Luk Chin may be turning 80 today but he says there is a good reason he can’t retire from training and, more remarkably, driving in races.
“I still have a goal to achieve — I want a Group 1 winner,” says the popular Waikato horseman.
Chin has been driving winners for four decades and has no reason to be concerned he is losing his touch; last season as a 79-year-old was his most successful yet, with nine driving wins.
All are trotters, all horses he trains, bred and owns, and almost all have the same step and run profile, Chin’s gold and brown colours having led hundreds of trotting races at Alexandra Park and Cambridge since he started driving in 1981.
In the form of his life, Chin says he has no plans to retire from his passion, even though the club of people competing in professional races after their 80th birthday must be one of racing’s smallest.