The Independent - London, January 11th, 2008
Champion jockey and trainer George Moore was the champion jockey given the evocative nickname "Cotton Fingers" for his gossamer touch with half-ton racehorses, as well as being known as Australia's Lester Piggott. Such accolades were well deserved, yet the boy from Mackay on Queensland's north coast was very much more than a source of pride merely for antipodean racing fans. The scale of his achievements when riding for two brief spells in Europe, and then when he turned to the art of training with rich success, marked him down as an exemplar of the turf. Moore ranked alongside Scobie Breasl...
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