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lived a stones throw from rex''s paddocks as a kid...was in them almost daily ..how he put up with us i dont know even 60 odd years later i still remember most of his horses names ...another bit of the past gone ...rip rex

so sad..will certainly miss his great sence of humour

yes was ken wadsworth's father bob who had a few gallopers over the years also owned top pacer in the 70's in captain harcourt ,ken died young with testicular cancer i recall

shorty actually regarded so lovely as his first 'unoficial winner'' nelson 1965 i think ridden by brian anderton think he was under 21 at the time n his father bill was actual trainer best winner would have been killjoy who won the stewards hp also mr richmond, battle joy, the yapper, baccalaurus, wom pom etc

your so right there leo ...specially your desription of him ...you rode for him many times back in the day

some of you may remember john ''shorty'' healey a sucessful trainer in nelson from the mid 60"S to 2000s' ..he passed away on saturday

remember baghdad note winning the whyte mile in 1970 ..the year he won the melbourne cup

holy hell the Obrien case apart some of those other cases on there make for sobering reading when your not used to it!

remember trying to listen to races in dunedin on their local radio station from here in nelson (pre radio pacific) up the top of princess drive (a high point)car aerials right up fading in and out (usually at the wrong time) hell you wouldnt bother today would you n 3 division races ..reefton definity had one at their 1975 meeting ..remember a false start there at that one at the top of the straight most went round n had verry little room to get between the gates n that bloody great macrocarpa tree up there pretty sure colada won the rerun as he only went 200m ..fun times

agree with brookby song n just wondering if the other galloper is yahabeebe?

that was your cue VS ...fanfare for the common man maby?

damn strait there leggy working on the beach was always special n as much an uplift for the rider as the horse

yous have been reading too much south auckland facebook posts ae bro

yeah ''Were on the road to nowhere''

won impressivly for d k weir today at benalla

Best sports headline ever came out of that one too ''The shit hits the fan'' classic!

ah yes Game filmed him winning the harcourt stks beating Bardall too from memory it was his first at trentham too

i have a super8 film of lilt winning the fitzherbert hp at trentham as a 2yo also lj carston finishing 2nd behind sharivari in the telegraph...musta been the consolation prize lindsay lol

verry sad ..grew up in southland watching him ride a real gent and would talk to anyone r i p bob

good post(s) i recall neville cowles getting fair catapulted off dhow in the final 50 yards or so in the manawatu sires when looking likley to run a place

wow thanks for posting that hashtag (good name too) cheers

nup didnt work ..bugger

2016-05-302016-05-30photo of kumai(bj anderton) beating palisade(jr dowling) at wyndham oct 1964 a week before they were 2nd n3rd in nz cup so thats no 2 and 11 taken care of....being teckamalogicly challanged i hope this works ..also have a few others of the top early to mid 60s ones in the south but ill see how this goes first

well thats the biggest load of rubbish iv seen in a long time!