Hamilton: Sellwood embraces the spirit of the TAB Eureka

08 September 2025 | Adam Hamilton
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Ray Sellwood scoffs at the suggestion the TAB Eureka is a race for the big wigs.

It’s easy to take a quick glance at the results and assume that when you see the dominance of champions Emma Stewart, Clayton Tonkin and Luke McCarthy across the first three years of the world’s richest harness race.

But that annoys Sellwood, a former bush footy player and businessman from Undera in the Goulburn Valley, who says the race is the ultimate coming together of all types of participants in harness racing.

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