SEELIN’S ALL DAY SUCKER NOT YET A TREAT
ALL day sucker. A trick or treat?
Wyong trainer Wayne Seelin isn’t sure it’s the latter as Halloween approaches – but he is sure of one thing.
His now retired champ and 16 times winner Isorich needed to race on 13 occasions before he broke through for the first of those victories in a remarkable 155-start career.
All Day Sucker (a large lollipop) is a strange name for a racehorse, and Seelin is adamant his seven-year-old gelding won’t get to 13 starts if he doesn’t shape up soon enough.
All Day Sucker is a belated beginner indeed, having just started his career as the majority of others have finished theirs.
The gelded son of Sebring Sun made his debut when sixth to Lucsain in a 900m Maiden Handicap for four-year-olds and upwards at Newcastle on October 6.
He was to have lined up for his second start at Gosford tomorrow, but is a likely absentee with a slight temperature.
“All Day Sucker (pictured) got his name because he is a wind sucker (a behaviour where a horse arches its neck, contracts its throat muscles, and sucks air into the esophagus before blowing it out with a grunt).
“It’s an annoying habit, a bit like a human continually biting their fingernails,” Seelin said today.
“I trained All Day Sucker’s dam Feature and she was the same.”
The Oratorio mare Feature didn’t quite match Isorich’s 155 starts, but she raced 94 times for 10 wjns and 13 placings.
Seelin says All Day Sucker will really have to get on his bike if he is to come anywhere near his dam’s winning tally.
It’s rather unusual for a racehorse to be starting his or her career at seven years of age, but his trainer explained why.
“He had a shoulder injury earlier on, which took six months out of his racing life,” Seelin said.
“Then I didn’t worry about him for another 18 months after that.
“I only started taking him to the track when I had a spare stall in the float.
“He certainly is no Isorich, and I won’t be giving him 13 starts to see if he can win a race.”
All Day Sucker’s stable name is “Teddy” after Sydney Roosters rugby league skipper James Tedesco – and it’s easy to see why.
“He was born on October 6, 2019; the same day the Roosters beat Canberra Raiders 14-8 in the NRL grand final,” Seelinexplained.
“Tedesco scored the winning try in the 72nd minute.
“And All Day Sucker had his first start only two days after the Roosters won another premiership earlier this month (edging out Newcastle Knights 19-18).”
Seelin also has All Day Sucker’s younger brother; a four-year-old who is yet unnamed and of course yet to race.
HOOF NOTE: Isorich raced well into his last season of racing as a 12-year-old (he was placed at his last two starts at home), and is now 16 years of age.
“He is hale and hearty, at the farm, and being looked after well,” Seelin said. “He is in such good shape that you could still put him back into work (horses are not permitted to race past 12 years of age).
“Isorich has been a very sound horse right through, which had a lot to do with the longevity of his racing career.”
STORY JOHN CURTIS, OCTOBER 21, 2026 - PICS BRADLEY PHOTOS
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