘Foul Luck and Outrageous Fortune – a candid tell-all by a larrikin legend of racing’, will be in books stores in the coming weeks but is now available through www.rickhorelacy.net

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