Eureka! Rob Watson, thrill seeker with a cause

Rob Watson is a thrill seeker with a cause.

The 55-year-old has dangled over the edge of Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and two weeks ago ran the Sydney Marathon.

That put him in a select group with a sweep of the world’s seven marathon majors, which include Chicago, London, New York, Berlin, Boston and Tokyo.

The owner of Perth Plasterboard Centre, as if Watson didn’t have enough work on his hands amid the busy building boom — and kilometres in his feet — he crammed in another major milestone in the Harbour City six days after the marathon.

An owner-breeder of standard and thoroughbred horses, Watson has a slot in the world’s richest harness race, the $2.1 million TAB Eureka, and this year used it on the Emma