Happy Clapper

Happy Clapper (foaled 25 October 2010) is a retired multiple Group 1 winning Australian bred thoroughbred racehorse.

He is also remembered for running second on 5 occasions behind champion race mare Winx.

The horse won his first race as a 4 year old at Sydney’s Canterbury Park Racecourse when ridden by jockey Blake Shinn.

[4] Later that season he was successful in another two Group 1 races, the Doncaster Handicap and the Canterbury Stakes.

After finishing seventh in the 2020 Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Happy Clapper was retired from racing and sent to ex-jockey Mal Fitzgerald who operates a facility for Racing NSW, retraining retired racehorses at Oxley Island near Taree.