Horseracing: Almoonqith wins Sandown Cup for Michael Walker, who pays tribute to his dead mate

By Michael Lynch
Updated November 20 2015 - 10:18am, first published November 14 2015 - 6:49pm

Jockey Michael Walker signed off for the next few months with a big race winner when he scored in the $150,000 Sandown Cup aboard the David Hayes-trained Almoonqith ($8.50) — but his thoughts were all about his boyhood friend, whose funeral he will return to New Zealand to attend.

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