Chris Lang Snr’s career in harness racing is filled with memorable moments and amazing highs, and he was bestowed another incredible honour on Monday night.

The 65-year-old was announced as the newest Caduceus Club Living Legend, an award first struck in 1995 to acknowledge and celebrate those who've gone above and beyond – from anywhere in Australasia - and made significant contributions to the industry.

“I’m going to say something very cliché… it’s a life well lived,” Lang admitted.

“It’s great to be able to enjoy these moments and just be here.

"I’m grateful for the journey I’ve been on, and hopefully it’s not over yet.”

His induction follows that of his late father and brother, Graeme and Gavin, in 1998 and 2013 respectively.

John Dunne reflected on Chris Lang Snr’s outstanding harness racing career for thetrots.com.au.

Chris Lang Snr was always destined to follow in the footsteps of his legendary father and brother, Graeme and Gavin.

In his own time.

Upon completing Year 12, Lang became an apprentice chef with the Board Of Works, but the lure of horses prevailed after a couple of years with the youngster chalking up his first winning drive on Wandering Kid at Stawell in 1978.

National Interest was Lang’s foray into the country’s feature trotting races.

Often described as the bridesmaid to champion juvenile Noopy Kiosk, National Interest chalked up one of Lang’s first Group 1 successes when he took out the 1998 V L Dullard Cup.

The first of Lang’s three consecutive Inter Dominion Trotting Championship Grand Final winners was Galleons Sunset, who saluted at Moonee Valley in 2008.

Sundons Gift, the best horse Lang has trained, emerged in 2007 and won the first of four consecutive   Group 1 Australian Trotting Grand Prixs.

The son of Sundon won the first of back-to-back Inter Dominion titles in 2009 before heading overseas to take on the world’s best trotters in Sweden’s famous Elitloppet.

Bad barrier draws hindered his chances of success in Sweden, where he recorded his best time of 1:53.8.

Sundons Gift completed his Inter Dominion double the following year, with stablemate Skyvalley filling third place in the final meeting staged at Moonee Valley.

Later that year, Sundons Gift headed across the Tasman and took out New Zealand’s premier race, the time-honoured Group 1 Rowe Cup.

He made 2010 Redwood Day his own by training four winners, including the Victoria Trotters Derby with Jingling Silver.

Lang put the polish on what seemed an endless array of top-class trotters, including the multiple Group 1 winners Kyvalley Road (2003 Victoria Trotters Derby), Let Me Thru (2011 Australasian Trotting Championship Final), Jauriol (2005 Victoria Trotters Oaks) and Skyvalley (2009 Bill Collins Trotters Sprint), who would later enjoy a successful career as a stallion.

In 2014, Lang was forced to walk away from the sport after being diagnosed with Raynauds Disease, a rare blood disorder affecting the hands which made harnessing a horse almost impossible.

Lang relocated to the Bellarine Peninsula where he worked as a curator at the Curlewis Golf Club for several years.

With his health on the improve, Lang and his partner Sonia Mahar have set up stables in Riddells Creek on the northern outskirts of Melbourne where the talented Ollivici has been the flagship horse.

Ollivici scored back-to-back heat wins in the 2023 Inter Dominion trotting series at Albion Park and finished runner-up behind champion trotter Just Believe in last year’s Group 1 Bill Collins Mile.

In a glittering career, Lang has prepared more than 1100 winners and driven over 1000, with well in excess of 30 Group 1s as a trainer and more than 20 as a reinsman.

Widely acknowledged as a master mentor of the trotting gait, Lang has been the leading trainer of trotters in Australasia on many occasions.

Congratulations Chris Lang Snr on being named a Caduceus Club Living Legend.