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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Racing [mailto:racing-bounces@ausrace.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>norsaintpublishing@gmail.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 4 September 2022 8:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> AusRace Racing Discussion List <racing@ausrace.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusRace] Kitchin and Higgins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>12 in ’72 Spring?</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>It was metro and country, (all rides, everywhere) but would have been nice to know when it was occurring<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bart and Higgins were a useful combination back then.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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)<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, 4 Sept 2022 at 20:49, Tony Moffat <<a href="mailto:tonymoffat@bigpond.com">tonymoffat@bigpond.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Carey Kitchin loved Roy Higgins.<br><br>Some days he would wait all day until the last two races then back Higgins<br>in those, reasoning somewhat obtusely that if Higgs hadn't whipped one home<br>to win by then he would in the last couple, surely, and any price a winner.<br><br>'Kitch' was a member of a big Higgins fan club, some of them backed his<br>rides to the exclusion of everything, every ride and nothing else, and some<br>weren't as dedicated although almost, backing everything and something else,<br>just in case.<br><br>Another large group seemed to feed off Higgins, ignoring him and backing<br>other runners secure in the knowledge that the prices they were getting were<br>better, good, boosted, affected by the simple connection of not being a<br>Higgins choice.<br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>snipped</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>