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RSN BEHIND THE MIC: 20 QUESTIONS WITH DEANE LESTER
May 31, 2021 4:28 pm
Leading form analyst and RSN927s very own Deane Lester details his lifelong involvement in Racing in a must-read edition of RSN’s Behind The Mic: 20 Questions Series.
What first got you interested in Racing, and at what age?
I was pretty much born into racing my parents ran a stud farm, so I was surrounded by horses right from the beginning.
My earliest race-day memory was going to the
Cox Plate in 1972 when
Gunsynd won as a four-year-old. Roy Higgins rode him, and he was a family friend of ours.
In a perfect world James McDonald wouldn’t decide whether to ride Verry Elleegant or Zaaki on their Cox Plate until after their barrier trials on July and August but again, that won’t be the case.