All Our Mob (foaled 1989) was an Australian

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who was a four-time

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winner. He was by What A Guest (IRE) out of All Sold (Northern Spring (IRE)-Tickets). All Our Mob, who had always shown plenty of speed but a tendency to wilt over the closing stages, blossomed in the latter half of his four-year-old season, in the autumn of 1994. This campaign featured a number of placings in high-class company, including the

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, and culminated with his first Group One win, in the

Stradbroke Handicap The Stradbroke Handicap is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred open handicap horse race, run over a distance of 1,400 metres at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane in June during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. It is one of the highli ...

. The then Federal Opposition Leader,

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, tipped All Our Mob in the race, and explained that winning was what 'All our mob is going to do' against ‘ Mr Keating’ at the next election. All Our Mob returned at five for a brief spring campaign, which included a second to Schillaci at Caulfield, and defeated Hareeba in the autumn's

Newmarket Handicap The Newmarket Handicap is a Victoria Racing Club Group One, Group 1 Thoroughbred open handicap horse race over a distance of 1200 metres, at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia on Super Saturday in March during the VRC Autumn Racing Carn ...

. Over the next two years, All Our Mob was placed in numerous Group One races, including the

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and

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s and the

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, and recorded further Group One wins as a seven-year-old in the Mackinnon and the All-Aged Stakes.

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Gai Waterhouse's Hall of Fame

Pedigree of All Our Mob 1989 racehorse births Racehorses bred in Australia Racehorses trained in Australia Thoroughbred family 3-d

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