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Hi everyone, welcome. This is episode 1693, It's Blind Magic in Alice Springs,
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and I am your presenter and host, Murray Stewart.
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Hey, you beauty. Well, well, I am a happy man this morning for a couple of reasons.
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One, I was just able to navigate through with my wonderful support worker.
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A little bit of a technical issue we had here.
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And it's all fixed. It's all done with a bit of perseverance and not giving
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up. Yeah, that's right. Not giving up. That was the key this morning.
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Oh, there was all sorts of angst and a trifle, a bit of miscommunication going
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on. But we got there. We got there.
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So we're celebrating all around. Now we've had a victory.
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And talking about victory, Ethan Brown.
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Yeah, Ethan Brown. He's now an Alice Springs hero.
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He is the winning jockey this year's Melbourne Cup on Point of Law. Beautifully written.
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And yes, he is an Alice Springs boy.
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He did it tough. He did it tough in the sense that here we are in a small town,
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with not having the facilities that the big cities have, but I think it was
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probably that that has made him the man he is and the jockey that he is.
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Yeah, I do believe that.
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And this is why I truly believe you can achieve great things no matter where you live.
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Yeah, don't let anything daunt you.
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Don't let anything blunt the pursuance of your dreams, even if you do live in
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a small town, no matter where you are in the world.
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Because if you want it badly enough, you will get there. You will.
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I mean, I look at what has been achieved here.
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In the track running scene, yeah, I have coached as the world's only dual disability coach.
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I have coached two junior 400 metre Australian champions.
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And we did it the hard way from right here in Central Australia,
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training on a grass track.
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And that worked to our advantage once these runners got onto the faster synthetic surface.
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And I truly am a 100% believer that nothing is an obstacle here when it comes to track running.
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Yeah, nothing, absolutely nothing. And I look forward to the day when a runner,
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does not leave Alice Springs,
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despite the enticements that do come their way, because they are plucked from
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Alice Springs by those who think they know better.
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Once they become noticed, yes, they are, they're headhunted.
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And we lose them to other programs and other coaches.
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And I have to say, sadly, very often that ends in tears.
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But could you imagine the day that a runner sees it through and makes it big,
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maybe to the Olympic Games, and stays right here in Alice Springs?
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What a story. What a magnificent, unbelievable story that would be.
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And I believe that story can and will happen.
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That's why we have set up the Running Academy Central Australia and I believe that.
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Because we have the heat and we have the medium level high altitude and we do
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have the training surfaces and if I might say, they also have,
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the coach and now the program, the Running Academy Central Australia program,
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from which to launch their elite career.
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We're going to make it happen for them. We are. We are absolutely going to make it happen for them.
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And the day it does happen, wow, they can write their own check because they
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will have a story beyond belief to sell to Corporate Australia.
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And Corporate Australia...
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Will gobble that story up because they will want to have them,
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you know, under their belt in terms of supporting them because of that story,
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that amazing Central Australian story.
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I just want you to know wherever you live and whatever you dream about,
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don't let anything hold you back.
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Not ever if you want it badly enough just keep training keep doing as those who are instructing you,
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request that you do because inevitably they do know best because they've done
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it yeah that's right they've done it that's that's why they are in the position that they're in,
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so listen and learn and then you're going to live your dream.
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You will. You're going to live your dream.
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And one day you won't need to dream. You'll actually be doing it. You will be.
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You'll be on the center stage, whether it be an elite running track at an elite
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running event, or maybe it'll be as Ethan Brown has achieved,
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you know, being a jockey on a great horse in a great race.
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Yeah, we're really celebrating him hard up here. It's a very positive shot in
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the arm that Alice Springs needs at the right time.
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As we're beginning to emerge from under the blanket of some difficulties that
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we have had in recent times, yeah, Ethan has been a shining light for us,
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a beacon toward the possibilities that we all can take hold of.
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All right, folks, this has been, and it always will be, episode 1693,
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a Blind Magic Communications production.