Through the early morning dawn around the Melbourne Showgrounds in the 1960s a 16-year-old would arise, steer his standy two miles through darkened streets for a jog before returning home and readying for his day job.
He would go on to become harness racing Living Legend Peter Manning, and he sat with Paul Campbell for the latest edition of Tooth Be Told.
A teenaged Manning's love of the animal and the sport was born via the horses that stood in a paddock at the bottom of his parents' Ascot Vale property, who he would randomly ride.
"I liked the horses and used to do stupid things," he says. "On weekends you went down and mucked out boxes, that was it, and you might get to drive one. That was sort of how it started.
"Then I left school when I was 15, started an apprenticeship as a plumber the next day. Twenty-one years I did that for, the whole time I had a horse. Started when I was 16, got a horse and decided to train it. I got my harness driver's licence and went on from there."
Many thousands of victories have followed in a career and legacy that has reshaped the sport.
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