Duo has winning feeling

SOME racehorse owners go through life without experiencing a win – anywhere.

Others spend a fortune buying many horses to give them the best chance of success.

Then there’s Andrew Dunemann and Jeremy Schloss.

The former Gold Coast Seagulls rugby league teammates seemingly have a Midas touch when it comes to thoroughbreds.

Take Dunemann, whose first venture into racehorse ownership lasted a fortnight but paid well.

“When I was at the Cowboys I got into a horse through a mate,” said Dunemann, who played with North Queensland in the late 1990s.

“We didn’t pay much and two weeks later I think we got 10 times the money we had just paid out when we sold it to Hong Kong.

“That was my introduction to them and I thought, ‘how good is this’?”

Dunemann had a brief reality check when he and Schloss joined forces as owners for the first time while playing at South Sydney.

“We had horse called Littany, trained by Bob Thomsen, but she couldn’t run out of sight on a dark night,” he said.

There have been few dark nights since then.

They have part-owned multi-millionaires Temple Of Boom and Spirit Of Boom, as well as Angelic Light, a mare who raced at the top level and once beat champion sprinter Lankan Rupee in a Group 2 race at Moonee Valley.

“Talking with racing identities who have been in the game for many years it seems we have been hit with the ‘Lucky Stick’,” Schloss said.

“In this game you definitely need some luck which we hope to bring to our business venture.”