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Two viruses have changed the course of Danny Beasley’s riding career.
Beasley was based in Sydney when equine influenza hit Australia in the spring of 2007, and he decided to use that as an opportunity to take his saddle elsewhere
“I’d been up to Singapore for one of the international meetings not long before, and Peter Chadwick was the chief steward and I knew Peter from my apprentice days when I was riding in the SDRA (Southern District Racing Association in NSW) and he said if I ever wanted to come up, just give him a call and I could come up for a short-term contract or something like that,” Beasley recounts.