Bloodstock Desk: Gunsynd heads the heroes.Byline: Bessie Gregory, Rachel Pagones and Amy Bennett AUSTRALIA honoured its new Racing Hall of Fame members on Friday night, when five horses and eight people were inducted at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre The Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre on the Gold Coast Highway in Broadbeach, Gold Coast was opened on 29 June 2004 at a cost of $127 million and is linked by a covered walkway to Conrad Jupiters. in a ceremony attended by around 800 people. The horses were led by 1972 Cox Plate The W.S. Cox Plate is a Group 1 thoroughbred horse race held annually in late October by the Moonee Valley Racing Club in honour of W.S. Cox, the club's founder. The race, for three-year-olds and over, is considered to be the Weight for Age championship of Australasia. hero Gunsynd, popularly known as the Goondiwindi Grey for his ownersO Queensland home. The 1966 Caulfield and Melbourne Cup winner Galilee Galilee (găl`ĭlē), region, N Israel, roughly the portion north of the plain of Esdraelon. Galilee was the chief scene of the ministry of Jesus. , a New Zealand-bred, was also honoured, as were 1932 and 1934 Cox Plate winner Chatham, eminent sprinter-miler Todman and Eurythmic who won the 1920 Caulfield Cup, Sydney Cup and C B Fisher Plate. All three were bred in Australia, as was Gunsynd. Trainers Jack Denham, who handled Might And Power, Geoff Murphy, trainer of W S Cox Plate winner Surround I the only three-year-old filly to have won the race I and Richard Bradfield were added to the Hall of Fame. They were joined by jockeys Ron Hutchinson, Jack Thompson and Pat Glennon, along with New ZealandOs Cambridge Stud founder Sir Patrick Hogan and journalist Bert Wolfe. |
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