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Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Clothing - Race Colours, Les Pratt (Expo Stud)
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Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Clothing - Race Colours, Kevin Innes
KEVIN ‘BOOFA’ INNES By Lucy McCormick Kevin was a member of the celebrated Innes clan from Inglewood, in Central Victoria. “I think the first Innes’ came to Inglewood in 1851. My daughter used to say she can’t marry anyone from Inglewood, because she’s related to them all,” says Kevin. ‘Boofa’ is enjoying some well-earned relaxation on the couch after breaking a kneecap six or seven months ago in a track work incident. Not that it seems to be bothering him too much; he’s got plenty of time to keep up with the trots on television. “I do follow them,” Kevin says. “I don’t miss many, and I do have a bet. I like to sit in the chair and drive a race as much as anyone.” With an illustrious career both as a trainer and in the sulky, it’s a safe bet that Kevin Innes is a more than handy ‘grandstand driver’. His name is associated as a trainer/driver with many handy horses, including Lea Sands, Imatoff and Stormy Morn to name a few. Kevin is typically circumspect about his bigger triumphs, however that doesn’t seem to be what interests him the most. “I’ll tell you something,” he declares, doing just that, “I like winning with the horses that were no good. Some people never get a good horse. Imagine that. Luck is a very, very important thing. You have to have luck to buy a good horse at the sales, to get it going, keep it sound, find a race for it, find and owner and get a draw. And they still make a liar of you.” Funny, interesting or quirky stories seem to be of greater interest to Kevin, such as the time he had a strong chance in a standing start race – the favourite in the race being his only worry. “I told the owner it only had a 20-metre handicap – I couldn’t beat it off that,” he remembers. “So I was leading, waiting for the favourite to run past me. Toward the finish, I heard it coming, and it ran straight past all right – minus the driver. He’d fallen out of the cart and I won the race. Just lucky.” The Innes family have always been heavily involved in one sporting pursuit or another – Kevin himself being a champion bike rider of his time. “My Uncle Roy was a good bike rider, so he dared me to have a go. It turned out I was quite good at it as well.” So good, in fact that for many years Kevin was able to make a living from bike riding, riding the ‘board track’ for many years. “We trained hard. Bike riding was very big back then, we’d train and ride three or four times a week.” Kevin’s riding career spanned four Herald Sun Tours, a Warrnambool to Melbourne and a Sydney to Melbourne race, to name a few. “It definitely gets you in – it was long hours,” he muses. “But like anything, horse racing included, you only get back what you put in. We trained hard. I never drank, and I still don’t. I’ve seen that many athletes, great ones too, brought down by alcohol.” Lucky with injury too, Kevin can only remember a sore ankle – as well as the requisite scrapes and abrasions from tumbles on the wooden boards of the velodromes. He still enjoys watching all the big bike races when he can. “You can watch them race all over the world – France, Sweden, Germany. “To be honest I sit up and watch them with my son and we get just as much of a kick looking at the countryside than anything else. It’s so different to when I was racing.” Betting on the bike racing was big in Kevin’s day as well, and some of the bookies Kevin saw betting on the bike racing, he saw at the Showgrounds betting on the trots on a Friday or Saturday night. “Racing was different back then. There would be twelve thousand people at the showgrounds – they don’t have to come anymore, it’s just as easy to watch it on the TV.” Kevin remembers in those days that drivers had to ‘weigh in’ as well – everyone who drove needed to weigh ten stone (just under 65 kilograms). It’s something he remembers fondly. “I know not everyone will.” Kevin won’t be drawn on the subject of favourite drivers, either. “Look. Driving is different now. No disrespect to current drivers, but you had to think a lot more on a three furlong track than they do now on the bigger tracks. You had to drive with brains. And I really believe that good horses make good drivers. The horses are very good these days. Today’s drivers – your Gavin Langs, Chris Alfords – they’re thinkers, and brains will beat brawn every time. The girls are just as good now too. You only have to look at Kerryn Manning.” A garrulous and popular character, Kevin has trained horses for the likes of legendary Richmond player Jack Dyer, and also spent his fair share of time hosting sportsman’s nights, holding his own with the likes of Ron Barassi. On one such night, they had flown in a light aircraft to their destination. During their show, Kevin noticed their pilot, sitting in the front row, laughing appreciatively. There was one problem. He had a beer in his hand, and was consuming it with some enthusiasm. As the night wore on, the pilot became more and more inebriated, and Kevin became more and more disturbed, knowing that this was the same pilot who was to fly them home when they finished. Unbeknownst to Kevin, however, the flight had been cancelled and the pilot hadn’t told anyone, instead deciding to take full advantage of his client’s hospitality. For now, Kevin is happy living in Inglewood with partner Barbara. Son Grant and daughter Carla aren’t far away (both work at the Bendigo Harness track, and Carla has held both a trainer and driver’s licence). His granddaughter, Barclay Sands, was born on the same day of the demise of their star performer, Lea Sands, and may give the biggest hint yet just how important the world of harness racing is to Kevin ‘Boofa’ Innes. Blue with white yolkKevin Innes embroidered on left side chestkevin innes, k innes, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, bendigo, horses, race colours, trotting, pacing, harness racing -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Clothing - Race colours, Ted Manton
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Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Clothing - Race colours, Eric Rothacker, Australian representative colours
Eric Rothacker from Bridgewater, represented Australia at the 1964 World Amateur Trotting Drivers championships in Italyworld champion, amateur trotting drivers, eric rothacker, italy -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Clothing - Race colours, Ivan Collison
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Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Clothing - Race colours, Paddy Glasheen
Reproduction of Paddy Glasheen's colours for the 100th anniversary of Grand Voyage winning the 1920 Boort Cup.Paddy Glasheen's colours were worn by him when driving the Hall of Fame trotter Grand VoyageReproduction of original colours. Blue with red sleeves and green capPaddy Glasheen embroidered on the cuffs. -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Clothing - Race colours, Alice Laidlaw
Alice Laidlaw Victorian Harness Racing Hall of Fame 2019 Alice McCulloch was born in 1894 at Deniliquin, NSW, and grew up on a huge 56,000 acre property at Navarre, “North Woodlands”, where she learnt to ride at a young age. She soon learnt to jump and would jump the farm fences and only went through gates if she was shifting stock. In 1915 Alice travelled to Egypt as a Red Cross volunteer to nurse soldiers injured in the Gallipoli campaign. The young Alice met and married Adam Alexander (Sandy) Laidlaw of Hamilton and lived at “The Hill: in Ararat. Their son Colin, a successful Ararat trainer /driver, was born on 31st March 1923. One of Australia’s most respected and accomplished female riders, Alice excelled at educating, training, riding, driving, hunting and jumping. Alice rode in the Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Tasmania Royal Shows as well as almost every country show in between. She would win the Champion Hack with a horse and then turn around and win the High Jump with the very same horse. Her horse Look Out held the Australian record for a high jump of 7 ft 10 ¼ in at Tenterfield, NSW. She also rode in England. Alice also trained and rode/drove trotters, ridden or in a sulky. She competed and won against the men. In 1929 she won several races with Bazil Bells at country tracks, but authorities refused to grant women licences to drive at the metropolitan track at Richmond so she had to engage men drivers. She won rces against the men at Stawell and Ballarat tracks. Among harness horses that she owned, trained and rode or drove were Mountain Derby, Dane Grey, Wonga Grattan, Plain Grattan, Miss Keewong, and Wong Derby the dam of the Ararat and Mildura Cup winner and later sire, Efficiency. She also trained gallopers, and rode them in races against the men, with a lot of success. Her father owned the 1917 Caulfield Cup winner Lieutenant Bill. Alice Laidlaw died of a heart attack in Ararat in 1947 several weeks after an accident with one of her horses at the Korumburra Show. Her 54 horses were then sold. After she died, the Alice Laidlaw Memorial Trophy for lady riders over 18 at the Royal Melbourne Show was commenced in her honour. This continues.Black and yellow vertical stripes, red sleeves -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Clothing - Race Colours, Bryan Healy
The race colours of the Hall of Fame trotter Maoris Idol. Trained at Marnoo in Victoria's Wimmera by Rick Healy, and driven in all his races by his son Bryan. Maori's Idol (September 1972 – 20 October 2006) was an Australian Standardbred racehorse. He was the first Australian trotter to break two minutes with a time of 1:59.3 on 19 November 1977 at Moonee Valley. Maori's Idol became one of Australia's greatest trotters, with a record 24 successive race victories before placing third in the 1978 Melbourne Inter-Dominion Final. He is still the trotting record holder with 22 wins in a season.He was so superior to his rivals that he may have gone through his career unbeaten had he been placed to advantage by his connections. He was by Ike Frost US (by Adios) his dam was Maori Miss by Grand Monarch. Maori Miss won a heat of the 1966 Inter DominionTrotting Championship and was selected as the Australian Broodmare of the Year in 1977, 1978 and 1979. Maori's Idol older half-brother Maori Monarch won the Victoria Trotters Derby and the Australasian Trotting Championship. Maori Miss has founded a very successful family of her own and is the third dam of Sumthingaboutmaori.bryan healy, ric healy, r healy, maori's idol, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, bendigo, horses, race colours, trophies, trotting, pacing, harness racing, br healy, b healy, r mcd healy -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Clothing - Race colours, J.P. (Jack) Moore
Jack Moore, Maryborough trainer-driver won the first Bendigo Pacing Cup with Kalama's Peak. Among the top class horses that he trained was Richmond Lass who won 35 races and went on to win the 1969 Inter Dominion Pacing Championship. The horse was owned by Fred Miller, from Richmond House, Bung Bong, Victoria and driven by "respected local horseman Jack Moore.Light blue with red starbendigo harness racing club, bhrc, bendigo, horses, race colours, trotting, pacing, harness racing, jack moore, j moore, jp moore -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Lucky Creed
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Lucky Creed raced from 1967 (2yo) through to 1970 then raced in US from 1970 until 1972 then returned to Australia to race until 1973 (8yo). Had a Winning Streak of 24 wins. Inducted into the Queensland Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 2006. Career: 41 wins 11 seconds 7 thirds 88 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, lucky creed, vic frost, vw frost, m wanless, merv wanless, l wanless, v frost -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Lucy Clare
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Lucy Clare raced from 1969 (3yo) through to 1975 (9yo). Career: 15 wins 10 seconds 7 thirds 129 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, lucy clare, m bellman, max bellman -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Lumpy Dean
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Lumpy Dean raced from 1973 (5yo) through to 1976 (8yo). Leading Australian Trotting Stakes Winner in 1974 (All Ages). Career: 14 wins 6 seconds 12 thirds 71 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, lumpy dean, j learmonth, jj learmonth, jack learmonth -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Macaree
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Macaree raced from 1961 (3yo) through to 1968 (10yo). Career: 55 wins 50 seconds 29 thirds 249 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, macaree, d dove, don dove, neville gath, ng gath, r birthisel, bob birthisel, rj birthisel, dv dove, h taylor, howard taylor, t allen jnr, tom allen jnr, b delaney -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Manaroa
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Manaroa raced from 1968 (2yo) through to 1974 then raced in US from 1974 until 1979 (13yo). Career: 52 wins 25 seconds 16 thirds 213 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, manaroa, am harrison, alan harrison, a harrison, n hargraves, nb hargraves, neville hargraves -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Margaret Shannon
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Margaret Shannon raced from 1976 (2yo) through to 1982 (8yo). Had Winning Streaks of 10 and 7 (Twice). Career: 43 wins 23 seconds 11 thirds 131 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, margaret shannon, jim o'sullivan, j o'sullivan -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Meadow Rita
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Meadow Rita raced from 1970 (3yo) through to 1974 (7yo). Career: 17 wins 11 seconds 9 thirds 79 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, meadow rita, gordon rothacker, g rothacker, gw rothacker -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Michael Frost
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Michael Frost raced from 1976 (3yo) through to 1982 (9yo). Had a Winning Streak of 7 wins. Career: 47 wins 39 seconds 29 thirds 203 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, michael frost, jj ilsley, joe ilsley, michael ilsley, mj ilsley, j mooney, d glasheen -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Mighty Thor
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Mighty Thor raced from 1972 (3yo) through to 1979 (10yo). Career: 22 wins 22 seconds 20 thirds 147 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, mighty thor, j dewhirst, john dewhirst, b morse, brian morse -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Minor Derby
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Minor Derby raced from 1946 (2yo) through to 1954 (10yo). Had a Winning Streak of 7 wins. Career: 44 wins 21 seconds 13 thirds 166 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, minor derby, fa smith, frank smith, m lane, max lane -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Miracle Note
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Miracle Note raced from 1968 (3yo) through to 1974 (9yo). Had a Winning Streak of 6 wins. Career: 26 wins 23 seconds 12 thirds 108 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, miracle note, jack shelley, j shelley, jw shelley -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Miracle Time
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Miracle Time raced from 1969 (3yo) through to 1978 (12yo). Leading Australian Trotting Stakes Winner in 1969 (3yo). Career: 15 wins 6 seconds 7 thirds 46 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, miracle time, jack shelley, j shelley, jw shelley -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Miss Hondo
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Miss Hondo raced from 1971 (2yo) through to 1975 then raced in US from 1975 until 1976 (7yo). Career: 48 wins 22 seconds 9 thirds 126 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, miss hondo, w hansell, we hansell, bill hansell, t nolan, terry nolan, s bond, stan bond -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Mister Karamea
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Mister Karamea raced from 1975 (2yo) through to 1976 then raced in US from 1976 until 1978 (5yo). Ran First 2.00.0 Mile by 2yo in Australia of 1.58.4TT on 9 May 1975. Career: 22 wins 11 seconds 11 thirds 78 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, mister karamea, phil coulson, pc coulson, jim schrader, j schrader, p coulson -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Mitchell Victory
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Mitchell Victory raced from 1972 (2yo) through to 1977 (7yo). Had a Winning Streak of 9 wins. Career: 31 wins 7 seconds 5 thirds 51 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, mitchell victory, k newman, kevin newman, kb newman -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Moonstone Bay
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Moonstone Bay raced from 1967 (4yo) through to 1970 then raced in US from 1970 until 1974 (11yo). Had a Winning Streak of 6 wins. Career: 52 wins 24 seconds 14 thirds 161 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, moonstone bay, r cox, ron cox, e jennings, ted jennings, a hood, ae hood, allan hood -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Mount Eden
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Mount Eden raced from 1970 (3yo) through to 1971 (4yo). Inducted into the Western Australia Harness Horse Hall of Fame in 2007. Had Winning Streaks of 7 and 6 wins. Career: 14 wins 1 second 1 third 20 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, mount eden, ej miles, jack miles, g miles -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Murray Mac
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Murray Mac raced from 1970 (2yo) through to 1974 (6yo). Career: 22 wins 14 seconds 8 thirds 71 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, murray mac, n welsh, neville welsh -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, My Gal Sal
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. My Gal Sal raced from 1968 (2yo) through to 1974 (8yo). Career: 34 wins 23 seconds 19 thirds 105 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, my gal sal, j walters, john walters, jc walters -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, My Lesson
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. My Lesson raced from 1964 (5yo) through to 1973 (14yo). Leading Australian Trotting Stakes Winner in 1967 (All Ages). Career: 30 wins 20 seconds 17 thirds 174 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, my lesson, a simons, alf simons, a douglas -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Document - Record, Harness Horse, Nevada Smoke
Stephen Spark compiled horses performance records starting in 1983 on his typewriter. Nevada Smoke raced from 1973 (2yo) through to 1979 (8yo). Had Winning Streaks of 15 and 11 wins. Career: 61 wins 22 seconds 14 thirds 132 starts.Typed document in black and red ink.harness racing, australasian harness racing, horse career, performance records, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, nevada smoke, m evans, max evans, k dempsey, kevin dempsey