He is commemorated in the township of Oakey with a life size bronze statue located outside the Jondaryan Council chambers.
It was sold in 1948 for £17,000 to Azzalin Romano, of the nightclub restaurant Romanos, who had sold his racehorse Bernborough in 1946 to Louis B. Mayer for £93,000.
The town's moment of glory came with the birth of the brilliant horse Bernborough at Rosalie Plains in 1939.