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Matt Hill names his favourite horse of all time
SEN • August 22nd, 2025 12:19 pm
Matt Hill has revealed Better Loosen Up is his favourite race horse of all time.
The 1990 Cox Plate winner claimed a special place in Hill's heart two years later making history overseas.
The champion gelding, who scored 17 wins from 45 career starts including eight Group 1s, was named Australia's Horse of the Year in 1991 and was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2004.
Better Loosen Up won $4.7 million in prizemoney before injury ended his career in 1993.
"Better Loosen Up is my favourite horse of all time," Hill told SEN's Clippers and Tippers.
"We crowded around the lounge room to watch the race in Japan in 1992, it was like watching something from planet Mars.
"We’d never seen a race from Japan before let alone an Aussie taking over the world and winning it. He started all this. I loved him."
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