The death of Flying Spur touched a lot of people, particularly those that looked after him in his final days; he was a great favourite with the staff at Arrowfield.

He was also a popular horse in the Lee Freedman stable when he won the Golden Slipper Stakes; he became the second winner of Lee Freedman’s four successive Golden Slipper Stakes winners.

Flying Spur may have won the Slipper, however, there were still those that had some doubts and not convinced the colt would make a sire, there have been failures before and the race was open to geldings.

He won the Australian Guineas with quite a bit in hand, it was off to Sydney for the All Aged Stakes, this would be the testing material to show if he had a real future as a potential sire.

If there were any doubts about they were soon erased, he would go to stud in the spring to follow, Arrowfield be would his home.

Flying Spur was foaled in 1992, he went to stud as a four year old, he was a magnificent colt winning three Group 1 races, the Golden Slipper Stakes, Australian Guineas and the All Aged Stakes, over 1600 metres.

He became champion sire twice in Australia and once in Ireland, he had 1219 runners for 793 winners, a winning percentage of 65.1 percent, with progeny earnings of $103 million, from 83 stakes winners and 64 stakes placed.

Flying Spur has two sons still active, Magnus at Sun Stud, and Casino Prince at Vinery Stud.

Flying Spur at Arrowfield