Darren Wilson is glad he listened to Peter Moody’s advice about sending an unraced colt to the champion trainer’s Queensland peer Kelly Schweida nearly a decade ago.
Moody was about to be rubbed out for six months, and take an even longer sabbatical from the sport, prompting Wilson, who owns one of Queensland’s biggest pork processing companies, to seek a recommendation for who could train his newly purchased colt by Sebring.
The aptly named stakes performer Oink, an $80,000 Inglis Easter purchase in 2015, was trained by Schweida to win six races and almost $450,000 in prize money across four seasons of racing.
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