Eddie Sims dies
NZPA Sydney The widely known Sydney trotting trainer-driver, Eddie Sims, died on Saturday. Sims, aged 47, was acknowledged as one of Australia’s finest students of harness horse breeding. ► He trained and drove many good horses, including Errol’s Song, Flying Dream, Gentle Miss, Tanya Hanover, Roseland Count and he drove Fur Elise to • win the 1971 New South Wales Oaks. He selected Markovina as an unraced two-year-old in New Zealand and later sold the horse to South Australian interests. The pacer became a top class performer and later won the 1978 Inter-Dominion Championship.
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