By Tony McMahon
Queensland’s “I’ve been everywhere” horse Fab’s Cowboy will be out to keep his perfect record on Gladstone’s Ferguson Park racecourse intact when he contests the club’s feature race on Saturday.
Fab’s Cowboy will be contesting the 99th race of his career when he will run in the 1608-metre Iron Jack Gladstone Cup with 65.5kg on his back.
However, per medium of Sunshine Coast apprentice jockey Jake Molloy’s 4kg allowance, the old cowboy will come into the Cup with a featherweight for him being 61.5kg.
That’s mere peanuts for Fab’s Cowboy, who has been handicapped with as much as 66.5kg during his long career that has earned him the remarkable CV of 40 wins and 20 placings.
His trainer, the now Moranbah-based Bevan Johnson has done a magnificent job in managing Fab’ s Cowboy’s career as he has utilised the invaluable claiming allowances of apprentice jockeys to lessen the burden on the horse.
Fab’s Cowboy commenced his winning ways at Gladstone on June 4, 2016 at his seventh start in a race.
In six subsequent starts on the sand track there, he is unbeaten winning three races at Ferguson Park in 2016 and one in each of the subsequent four years.
Fab has also won seven races on the dirt at Charleville, while his favourite track must be on the loamy soil at Roma where nine times he has won.
Over the years, the old boy has also scored at Barcaldine, Blackall, Charleville, Clermont, Cunnamulla, Emerald, Goondiwindi, Bluff, Bundaberg, Gympie, Wondai and Miles.