Adelaide Crows tall forward and harness racing enthusiast Josh Jenkins will have a reason close to his heart for finding winners at the Ballarat Pacing Cup meeting on Saturday night.
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He is taking on a punting challenge to raise money for Adelaide teenager Jed McDonald, who has been battling a brain tumour.
Jenkins has had a close association with the McDonald family since moving to South Australia to embark on an AFL career and is passionate to do all he can to boost the Jed McDonald Gofundme appeal.
Ballarat and District Trotting Club is bankrolling the challenge.
Jenkins has ties with Burrumbeet trainer-driver Michael Stanley as a standardbred owner and regularly visits the stable.
He is also active in developing form analysis and ratings on social media, and has been an amabassador for feature harness racing meetings.
Jenkins is hoping that as well as getting a substantial return in his own right, that he can also guide racegoers into some winners who in turn can contribute to the cause.
The McDonald family is looking raise $60,000 to allow it to provide the necessary support which enables Jed to return from Sydney, where he has been receiving specialised treatment, to familiar surroundings in Adelaide.
The youngster was first disagosed in June, 2017, with him undergoing his latest surgery late last year.
Jenkins will also be available to sign mini footballs for fans.