Obituary
MR J. McLENNAN Mr John McLennan, one of trotting’s best-known and most successful riders and drivers earlier this century, died at the home of his son-in-law, Mr T. Wilson, of Halkett, yesterday. He was aged 82.
At the time of his retirement about 30 years ago, Mr McLennan held the record of having ridden the winners of 70 saddle races run over one mile, and five of those winners were straight-out trotters.
One of his most successful meetings was the 1920 New Zealand Cup meeting at Addington. On that occasion he and F. G. Holmes, sen., now in his nineties, each handled six winners, just half the programme between them. Mr McLennan was 16 when he trained and rode his first winner, at a Geraldine meeting. There were many good horses he drove and rode in his time but one of the best was Cello Sydney Wilkes. At the 1919 New Zealand Cup meeting he won four races with this Balelutha-owned stallion.
For many years Mr McLennan resided in Oamaru. While there he did all the riding and driving for the stables of J. Henderson and R. Logan, two highly successful trainers of that time.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30857, 16 September 1965, Page 5
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