TASMANIAN cult hero The Cleaner and his Longford trainer Mick Burles have upstaged Bart Cummings and other racing celebrities to be the cover centrepiece of Racetrack magazine’s 50th anniversary edition.
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Australia’s longest-running and biggest-selling thoroughbred magazine was first published in 1964 and the special 50th anniversary edition, which is also the 2014 group 1 annual, will hit the newstands next Monday.
Racetrack’s Andrew Speedy said the publishers were looking for something special that epitomised the character of racing for the cover of its souvenir edition and believed the rags-to-riches story of Burles and The Cleaner was perfect.
The Cleaner’s bold front-running tactics captured the imagination of the public Australia-wide as he swept to four wins and a third in the group 1 Emirates Stakes during a campaign that netted connections $500,000 in prizemoney.
Along the way, he became the first Tasmanian-trained horse to run in the Cox Plate.
The Cleaner is now spelling and is due to return to racing in the George Adams Plate during the Launceston Cup carnival in February.
He will then return to Melbourne for the Australian Cup at Flemington in March.
