Young jockey honoured in trackside memorial service

THE symbolism was powerful and deeply moving.

As the hearse carrying Daniel Baker drove slowly past the winning post at Coffs Harbour racetrack yesterday, spontaneous applause broke out among the mourners.
It was a surreal moment, Baker's final "victory" on a racecourse he knew so well.
More than 500 of NSW's leading racing identities attended Baker's funeral yesterday, honouring the memory of the popular 23-year-old jockey who died from head injuries sustained in an horrific race fall at Grafton earlier this month.
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