Cousin Casey with popular comedian Barry Hilton inset (Horse Picture: Wayne Marks)
Passionate owner Ravi Naidoo is in horseracing chiefly for fun and he came up with the imaginative idea of employing South Africa’s most famous “cousin” i.e. Barry Hilton, to promote his Mauritzfontein-based stallion Cousin Casey.
The Vercingetorix colt’s career, in which he won one Gr 1, two Gr 2s and a Listed race as well as being runner up in four Gr 1s, was no laughing matter.
However, Barry Hilton’s promotional video has had South African racing fans in stitches since it was released on Thursday.
In horseracing there is of course a lot of line breeding and inbreeding.
Barry thus has a lot of leverage to talk about Cousin Casey and the thoroughbred cousins of this first season stallion and also the cousins he is going to produce.
