Bendigo horseman Scott Rains was looking forward to catching up with his brother Sean at Melbourne’s huge Cox Plate gallops meeting this weekend – but instead he’ll be interstate and in the harness racing spotlight.
Rains is one of 10 invited Indigenous drivers to compete in the $20,400 Kari JC Caffyn Plate at Club Menangle, a race named in honour of Jimmy Caffyn Snr, an Indigenous trainer driver who won 11 Harold Park premierships in the 1950 and ’60s.
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