Tragic loss of 'larger-than-life' racing identity
Horses Tony McMahon Premium Content Subscriber only The recent passing (April 11) of John Cooney 82, one of Rockhampton's most successful racehorse trainers over the past three decades has evoked countless memories. John Cooney was one of those larger-than-life racecourse characters, a graduate of the old school of horse trainers, horsemen and cattlemen. Mention of his name and immediately a dossier of top-class racehorses that he trained so successfully spring to mind. Such names as the prolific, and I mean prolific, winning sprinters Bay Poet and Go Ga...
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