Article: Clean-up unearths secret recipe for cup success

IT was a tiny scrap of paper, fading and forgotten in the back of a drawer.

Ashburton trainer John Lischner, spring cleaning the desk in his office, was about to throw it away when the few typed lines on it caught his eye.

It was a simple list of half a dozen ingredients, with no indication as to what it was, but Lischner suspected he'd stumbled across a secret leg wash recipe. And when he asked his daughter Kim, a pharmacist, to mix it up for him, Lischner immediately realised from its smell and colour, that this was indeed the mix which old time trainers had so jealously guarded. Ironically, if Bradshaw can down Iraklis in Tuesday's DB Draught New Zealand Trotting Cup, Lischner will have ...

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