Takeover
Target - racehorse - Newmarket Handicap winner
 Takeover
Target was foaled in 1999 and was by Celtic Swing out of the
mare Shady Stream (by Archregent)
From
41 lifetime starts the gelding had 21 wins, 6 seconds and 4 thirds
and won a massive $6,357,561 in prize money - not too shabby for
a horse that cost $1250.....oh, and $125 for GST.
Owned
and trained by Joe Janiak, a Queanbeyan taxi driver, his main
wins were in the 2006 Newmarket
Handicap, 2006 Lightning
Stakes, 2004 Salinger
Stakes, 2007 Doomben
10000, and 2009 Goodwood
Handicap, 2008 Winterbottom
Stakes as well as the King's Stand Stakes in the UK and also
won races in Singapore and Japan.
He
was retired July 2009 due to a cracked cannon bone suffered in
the July Cup at Newmarket.
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