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Ken Browne was an outstanding jockey and trainer of jumps racing. What stood Browne apart from most other horsemen in the world of jumps racing was that he did much of the physical work himself. …

Keith Arnold was a 1940s rugby player and All Black.  He played all of his club rugby for Hautapu with the exception of 1941 when he played for Matamata.  He represented North Island Army in…

Ken Peake was a Champion polo player from the 1930s.  He was Captain and wearer of the number 3 vest winning the Savile Cup, the oldest New Zealand sporting trophy, in 1936, 1937 and 1938,…

Juliette Haigh was a World Champion and Olympic rower.  Haigh (now Drysdale) was in the New Zealand Women’s Pairs from 2004 to 2008 with Nicky Coles, then returned to the event after a year out…

Joelle King is a Commonwealth Games Champion squash player.  She is one of New Zealand’s most decorated Commonwealth Games athletes having won an impressive six medals. She won her first Professional Squash Association (PSA) Tour…

Jim Watson’s polo career, like that of Ken Peake, began at the age of 12.  He went on to become one of the outstanding players in New Zealand polo. Ken Peake was Jim’s polo idol…

Bob Nolan was a New Zealand polo player.  Nolan, along with Ken Peake, played in what was regarded as one of the great Savile Cup teams.  In 1938 they were the first polo wearers of…

Hamish Bond was a World and Olympic Champion rower.  He was a member of the New Zealand gold medal-winning coxless four at the 2007 World Rowing Championships.  The coxless four won Team of the Year at…

Greg Johnston was a World Champion and Olympic rower.  He joined the Waikato Rowing Club and from 1978 onwards, won a total of 26 national rowing titles: ten titles in the eight, nine titles in…

George MacDonald was a rugby league player.  His short but outstanding rugby league career in the 1950s is an achievement befitting his recognition in the Cambridge Sports Walk of Fame. Born in Scotland in 1934,…