Rough Habit, The Unlikely Champion is Ken Linnett’s second book on champions of the Turf. His first, also published by the Slattery Media Group (2017), Tulloch, The extraordinary life and times of a true champion, won the 2018 Bill Whittaker award for, “the best book on horse racing in Australia/New Zealand” over a two year period. Linnett also wrote the 1999 biography of the broadcaster and cult figure, Tommy Lahiff (Game for anything, The Tommy Lahiff story, Allen & Unwin)