55 hurdle victories from 260 rides including three Grand National Hurdles, a Great Northern Hurdle and a Wellington Hurdle which won't ever be repeated by a predominantly flat riding jockey.
No incumbent Hall of Famer would've been brave enough to have 260 hurdle mounts let alone win 55 of them.
Johnson should've been the first HOF inductee not the last and Des Coppins should've been buried with the Friday Flash !
Yeah bloody shame as always a popular meeting, looking through the fields be a struggle to find a winner, Ultimate Counsel tad unlucky last start, no champ but handy draw will help, old boy evidently pick something up over the circuit, let year the Mitchell's bought horses to Westport I think for the first time, I got on to Sinai Sermon, 25s Westport 40s Reefton, done the double, although was the March meeting, always seem to have a win at Reefton, Sinai now been exported to China, was a half brother to Lazarus.
Thought he won the year previous, was unplaced in the race after 3rd in cup, was a good horse, Empire rose won Nz cup after placing in Melbourne cup, I think, was some time ago, she certainly was a good mare, big girl, did she leave any winners in the broodmare barn