This month we received a nomination from Jo-Anne Cooper for her father Des – better known as Snow Cooper and his horse Our Exchange, it is a great story and here is what Jo-Anne had to say I would like to nominate my father Des "Snow" Cooper for owner of the month for June 2014.  Since 1997 my father has had considerable success racing horses trained by Peter, David and Richard Jolly. On 21 June 2014 my father celebrated his 85th birthday and he, my sister Janet and I attended at Morphettville to watch his filly, Our Exchange run in a 1,300m fillies and mares handicap. But let me tell you a bit of a story … which occurred on the very same date 11 years ago in 2003 when a gutsy little mare, Our Fame owned by a syndicate of ladies and trained by Peter Jolly, ran through the mud at Victoria Park to score a wonderful win on Snow's birthday!  Helen Jolly, my mother Vivienne and my sister Janet were amongst the winning owners and it was a very happy day for our family to celebrate the win of one of our favourite horses. A few years later, Snow took a share in a lovely mare called Summery trained by Richard Jolly and they enjoyed quite a bit of success with her although injury cut short her racing career.  On her retirement, Summery was offered for sale but unfortunately the market was poor at the time so Kambula Stud (who happened to have Our Fame as one of its broodmares) offered the syndicate a little brown filly by Econsul out of Our Fame as a swap.  She was named Our Exchange! So skip forward to June 2014 and Our Exchange was nominated for a race on the Parks track on the 21st, Snow's birthday.  Could she follow in her dam's hoofbeats?  I could only hope so and waited for Wednesday's acceptances holding my breath!  I was the only one who remembered the great story that could potentially unfold … but alas, Our Exchange was second emergency! I hoped for rain (because she's great in the mud!) and on Friday our prayers were answered.  By Saturday morning Our Exchange was in the field! So … she jumped well, went straight to the front and skipped away from them in the straight, winning with her ears pricked, just like her Mum, 11 years ago to the day! Sometimes in racing things are just meant to be. Thank you to Richard Jolly and his dedicated staff, and to Our Exchange, what a clever girl!