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    THE JOCKEY TOM HALES

    Nov 30, 2020 6 minutes

    Tommy Hales who was to become one of the first jockeys to be inducted to the Hall Of Fame was to use a 3 pound saddle on Grand Flaneur in the Cup and had carried some 28 pounds of lead to make up the additional weight in the Derby a few days before. Hales was reported in a Melbourne newspaper as saying that he considered Grand Flaneur the ideal racehorse who “would go as far as you wished and stay as long as you wanted him.”

    Hales was born in Portland, in the western district of Victoria in 1S47, but went to South Australia as a boy, living in Penola. His family tried to have him learn as a blacksmith, but after an unsuccessful stint he tried his hand at saddlery. Hales wanted to be a jockey, and in defiance of his family’s wishes, he pursued his dream riding his first winner, Euclid in a match race. Hales lived for a time at Mr. Edward

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