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Ernie Farrant was a general manager at Harringay grey hound racing track. He was a legend in his own right for the number of hats he wore for presentation photographs, often changing them several times during a meeting. He became general manager at Harringay in 1974, after spells at Crayford and Clapton. He instituted races named after people’s birthdays or anniversaries, and went over the top on the number of headwear changes he would make during presentations, just to confuse the photographers.

John McCririck modelled himself on Ernie Farrant with the hats. Ernie would wear a different one every meeting and if there were opens a different one every race for the presentations. McCririck was in the background early TV Harringay broadcasts and he copied Ernie.