A golf and auction benefit day will be held at Port Macquarie Golf Club on February 2 to raise funds to help local jockey Marlon Dolendo who is in ill health and needs a kidney transplant. The popular 38-year-old, married with three children, has been diagnosed as having only 10 per cent kidney function. Marlon has ridden some 900 winners and is one of the best-known riders in Australia.

A golf and auction benefit day will be held at Port Macquarie Golf Club on February 2 to raise funds to help local jockey Marlon Dolendo who is in ill health and needs a kidney transplant. The popular 38-year-old, married with three children, has been diagnosed as having only 10 per cent kidney function. Marlon has ridden some 900 winners and is one of the best-known riders in Australia.