TERRIFIC TRIO

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Ern McQuillan snapped three tremendously talented riders outside the Randwick jockeys room in 1952. On the left is Billy Fellows (34) who three years earlier had won the Melbourne Cup on Foxzami. Fellows always maintained that Foxzami had been a certainty beaten in the VRC Derby the previous year. 

In the centre is the affable Ted Doon (25) born in China, reared in Tumut NSW. A tremendous riding talent who didn't always see eye to eye with the stewards. He was still riding track work at Rosehill well into his sixties. Late in his race riding career Ted won 8 races on Arwon, later to win a Melbourne Cup for Harry White. 

On the right is a "prince among jockeys" Neville Sellwood (30) who died in a race fall in Paris ten years later. 

Selwood won two Melbourne Cups (Delta and Toparoa) and many Group one races in Australia. He won 12 races on Tulloch, and ten on Todman including the very first Golden Slipper.