Trackmen were once stars with a stopwatch

By Max Presnell
March 1 2013 - 3:00am
Race against time … the famous clock tower at Flemington.
Race against time … the famous clock tower at Flemington.

Jack Norman, a trainer who won the Golden Slipper with Reisling in 1965, once pursued Horrie Gollan, the Rosehill trackman, around the course's hosing-down stalls with the intention of skewering him with a pitchfork.

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