A delighted Barbara Joseph quipped "They won't be able to forget me will they", after the Canberra Racing Club named a medal in her honour for the best-performed trainer at next year's carnival.
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Hall of Famer Darren Beadman had a slightly different reaction, when he was asked to lend his name to the equivalent jockeys' medal at next year's Canberra Racing Carnival.
"I was really taken aback I nearly bloody ran off the road," Beadman told The Canberra Times.
"I was pretty chuffed about it. It's a very nice honour."
Beadman was born in Canberra and spent the first 12 years of his life in the district, before moving to Moss Vale and ultimately Sydney where he began a apprenticeship with the legendary Theo Green.
That kickstarted a stellar riding career which featured 85 Group 1 winners, including two Melbourne Cups, two Golden Slippers and a Cox Plate, and culminated in Beadman becoming the youngest jockey (aged 41) ever inducted into the Australian Racing Hall Of Fame.
But it all began in Canberra, where Beadman attended Garran Primary and Lyneham High School when he wasn't playing junior footy for the Woden Valley Rams, or riding horses at the Canberra Lakes Pony Club.
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"I always say that Mum and Dad named me after the suburb, Darren from Garran, it has a nice ring to it," Beadman, now an assistant trainer with Godolphin, said.
"I was born in the old Canberra Hospital, it's gone now. I did all my junior footy and pony clubs and all that sort of jazz in Canberra for the first decade of my life - that's where the roots are planted.
"I rode a bit there [at Thoroughbred Park] when I was an apprentice and even as a senior rider. Whilst it was out of the way a bit. . .I still used to come down and ride at the big meetings, Canberra Cup meeting and the Black Opal when they had the National Sprint on.
"It's an easy trip, I don't think you hit a set of traffic lights from when you leave Liverpool.
"With our operation at Godolphin, we take horses down there for the Black Opal. We've even taken horses down there for their maidens to try and get them a win.
"It has quite a good buzz about it. Before Covid hit, the young people were getting out there and getting out and about, they've done it up pretty well."
Jockeys and trainers will be awarded points in each race of the two-day Canberra Carnival next March. Winning trainers and riders receive three points, runners-up are given two and third-place finishers get one.
The jockey with the most points earns the Darren Beadman Medal while the winning trainer receives the Barbara Joseph Medal.
Joseph began training horses in 1975 in Bombala and became the first female to win the Group 1 Doncaster Handicap in 1989 with Merimbula Bay. Beadman rode Joseph's first ever winner in Sydney, a horse called Lyndon Love.
In 1994 she relocated to Thoroughbred Park and has been one of the region's leading trainers ever since.
She's in Gundagai this week ahead where she hopes to win a third Snake Gully Cup on Friday, with She's All In.
"She had a very good run the other day in the race over at Wagga so she should run well in that," Joseph said.
"There'll be a lot of pace in the race and she can just stick in behind them.
Mookareena and One Aye are both listed as emergencies in the race, with the former likely to run at Canberra instead next week.