Hamilton: An old marvel set for historic 500th start

03 April 2023
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IF YOU can, stop what you’re doing for a couple of minutes at 2.52pm tomorrow (Tuesday).

Lancelot Bromac deserves your attention.

That’s when the remarkable 13-year-old gelding will step out for an unthinkable and unprecedented 500th race start at Brisbane’s home of harness racing, Albion Park (known these days as “The Creek”).

It is a decade since Lancelot Bromac had his first start.

His driver in tomorrow’s milestone race, Angus Garrard, was just eight years old when “Lance”, as they call him, went to the races for the first time at the now defunct Gold Coast harness track.

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