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• Larry Lawrence

An Update on Who Raced All Three? – Kenny, Kenny Jr. and Kurtis

Ascot Half-Mile results from 1977.

Ascot Half-Mile results from 1977.

Mike Sullivan is one of only four riders I can find who have raced all three Robertses - Kenny Sr., Kenny Jr. and Kurtis.

Mike Sullivan is one of only four riders I can find who have raced all three Robertses - Kenny Sr., Kenny Jr. and Kurtis.

This past January during an interview with longtime racer Mike Sullivan, I wondered out loud if he might be the only rider to have raced all three of the Robertses in a national. I and a couple of other racing historians started doing some research and we came up with just three riders, Jimmy Filice, Bruce Lind and Rich Oliver who definitively raced Kenny Sr., Kenny Jr. and Kurtis during a national road race or flat track.

At the time Sullivan told me he thought he’d raced all three, but wasn’t sure when, or if, he’d raced Kenny Sr. Well thanks to Sullivan being a packrat he has dug up info proving that he did race Kenny Sr. at Ascot back in 1977.

Sullivan wrote:

Looking through Rider Files and found your article on who raced against all three Roberts. Well since I never throw anything away I found the results in my scrap book from Cycle News, from the 1977 Ascot half mile National. If you look in the 1st Semi final you will see that Kenny (the King) finished 6th and I finished 9th. I am quite sure he must have had a problem, but there is the proof that I did indeed race against all three. I am thinking I also raced against him when he made the come back at the Astrodome in like 81 or 82 whenever that was but I have no proof. So if this means I get my mug in the article I will send you a good face shot for your correction.

Thanks Mike for sending Cycle News results and here is the updated story on those who raced all three Robertses.

Here’s the original story with updates.

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