Most owners and trainers who come away from the sales with a pacing bred yearling, rarely give a thought to the possibility that it might trot. Many potentially good trotters have gone undiscovered, because they’ve never been tried at the alternative gait.
CHEERIO CALL TO A HARNESS RACING GENTLEMAN
So sorry to learn that Victorian trainer Bruce Morgan is a patient in the Royal Melbourne Hospital, after suffering a stroke at his Bendigo stables last week. The esteem in which this man is held by all sections of the Victorian harness racing industry, was acknowledged in the most fitting way in 2015. He was awarded the Gordon Rothacker Medal, named after a doyen of the sport, and a role model to a young Bruce Morgan in the 60’s and 70’s.