Dick Roden

Dick Roden (8 November 1925 – 21 August 1991) was an Australian racehorse trainer. He trained Macdougal, which was in 1959, the first horse to win the Brisbane Cup, Metropolitan Handicap and Melbourne Cup in the same year.[1] Roden became in 1959 Australia's youngest ever trainer of a Melbourne Cup winner until 58 years later.[2] He is an inductee to the 2005 Queensland Racing Hall of Fame.[3]

  1. ^ Rolfe, Costa (2012). "1959 Macdougal". Winners of the Melbourne Cup: Stories that Stopped a Nation. Fitzroy, Victoria: Red Dog Books. pp. 232–234. ISBN 9781742590868.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Kings was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Dick Roden: A global all rounder". Queensland History of Racing. Retrieved 24 February 2019.