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From Facebook to Flemington - he's a bright spark(y) that Nathan Bennett!
It started off with just doing the form for some mates from the cricket club, I’d post the tips and suddenly we had about 2500 subscribers
Bruce Clark
Mar 4, 20245 min read
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Chris Alford - The Puppet Master
Chasing 8000 winner's it's the "puppet" CHRIS ALFORD, who drove his first winner at 16, is the Australasian king of the sulky.
Bruce Clark
Jan 23, 20247 min read
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"There has got to be a yarn in one of them" - my pick of them from 2023!
Bruce Clark has been far and wide in 2023, chasing those yarns for Clark of the Course and Racenet columns. So let's take a look back at the
Bruce Clark
Jan 2, 20249 min read
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Racing - ride like the girls.
The red hot Matildas are on everyones lips, including mine, and now is the time for a seriously massive female push in racing.
Bruce Clark
Aug 15, 20235 min read
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GEN Z. Say What?!
The horseracing industry has been urged to embrace new technology in a bid to attract a new customer - who are they?
Bruce Clark
Jun 13, 20235 min read
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"Dear Punters", a letter to you.
Gidday punters. Look you already know the chances are that you are about to lose, if not doing so already, right! But if you don’t mind,...
Bruce Clark
May 16, 20236 min read
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How Dean Holland went the distance
Flemington Racecourse was indeed a moving place to celebrate the life of jockey Dean Holland today.
Bruce Clark
May 8, 20235 min read
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Paying The Ultimate Price – The Lasting Impact of Jockey Deaths
The death of revered jockey Dean Holland has opened up old wounds for the Goring and Ledger family, still battling their own losses
Bruce Clark
May 2, 20236 min read
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How to RAM home a $4m Quokka!
Bruce Clark explores the story behind the cowboys of Overpass who raced to the narrowest of victories in The Perth Quokka
Bruce Clark
Apr 18, 20236 min read
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AMELIAS JEWEL: “I’m just a fan!”
Speaking to Simon Miller ahead of Amelia's Jewel run in the Perth Quokka. If he was any more laid back he’d be nonchalantly horizontal.
Bruce Clark
Apr 15, 20236 min read
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RACING: A Virtual and Vital Future
How the world's sports leaders embrace technology and innovation is an ever changing fan focussed environment.
Bruce Clark
Apr 3, 20237 min read
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RACINGS DRIVE - Not Just to Survive but Revive !
A boasting industry like racing needs to be revitalised and better “sell” its key sportspeople in order to better engage.
Bruce Clark
Mar 27, 20236 min read
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How All-Star Mile winner reminds us to ‘always look on the brightside of life'
Mr Brightside wins Saturday's $5m All-Star Mile. Bruce Clark finds the story behind the the horse bought on a failed punt from New Zealand.
Bruce Clark
Mar 20, 20235 min read
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Jockeys, the best athletes in the world. So why are so many in hospital?
Jockeys were perhaps the most finely conditioned athletes in the world, a discovery that helped Bruce Clark learn why so many are currently
Bruce Clark
Mar 14, 20235 min read
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THE INEVITABLE to become Tassie's All Star?
The Inevitable's Tasmanian cult following has likely catapulted him into the All-Star Mile field.
Bruce Clark
Feb 27, 20235 min read
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ROBBIE LAING - back from bankruptcy with eternal optimism
Decorated trainer Robbie Laing talks to Bruce Clark about his return to training following a tumultuous period of his life
Bruce Clark
Feb 22, 20236 min read
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Put dirty laundry aside and focus on the real war in racing!
Did you see racing made the front pages in news this week? Handy, when 700 international and local high-powered delegates from 30...
Bruce Clark
Feb 14, 20234 min read
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VALE TONY BOURKE - "The King is gone, well played old mate"
Sadly "The King" has now passed.
One of racing's true gentleman - Tony Bourke - long time The Age racing journalist, but so much more.
Bruce Clark
Feb 7, 20239 min read
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When you start a New Year, make it at Burrumbeet
You can tell you are at a different sort of raceday when the blokes directing the parking are swigging cans of Great Northern before (and...
Bruce Clark
Jan 4, 20236 min read
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OPINION PIECE: Opinions... everyone has them. So here's mine!
Racing, as does any sport, lends itself to rightful discussion, well opinion if you wish, and this is after all an opinion piece.
Bruce Clark
Dec 19, 20224 min read
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