Roy Higgins: Australia's Favourite Jockey

Everyone loved Roy Higgins. A warm and genuine character with a great sense of humour, the boy from the bush was known as ''The Professor'' for his freakish ability to read the track and his easy eloquence.
Higgins'' racing record was extraordinary. He rode Bart Cummings'' first Melbourne Cup winner, Light Fingers, in 1965, and was one of a handful of jockeys to win the grand slam of racing: the G...