Quote Originally Posted by triplev123 View Post
[VVV] Geeze, there's a blast from the past.
I don't know how the Hell it was that Sean managed to avoid scoring a Bute positive with that horse. He used to get a tub of it out & scoop a couple of fingers into it and jam a big blob or two of it into the horse's mouth. Other days, other ways I guess. Harney reminded me a fair bit of Vin Knight. He was different but struck me as a real character.

Too right. Sean was a bit ahead of his time in some ways but he was not short on talent. Vinny I had the pleasure of staying with when I took my former great juvenile, Hanover Schell, down to Melbourne to contest a couple of feature races circa 1980.
Both him and his father made me most welcome and I was gobsmacked when Vin shown me the wad he collected when we saluted at MV .
He had told me his work ( Hanover Schell) at Kilmore was that of a certainty! Being a young and green Kiwi punting was not my priority as at the time I was courting more than one $100,000 offer. Big dough then, and still tidy money now.

I just wish a horse of that calibre had come along a bit later when I knew the ropes better!