The fighting win of Cambridge galloper Rhinoceros at Caulfield yesterday was the second best birthday present co-trainer Emma-Lee Browne received this week.
Because as much as she loved seeing the three-year-old capture a A$130,000 race her far bigger win came on Tuesday when Browne learned she would get husband David back from Victoria in Australia in time for Christmas after a winning ticket in the MIQ lottery.
David has been campaigning the Browne's small but incredibly successful team in Victoria where they have won six races, three of them by Rhinoceros who left New Zealand an unknown maiden but has now won three races worth with total stakes of A$240,000, effectively meaning he has banked more on his Australian trip that he would for winning the Group 1 Livamol at Hastings on Saturday.
Emma-Lee has not only been in charge of the stables and family back home but trying to secure David a MIQ spot so he could return home and before Tuesday she had almost resigned herself to not seeing her husband until next year.
"But I said to David yesterday, it is my birthday and getting you back is the only present I want," Browne told the Herald last night.