Vale Alan 'Jock' Gollogly

Alan 'Jock' Gollogly (right) with Hugh Bowman

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by Grant Morgan

​This week racing lost one of its true characters in Alan 'Jock' Gollogly.

I first came to know Jock in the early nineties when I was working in the Racing division of Australian Associated Press (AAP) in Sydney. Pre internet days, Jock used to do his form on the printed out A3 style paper AAP 'FastForm' which I printed out for him on a clunky old dot matrix printer. As soon as acceptances were out, I'd quickly snap the printer into action before rushing the reems of paper into the express post up to Newcastle.

​Later in life, I worked alongside Jock at Kembla Grange where he did mounting yard mail for 2KY, whilst I would report for the Sunday Telegraph.

​In more recent times Jock was a part of the furniture in Kris Lee's stable at his beloved Newcastle, where he passed aged 72.

​RIP Jock. 

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Vale Alan “Jock” Gollogly :: Racing Queensland

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