George Main (horse racing)

In 1900 George enlisted in the Bushmen's Contingent, a South Australian volunteer force mobilised to fight in the Boer War.

[4] Their father had two blocks on Kermode Street, North Adelaide, in partnership with Nathaniel Alexander Knox (died 1908) with five two-storey houses, all tenanted.

Featherstitch, whom he purchased in 1909, was imported 1907 by James N. Hart (died 1920), and won the 1909 Tattersall's Stakes at Randwick, and was the sire of many good horses.

He acted as temporary Chairman during the final illness of Sir Colin Stephen, and was elected to the position on 16 September 1937, resigning in November 1945, to be succeeded by A. G. Potter.

[8] He was survived by his wife Mary, sons George and Hugh, and daughters Molly and Agnes "Toots" Main, and Jean Caldwell.