The racing legend had many star performers, including Gatecrasher, Foveros and Bold Monarch
The passing of trainer Herman Brown Snr, who died at the weekend at the age of 93, brings the curtain down on the “old school” of trainers who dominated the sport between 1970 and 2000.
This writer had been racing editor of the Rand Daily Mail for a year when Brown saddled Gatecrasher for the 1975 Durban July. In those days, racing reporters were sent to Durban early to get July stories and, while trainers were not as approachable then as they are now, I managed to get a word with Brown and asked him if he thought I should tip Gatecrasher for the race.Gatecrasher was sensationally disqualified from the race after causing interference to Ormond Ferraris’s runner, Distinctly.
Brown said in an interview that he considered Michael Roberts and Basil Marcus as the two best jockeys who rode for him. Both benefited from his tuition, with Oudtshoorn-born Roberts going on to win 11 SA jockey titles as well as capturing the Jockeys Championship in the UK in 1992.
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