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When Balding raced home for Light Blues

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BRENDAN GALLAGHER

IAN Balding, who died earlier this month aged 87, is of course best known as a legendary race horse trainer, the man who sent out Mill Reef to conquer the world and a trainer with the best part of 1,800 career wins under his belt but he was also a young rugby player of some note.
Balding was an outstanding player at both Marlborough and Millfield and it was while at the former that he blazed a trail at scrum-half at the 1957 Rosslyn
Park sevens. Quick and athletic and with senior experience already with the Bath and the Dorset and Wilts First XVs, he w...

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