King Kinloch Hangs Up His Crown

The chasing career of one of the State’s oldest active greyhounds is officially over after Noelene Holloway retired King Kinloch following his 300th start.

The son of Kinloch Brae and Holloway’s classy bitch Queen Esther, now coming to terms with a career on the couch after five years of heading to the races.

“He’s just been a marvel but once he made it to the big 300, I thought it was time to call it quits,” Holloway said.

“He’s still fit and healthy and wants to race, but he hadn’t been in the same form that saw him consistently rack up placing after placing.”

“I remember Jeff Collerson saying a few years ago he’d never seen a dog run second 50 times. Well, King Kinloch finishes with eight wins, 82 seconds and 58 thirds. It’s just been an incredible career of longevity and consistency.”

‘Bingo’, as he’s known around the kennels, amassing more than $70,000 in prizemoney during his chasing chapter.

And coincidentally beginning and ending his career on December 20 [replay below of his final start], exactly five years apart.

“Isn’t that Amazing and a bit of a miracle that he began and ended his career on the same date,” Holloway added.

“I haven’t had a dog run 200 starts let alone 300 but this guy just loves to race. Some people have said over the journey “it’s time for me to let him go and live on the lounge” but I can tell you he’s not happy being retired.”

“As soon as I let him out, he still runs to the gate because he wants to go to the track. And I park the van in the yard during the day and he just climbs in and sits in his spot behind the passenger seat. He only gets out if I make him.”

Holloway Well aware King Kinloch retires as no Group 1 winning champion, but she's still happy to gush over the near seven-year-old as his “Amazing run” comes to an end.

“I think he was very smart runner and could pick his gaps in a field and find the rail pretty Well. I think that’s the reason he had so many starts, he was very rarely in trouble,” she said.

“And after every race he’d come straight to me in the catching pen, always very proud of himself. I bred him out of my own sprinter Queen Esther as Well so that’s always special and he’ll spend his time now going between the kennels and the house. He’s certainly earned that.”

King Kinloch finishes up with a race record of 300: 8-82-58 and $72,070 in earnings.