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Dying Wish Fulfilled, Racing Fan Will Be Laid To Rest Sponsored by: Racing fan Nigel Latham, trackside at Morphettville, will be laid to rest in Britain Nigel Latham, 58, died on May 3, just two days after ambulance staff granted his request to stop off at the race meeting while he was on his way home to start palliative care. He saw Craig Williams ride three winners, including a G1 win on Instant Celebrity for which the jockey said Latham had been the inspiration, later handing him his whip as a souvenir. The story became global viral news. Latham, a member of the South Australian Jockey Club who owned shares in two horses, was born in Britain and moved to Australia in 2006. He wanted to be laid to rest in his birthplace. ....
A dying man with just days to live was granted his final wish by paramedics to make one last trip to the races. Nigel Latham, 58, was wheeled in a stretcher to the edge of the track at Morphettville racecourse in Adelaide on Saturday. The horse-racing lover was given a prime spot on the rails just 200 metres from the finishing post, where he watched the races with his wife Julie by his side. Mr Latham was being transported from the Royal Adelaide Hospital to palliative care at his home so he could spend his final days in comfort with family. Nigel Latham, 58, was wheeled in a stretcher across the Morphetville venue in Adelaide, South Australia, on Saturday ....
RSN927 ONE MAN’S CHERISHED FINAL MEMORIES, THE RACETRACK May 2, 2021 9:22 am By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor As horse racing keeps fighting its usual PR battles, highlighted last week by dramatic new measures introduced to protect the status of the Melbourne Cup, a scene unfolded at Morphettville yesterday that stripped racing back to its most irresistible elements. On a beautiful sunny day in Adelaide, a dying man chose the horse races as the setting for some final mortal memories. For most of the day, Nigel Latham lay in a portable hospital bed at the 200 metres mark at Morphettville as thoroughbreds galloped by every half-hour or so, metres away. ....