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Denis Smith THE following, from Jordan Gerrans on the Queensland Harness Racing website, is about the biggest event to happen in the greater Ipswich footprint in many years. What was once considered a bit of a backwater in the harness game, though it boasted a very large hobbyist contingent of owners and trainers, has become a mecca for up and coming young professionals. While the following article highlights an astronomical achievement, the Turpin-McMullen operation will soon be under siege from stables in their own backyard, all in the hands of highly competent trainers and drivers, wh...

Premium Content Subscriber only After losing their entire stud herd in the devastating 2011 floods, a Coominya couple received an unexpected call from an animal pound 95km away in Brisbane - "We have one of your cows".   The call was about Red Gum Danette, a Murray Grey cow from Coominya, that was swept up in raging flood waters that floated her more than 100km from her paddock to Luggage Point on Brisbane's northside. It's the one animal that remained for stud cattle breeder Veronica O'Shea after the perilous 2011 floods, and today, Danette continues to kick about - literally - in her C...