Lyell Creek

Lyell Creek is Australasia’s greatest ever Standardbred trotter. Also known as “Creek The Freak”, he had 113 starts for 56 wins, 15 seconds and 11 thirds, including an Australasian record 15 Group One wins.
[1] His fastest mile rate was 1.52.4 and he won $2,950,224 in stake money, which is an Australasian record for a trotter. Lyell Creek won the 2000 Inter Dominion Trotting Championship Grand Final at Moonee Valley in Melbourne, taking home $295,000 for his efforts.
[2] He also won New Zealand’s two biggest trotting races, the Dominion Handicap and the Rowe Cup, both on three occasions. He also raced in Europe and campaigned extensively in North America, where highlights included a win in the Su Mac Lad and a close second in the Titan Cup.

A notable achievement of Lyell Creek was that he won 34 of his 37 starts before his extensive Northern Hemisphere campaign, with his only defeats being his debut (over a year before his second start), when pulled-up at his fourth start and when running third in the 2000 NZ Trotting Free-For-All.