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Laureate was a champion group one racehorse in the early 1940’s. Born on the kismet park stud in Sunbury Victoria in 1938.

Laureate won the 1941 Rosehill guineas and the 1941 AJC Derby with career earning totalling over 7000 pounds.

A photograph of Laureate racing in the 1941 Melbourne Cup exits in the Australian National Sports Museum which is located under the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in the racing memorabilia section.

A weather sealed glass enclosure to preserve a double page newspaper editorial combining stories on the world war and the famous Melbourne cup race of 1941.

The editorial is enriched with invaluable history that is mixed with world drama & local triumph that will be preserved for eternity for public veiwing.

The proud township of Sunbury named a street in his honour when the kismet park thoroughbred stud retired and the land was released for housing development in the 1970’s.

Laureate Close is now regarded as prime and premium realestate in the township.

The kismet park stud is also connected to sporting royalty as Sunbury was also the birthplace of crickets holy grail trophy “ The Ashes”.

In the late 1800’s a game between England and Australia took place at Rupertwood Mansion Estate where bails were burnt and the ashes put into an urn to start an international sporting tradition known as “the ashes”.

The property where this game took place was owned by Sir Rupert Clarke whom was also a board member of the Melbourne Cricket Club.

The land for the Kismet Park Stud was also owned by Sir Rupert Clarke and was leased to a horse trainer named Mr L. Aldridge.

Laureate close is the gateway to a beautiful lake which was once the drinking water storage location for the now heritage listed Rupertswood mansion and the kismet park thoroughbred stud.

Today the lake is a wildlife sanctuary and a place for local families to enjoy which is protected by a federal funded wildlife protection program.