John Hawkes

And my sister lives in Adelaide, which is great.

which is great.

You know, it was good for the whole family.

As I said, my niece looked after Wayne with the horses.

So that was a real family concern.

Yeah, that's lovely.

That's lovely.

I think so.

I mean, it's like everything.

It's extremely difficult.

you know, today, you know, the dollars and cents, you know, trying to sort of get, well, Adelaide's trying to compete with, you know, Melbourne and Sydney, which is naturally they're the big two states, which is not easy, but actually they've done, they've done a really marvelous job to get some of the prize money up for the bigger races and they've attracted, you know, well, Chris Waller at the weekend, which is, it's, it's really good for Adelaide racing.

I mean, it's never going to get up to the,

the Melbourne and Sydney standard.

But, you know, it's great the way they're handling it.

And as I said, they're getting some of the prize money up, which is great.

I've tried to over a long period of time, but, you know, they get a bit hard to talk to and tell them what to do at times.

But overall, yes, you know, as I said, they've been great.

We've been together for a long, long time, over a long, long period of time, so they pretty much know how I think and how we operate.

So, no, they've done a marvellous job, both the boys.

No, no, it's been excellent over a long period of time.