Maoris Idol - Youtube

Great stuff Halyer! I put a thread up ages ago and was told that "all" the old footage around

that era had been lost in a fire

Moonee Valley harness started in Oct 1976 yet one of his wins is labelled as being at MV in 1975 ??

He WAS ahead of his time,  TK

Didn't the end of the showgrounds and the start of MV overlap??

Yes showgrounds finished in Dec 1980 . MV & Showgrounds from Oct 76 till Dec 1980 mainly MV towards the end with Showgrounds having about 11 meetings in 1980

What he did in Qld was something that trotters will never do again. He beat horses the equivalent of Blacks A Fake Mr Feelgood Im Themightyquinn etc. A freak and a once in a lifetime horse

Talking of the Showgrounds, the same bloke posted this of a race there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XICQjEGPoXY&feature=channel&list=UL

Never knew they used to race the other way in QLD.

It was not in my Time was The Horse that good or nothing around?
Amazing Wins. Id never Pot Champ?

I started getting Involved when Another Bart, Rivelea Jack, Almeata Boy, Rufus Young Blood. And Chris Gleason where going around.
Id take my $20 sneak in where the horses entered every week. Box Quinellas 3 horses some times 4 for 50c.
Every week for years.

Also got in trouble one time when i placed some Large Bets for somebody else when i was 16 and i never gave them in. They had me in a Room for an hour saying i was going to Jail tried everything to get me to say who i placed the Bets for. I said it was for me.
Ill tell you the name of the Horse Diggers Neptune 1st Start at the Valley.
Got a very nice sling out of it as well.

Lloydy

How to get one beat when you have 100 metres (or yards in those days) on the field. Still the greatest horse I've ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xZ24D8-2wM

Yep--B healy-the only person on Earth that could have lost on "The Champ..Amazing film clip.Not sure how you got it. I know all the Channell Seven stuff has been burnt to a cinder. Poppy and Maori's Idol,and Gammalite  clips never to be seen again.Sad .. But obviuosly there are still the odd clip floating around.A few interstate clips, and others.But most are in ashes..

Surely Must of been paid to Drive it like that.
Slaughtered it

i read a story years ago that brian healy
was so nervous he couldn't put his shoes
and socks on.

you gotta forgive a guy a bad drive if his
mind was in that sort of frame