George Willmot New (1883-1963) began as a jockey at the age of 14 and then turned to training horses. By the 1930s he was the owner of stables on Totara Road, adjacent to the Awapuni racecourse, on part of the original ‘Highden Estate’. He had many successes and retired in 1950. Stable boys (from left): Back Row - Gordon Bruce; Jim Fagan; Clem Bowry. Front Row - Stuart Waddell, Bub Waddell, Sandy Ewan.
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George New’s stable boys
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- IMCA Digital Archive
- Date
- circa 1948
- Digitisation ID
- 2010BD_IMCA-Digital Library_004481
- Held In
- IMCA Digital Archive
Creation
- Created By
- Unknown
- Place
- Palmerston North
Object rights
- License
- Attribution + NonCommercial
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