Meet Recife Beach & Amanda
‘Sharky’ retired from racing in March 2017 after a successful racing career winning 4 races at provincial level.
Amanda first met Sharky when working for Kim Waugh at Wyong and strapped him at his last win on a racecourse at Scone on Christmas Day in 2016. After that he raced on for a few more months before retiring and moving in with Amanda.
Sharky has been a successful show hunter, competing at three Horse Of The Years and three Sydney Royals, which are the elite shows on the showing calendar. Their biggest success and proudest moment to date is winning the final of the 2021 Off The Track NSW/ACT Series at the Thoroughbred Spring Fair. But besides collecting ribbons and trophies, Sharky shows just how versatile thoroughbreds really are by helping Amanda with her breakers, letting young kids learn to ride on him, going to race meetings as a companion and also by enjoying some show jumping.
Even though Sharky has been a handful at times, he is the horse that encouraged Amanda to become a racehorse trainer in her own right. He has been by her side for many milestones in her trainers career, like Amanda’s very first metro and stakes runner as ‘a pony’ and has his forever home with her.
The jumping photos were taken a couple of weeks ago during Amanda’s jumping lesson at the gorgeous ‘Falcon Park’ in Central Mangrove, where she was accompanied by her other OTT thoroughbred G’Day Poopsie ridden by jockey Jenni Duggan (who will be featured next). Falcon Park is owned and run by two exceptional horse people in Pip and John Cooper. Pip is a successful FEI dressage rider, level II dressage coach and a coach educator. John is a former multiple australian champion in eventing and has many other titles to his name, he also coached international riders for several Olympics Games, now John is also a fellow Wyong racehorse trainer. Amanda regularly has lessons with her horses at Falcon Park.
Recife Beach *2010 (Sharkbite x Brookton Flash) retired in 2017 with 31 starts for 4 wins and 9 placings and a total of $98,630 in prize money, trained by Kim Waugh at Wyong.
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