[AusRace] Kitchin and Higgins

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I'm pretty sure it was during the autumn. A quick google says it was autumn
1972.
Reckons he rode five winners at successive Flemington meetings during that
carnival.

On Sat, 24 Sept 2022 at 14:37, Tony Moffat <tonymoffat at bigpond.com> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [AusRace] Kitchin and Higgins
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> 12 in ’72 Spring?
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> Kristiaan Woodhams in her book/thesis wrote that he rode 46 consecutive
> winners in F&M although this was picked out of 370+ runs at this time. Top
> weights/less than 1200m/<10 runners/fav type of qualifier stats.
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> It was metro and country, (all rides, everywhere) but would have been nice
> to know when it was occurring
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> Bart and Higgins were a useful combination back then.
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> I can remember Bill Collins would often comment on how "Higgs" was
> travelling in the run, his position, wide etc. I guess that was because he
> was usually on the well-fancied but it added to the calls.
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> Kitch would have done well at the VRC Autumn carnival sometime in the
> early 70s when Higgs rode quite a few on the trot/ or many winners over the
> three days? Something like that. (can't be bothered googling it)
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> On Sun, 4 Sept 2022 at 20:49, Tony Moffat <tonymoffat at bigpond.com> wrote:
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> Carey Kitchin loved Roy Higgins.
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> Some days he would wait all day until the last two races then back Higgins
> in those, reasoning somewhat obtusely that if Higgs hadn't whipped one home
> to win by then he would in the last couple, surely, and any price a winner.
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> 'Kitch' was a member of a big Higgins fan club, some of them backed his
> rides to the exclusion of everything, every ride and nothing else, and some
> weren't as dedicated although almost, backing everything and something
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> just in case.
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> Another large group seemed to feed off Higgins, ignoring him and backing
> other runners secure in the knowledge that the prices they were getting
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> better, good, boosted, affected by the simple connection of not being a
> Higgins choice.
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