Legends The Gallops

Timiuha From Taranaki Reminds Us of the Great Rough Habit’s Weight Carrying Record

by : peterprofitracing
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After seeing our story about Namazu attempting to set what we believed to be a modern day weigh carrying record when by lumping 70.5 kilos in this afternoon’s Tatts Gold Cup in Rockhamption, our avidly parochial Kiwi reader Timiuha from Mt Taranaki has fired a message across the ditch to alert us that in 1994 the great Rough Habit won a race at his home track of New Plymouth with 71.5kg on his back.

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