Gai Waterhouse’s are as immaculate as her race-day couture. The brutalist architecture of Chris Waller’s operation matches his ice-cool professionalism.
But the shopfront sign here, in Manning Street, Warwick Farm, gets straight to the point: "GD HICKMAN. RACING STABLES. EST. 2003". "I’m just being a celebrity again, mate," he says down the line. "But there’s no trailer. No drinks. They’ve given me nothing again…""Goes all day, mate," he says, before adding: "Yes, I’m a battler. Come from the bush, kicked off here in Sydney, worked at Crown Lodge for nine years, had a couple of good horses, got enough to get a deposit together to build all this … I’m a battler.
He battled in the bush, buying some horses for as little as $200 and trying to turn them into superstars. He and Erika worked under Colleen Underhill at Quorrobolong, near Cessnock, and then, in 1990, they decided to try their luck in Sydney. "It’s a lot when you haven’t got it," Hickman says. "It’s a lot when you have to go out and sell it. It was one of the dearest horses I’ve bought. People said, ‘You don’t usually pay that much for horses so it must be a good one’. But he didn’t take that long at all to sell him."
AWebsterAGE How many times does this article need to say battler? A bit optimistic of the guy to think this is going to improve public opinion on the horse racing industry. It won’t.
AWebsterAGE Not the time for feel good horse racing stories...........there's a massive appalling black cloud hanging over this industry!
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