Bruce Clark
"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
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Bruce Clark
Dec 19, 20236 min read
OLLIE: He Had a Gift You Can't Coach
He’s had the visitor’s draw $1.5m Ascot feature named in his honour and if anyone can defy the odds, it’s legendary jockey Damien Oliver
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Bruce Clark
Nov 28, 20236 min read
Tubba Untubbed - 44 years out and now with eye to the future.
After 44 years and shedding 38kg, ‘Tubba’ Williams rides again at Bong Bong Picnic Races
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Bruce Clark
Oct 31, 20234 min read
COX PLATE: The best, but much more than 2 minutes.
The Clark of the Course on the history of the WS Cox Plate and why it's far more than just the Australasian weight-for-age championship.
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Bruce Clark
Oct 25, 20235 min read
MARK ZAHRA: The DJ and the Countselor. The jockey who is most wanted!
Irish horse Without A Fight won the 2023 Caulfield Cup in a memorable day for Mark Zahra, and greatest mate Jamie Spencer.
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Bruce Clark
Aug 9, 20235 min read
AARON BULLOCK: Driven to success
With a bid to win the National Jockey's Title, what's the driving force behind Bullock's drive to break Willie's record?
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Bruce Clark
Jul 27, 20234 min read
RICKY DEBONO - From racing's wilderness to the winner's stall (some 5490 days apart)
Ricky Debono's return from the wilderness at age 37, is a story worth telling - 5490 days between professional wins!
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Bruce Clark
Jul 20, 20235 min read
DANIEL STACKHOUSE: Sofa so good - "I don't like relaxing"
Victoria’s latest premiership winning jockey – that’s Daniel Stackhouse – won the Deane Lester Flemington Cup on Saturday on Mimi’s Award
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Bruce Clark
Jul 18, 20235 min read
King Callow having a Picnic - with his princess daughter
Noel Callow and daughter Stacey have created history at the Gold Coast on Saturday.
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Bruce Clark
Jul 11, 20235 min read
STUMPY: Drugs, jail, god, redemption, but always the horses.
Luke ‘Stumpy' Williams' life journey is nothing if not confronting. Drugs, jail, god, redemption, but always the horses.
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Bruce Clark
May 8, 20235 min read
How Dean Holland went the distance
Flemington Racecourse was indeed a moving place to celebrate the life of jockey Dean Holland today.
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Bruce Clark
May 2, 20236 min read
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
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Bruce Clark
Apr 25, 20235 min read
VALE DEAN HOLLAND: "He'd Never Been In A Better Place"
Dean Holland's fatal death yesterday put an abrupt end to the process of applying to race in Hong Kong. Mentor, James Winks says.
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Bruce Clark
Apr 24, 20233 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Damian Lane gets the spring ride on Amelia's Jewel
Damian Lane will be the new rider for West Australian filly Amelia’s Jewel Lane in a campaign that kicks off at Flemington on September 9
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Bruce Clark
Mar 14, 20235 min read
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
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Bruce Clark
Mar 7, 20236 min read
ZAC PURTON: “I have no fear of failure!”
The 27kg 14 year old kid from Coffs Harbour is one of the world's racing heavyweights.
And with nothing to prove other than endless class e
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Bruce Clark
Jan 31, 20235 min read
800th winner and going strong at 61 years young
Ray, better known as Razor, from the famous Douglas racing family, recorded his 800th win as a 61-year-old on Saturday.
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Bruce Clark
Jan 4, 20236 min read
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...
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Bruce Clark
Oct 18, 20225 min read
‘The worst horse we had': The remarkable tale of Everest winner Giga Kick
Bruce Clark dives into the unknown story behind The 2022 Everest champion, Giga Kick
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Bruce Clark
Sep 6, 20226 min read
SHARON CHAPMAN went to Birdsville to take a photo, but she got far more than she expected!
Sharon Chapman loves taking a racing photograph, but this is her 2nd famous shot - which she yet again didn't know she had captured.
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