43 MOONEE VALLEY RACING CLUB 42 As we look forward to the Centenary of Australia’s Best Race, we sat down with some of Australia’s best racing, sporting, and media personalities to hear about their triumphs and recollections of pivotal moments in their career – and of course, their W.S. Cox Plate memories LADBROKES COX PLATE CENTENARY Podcast Series “THE VOICE OF THE COX PLATE” When I am calling three race meetings a week in the spring into the summer, we don’t just rock up and work. MATT HILL A good four or five hours of preparation for each meeting goes in first. And I love that time just in the office at home going through all the horses, learning about them, the narratives of each race, doing the videos and the form. I quite enjoy that part of it. You can’t possibly rock up and perform at your best if you haven’t done the preparation prior. Download and listen to the complete series here: I moved across to the cricket academy in Adelaide. Our monthly allowance at that time was $40 a month – that’s what we got paid to live there. Doing the maths in my head I though I’ve got to find a way to turn this $40 into a bit more or I’m not going to get through here. So, I’d sneak down the local TAB on a Monday night, then a Tuesday afternoon, then a Thursday night… Australia's Best Race 4x COX PLATE CHAMPION She had won two Melbourne Cups, she’d won a heap of good races, Australian Cups, Tancred Stakes, and she’d beaten them all up. But Lee Freedman who was training her said the one thing that will define her going forwards when she retires is that to call her an absolute champion, we have to win the Ladbrokes Cox Plate. GLEN BOSS “PUNTER” RICKY PONTING Frank Ritchie Graeme Rogerson Dave & Lance O’Sullivan Craig Bellamy Noel Harris Mark Walker Michael Browell Lizzie Jelfs
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