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Piping Lane
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Sep 10, 2026
The industry's challenge to keep its people, steps forward in equine welfare and who gets their name on our best races?
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2:35Brent O'BrienHOST
And he said, the only regret he had is they never really got to work with horses in that context again.
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2:39Brent O'BrienHOST
But, you know, it's 50 years later, because we're talking, actually it was sparked, Sam, by the conversation around Piping Lane winning the Melbourne Cup, believe it or not, in 1972.
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2:49Brent O'BrienHOST
And he goes, in 1972, I was where he was and he backed the winner or whatever else.
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2:54Brent O'BrienHOST
Same conversation.
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28:59Brent O'BrienHOST
I've had a discussion in Tassie.
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29:01Brent O'BrienHOST
I think there's six towns in Tassie where Melbourne Cup winners were born.
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29:05Brent O'BrienHOST
Every town should have a marker to say, You know, this is where Piping Lane was born or this is where Malua was born or whatever else it might be to actually mark the significance of that.
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29:15Brent O'BrienHOST
These races are the historical markers, right? They do, you know, we can talk about them being, commercialized or whatever else, but they still are the historical markers and they still are important for us to acknowledge what's come before.