Interesting.

Marshall was the Sydney-based trots writer for The Australian when I met him at Harold Park in 1974. Unbelievable now that an 18 year old was THE trots writer for our national daily broadsheet. More unbelievable that The Australian actually wrote anything about the trots. I used to buy it every Friday morning to get his write up for that evening's Harold Park meeting. That, and radio race broadcasts, was the only way a young Melbourne enthusiast could find out what the trots game was about in the mysterious Sin City.

Marshall was an amazingly talented young bloke who later published The Australian Standardbred and, I am told, was the man behind the Hair Testing Laboratory. A natural salesman, for sure.

It will be very interesting to follow his case.