Image courtesy Steve Hart - Robert Sangster and Millie Fox.
Steve Hart came up with this one recently - a snap of two of the most influential people in Australian racing in the 20th Century.
Robert Sangster made his fortune when he sold Vernon’s Soccer Pools to Ladbrokes in 1988 for 90 million pounds, which enabled him to create a thoroughbred empire.
His horses won 27 classics and more than 100 Group 1’s in the northern hemisphere. He had a huge stake in Australian racing, winning many of our major races including the Melbourne Cup with Beldale Ball.
With him is Millie Fox, with whom he and Bob La Pointe forged a business relationship to establish Nebo Lodge at Rosehill - a state of the art training complex which has long succumbed to the onslaught of development in the Parramatta region.
Brian Mayfield-Smith trained successfully for the triumvirate through the eighties into the mid nineties when he quit racing to seek a new life in Africa.
Robert Sangster and Millie Fox have both passed on, but the mark they made on Australian racing is an indelible one.