The wave of success from Australia’s female jockeys, including Saturday’s clean sweep of all races at Morphettville, owes much to the hard-won gains of those trailblazers who came before, writes Matt Stewart.
Consider that racing’s very own ‘misogyny speech’ was delivered less than a decade ago at Flemington and then have a look around.
Consider not-so-recent racetrack history, where white lines separated the sexes and racing was rough and rugged and known as The Sport Of Kings; and think about what occurred at Morphettville last Saturday.
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