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When Zac Spain returned to scale as a Group 1-winning jockey at Caulfield on Saturday aboard Streets Of Avalon after the running of the C.F. Orr Stakes, it signified how far the 24-year-old had come.
Having grown up in Darwin, Spain moved to South Australia and first sat on a horse at the age of 15. He would learn to ride at TAFE in Adelaide and his first race ride would come two years later at Streaky Bay, some 700 kilometres west of Adelaide. I grew up in Darwin and Gary Kennewell used to take a lot of horses there for the Carnival, Spain revealed in an interview on
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