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A life with horses

Two-times Tom Quilty Gold Cup winner Tom Thomsen lends his endurance experience to a new crop of riders. 473011_01

PRECEDE Tom Thomsen came to Australia from Denmark at the age of seven. ERLE LEVEY finds out about a life […]

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