70’s

Spanish Dancer National Futurity winner 1972   Jeff Collerson – Trained by Rita Merlino who is still going strong and her son Mark is one […]

Presentation of the 1975 Melbourne Cup by the great Roy Higgins to Dynamic Dean. Leading Victorian trainer Paul Hogan, wife Nola and daughter Sandra. Handler […]

Hope we haven’t forgot the Gold Guide and its creator Hall of Famer the late Billy Pearson. In full flight for the Bombers where he […]

Peter Griffen asked me to find a story about the “Unorthodox” training methods of the late Ed Tucker. Ed trained one of favourite Sandown dogs […]

    1976 Melbourne Cup winner Carrington Jade.

  Blackliner 1972 Laurels winner

    Great action shot of Half Your Luck. He won his maiden at the old Eaglehawk track in Bendigo on a Saturday night. That […]

One of South Australia’s best Hall of Famer Doug Payne Jeff Collerson remarked – Am still in touch with Graham Fischer who owned Ascapella Miss […]

You never know what you have got here is a classic photo of Black Diro winning a Juvenile Stake at Sandown in June 1970. In […]

The mighty Half Your Luck still the best box dog I have ever seen. Jeff Collerson remarked – When he raced in Sydney he was […]