Millers just fourth family to have brother and sister drive at same Gloucester Park meeting

05 December 2017 | Alan Parker
Hannah Miller in action in the USA

Hannah Miller in action in the USA

When American brother and sister Marcus and Hannah Miller get into the cart on Friday night they will become just the fourth brother and sister to drive at the same Gloucester Park meeting.

They will join Greg Kersley and his sisters Kellie, Kate and Karen. It was some 11 years ago that Greg and Kate Kersley last drove at the same Gloucester Park meeting.

Also in this unique group are Rick and Lisa Smith who last drove at the same Gloucester Park meeting some 30 years ago.

The only brother and sister combination currently driving in Perth are Vance and Tonia Stampalia and they in fact both won a race at the same Gloucester Park meeting on 31st March 2012.

It was a midweek meeting and Tonia won with No Future and Vance with Governor Art.

Greg and Kellie Kersley are the only other brother and sister combination to win at the same Gloucester Park meeting and they achieved the feat on 9th October 1989 when Kellie won with Rite and Greg with Mystic Cove. Again it was a midweek meeting.

Kellie Kersley won a heat of the 1996 Perth Inter Dominion with champion mare Norms Daughter to become the first female driver of an Inter Dominion heat winner in Perth.

Kellie (95 Perth winners) and Kate (94 Perth winners) still head the list of most successful drivers in 107 years of racing in Perth with current driver Lauren Jones in third place with 74 Perth winners.

Lauren will  be driving in the Retravision Lady Drivers Challenge at Gloucester Park on Friday night.

Hannah Miller will drive the Bernie James trained Parisian Partygirl in Race 3 the Retravision Invitation Ladies Drivers race at 6:22pm while her brother Marcus will be driving the Ross Olivieri trained Wrappers Delight in the Sky Racing Drivers Series Heat 3 which is Race 2 at 5:52pm.\

He will then drive again in the Slater Gartrell Drivers Series Heat 4 at 7:22pm behind the Nathan Turvey trained Ohoka Darcy.

 

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