'This kid will be mixing it with the game's best'

Updated October 25 2014 - 12:16pm, first published 8:39am

THE late great jockey Roy Higgins was a champion in the saddle, winning two Melbourne Cups and countless other top races. His rise to glory started in Deniliquin, where his love of horses was born when he was a boy. In a new biography, Patrick Bartley tells of the hoop’s formative years.

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