SO many people have paid tribute to the wonderful career of John Oxx (pages 10-11) and another to add her voice is Caroline Corballis of the IHRB: “Truly the end of an era. My family had a long, successful and most agreeable association with John Oxx and before that with his father.

“John trained a large number of homebred winning fillies for my great-aunt, Betty Laidlaw (Safe Home, Muffitys, Inanna, etc). He also trained for my father, Tom Laidlaw, among these was a fun horse,Uncle Pokey.