George Hanlon
Australian horse trainer
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George Hanlon (July 1917 – 28 January 2010) was an Australian race horse trainer. Born in South Australia he was inducted in the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2002.
Hanlon trained three Melbourne Cup winners; Piping Lane in 1972, Arwon in 1978 and Black Knight in 1984.[1][2]
He also trained Family of Man who won the:
- 1977 and 1979 Alister Clark Stakes
- 1977 Caulfield Stakes
- 1977 W S Cox Plate
- 1978 William Reid Stakes
- 1978 Mackinnon Stakes.
Hanlon died in 2010, aged 92, at a nursing home in Geelong, Victoria where he had been living for the past year and a half.[1]
