Hamilton: My reflections on a champion of the game

20 January 2025
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It was early October, 2022.

I rang Greg Sugars to chat for a preview story a few days ahead of the Group 1 Bill Collins Trot.

A regular preview yarn turned into so much more when Sugars started waxing lyrically about the potential a relatively new stable addition, Just Believe, had.

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