This one will touch a few heart strings. Steve Hart located this lovely picture of the late John Marshall with one of his all time favourites, Campaign King. John rode Campaign King fourteen times for eight wins.

The Australian racing industry was stunned by the loss of Ken Russell who lost his life in a freakish race fall at Rosehill on October 9th 1993, aged 42.

We’re unable to comprehensively identify the three gentlemen with the jockey in this Bradley Photographers photo from the 1960’s - I believe their surnames were Ryan, Holmes and Clavelle. We can however officially identify the jockey as Max Lees whose brief but notable riding career was halted by increasing weight in the 1960’s.

Veteran racing people will recognize Doug Weir, a jockey who struggled in the early part of his career before linking up with trainer Jack Denham who took him to another level.

Champion jockey Neville Sellwood made one of his rare country excursions to win the 1960 Grafton Cup on Castle Burn for Sydney trainer Morrie Anderson.

From the Bradley Photographers archives we’ve stumbled upon this gem of Cecil “Skeeter” Kelly, a legendary NSW bush jockey of the 1950’s and 60’s.

I was delighted to meet Nicole Ward at Ascot (WA) on Railway Stakes day. Nicole is the granddaughter of former champion jockey Arthur Ward, who died five years ago at the remarkable age of 94.