Mt Isa's Dan Ballard lives and breathes country racing

Alan Welburn
Updated September 25 2019 - 10:09am, first published September 23 2019 - 7:27pm
The Ballard clan are proud country racing folk and Dan, second from right, is the 2018-19 premier country jockey.
The Ballard clan are proud country racing folk and Dan, second from right, is the 2018-19 premier country jockey.

SOMETIME last century someone said you could take a boy out of the country, but you'd never take the country out of the boy.

Alan Welburn

Alan Welburn

Journalist

Lover of sport, particularly horse racing and all things Olympic. Have spent my entire working life in journalism, mostly with News Corp on its major metro mastheads. Done plenty of things but the best by far is having a teenage son who calls me dad.

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