New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

RACE AGAINST TIME Ellie’s lifesaving decision

‘That was the most dramatic moment in my life. You don’t have time to think. You just react’

When the commentator at the Omakau Races announced that champion harness racing driver Ricky May had fainted during a race, it struck fellow driver Ellie Barron as odd.

“I was jogging over after gearing up a horse for my uncle because I wanted to watch a horse I had previously driven,” recalls Ellie of the moment she heard the broadcast on that early January day in Central Otago. “I

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