Gentlemen of the Australian Turf
Author | : David Hickie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Book-making (Betting) |
ISBN | : 9780207155918 |
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Author | : David Hickie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Book-making (Betting) |
ISBN | : 9780207155918 |
Author | : Zeb Armstrong |
Publisher | : Booktango |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2013-10-29 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1468939408 |
The Bernborough Phenomenon tells the tale of the emergence of a champion racehorse from the small Australian country town of Toowoomba that went on to become perhaps Australia's greatest thoroughbred since Phar Lap. The Bernborough story would not be out of place in a Nat Gould or Banjo Patterson bush racing yarn, yet the story of Bernborough is true even if it still has a few loose ends...
Author | : Paul Kennedy |
Publisher | : Hachette Australia |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 073363253X |
'This history of the Waterhouse dynasty is a cut above the field of racing books that burst from the barriers this time of year' - Sydney Morning Herald Drama, glamour, scandal, success - and very high stakes. The story of Australia's best known horse racing family has it all. When it comes to racing, the name most Australians associate with the racetrack is Waterhouse. This is their compelling story. High Stakes takes us from Bill Waterhouse's introduction to the world as a sixteen-year-old, working as a bookmaker for his father in the late thirties - going on to make money both on and off the track - to the headlines caused by his involvement in the notorious Fine Cotton affair in the eighties. It examines his son Robbie's rise as a respected bookie and a knowledgeable judge of horses, to his spectacular fall, as a result of that same Fine Cotton affair, which led to a life ban from involvement in the racing industry. While the ban was lifted in 2001, he keeps a low profile these days. As Kennedy reveals, the same cannot be said of Robbie's wife, Gai, daughter of the legendary horse trainer TJ Smith. In a male-dominated world, she has gone on to rival her father as one of Australia's best trainers, training horses for a star-studded clientele that has ranged from John Singleton to the Queen of England. Yet as High Stakes shows, the scandal aside, the marriage between Gai and Robbie was always going to be problematic. As the Sydney Morning Herald put it: 'It's not that the Smiths and the Waterhouses were necessarily the Capulets and the Montagues but the country's leading trainer and the world's biggest bookmaker were hardly natural kinsfolk either.' Despite an already colourful history, when their son, Tom, stepped into the family business and became one of the best-known and most controversial bookies the country had ever seen, Kennedy describes how the dramas for the Waterhouse dynasty were only just beginning... This is the book for anyone who wants to know the inside story of contemporary Australian horse racing, a world where premiers and millionaires rub shoulders with gangsters and girls with fancy hats. It's a world of passion, action - and very high stakes.
Author | : James Morton |
Publisher | : Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Total Pages | : 587 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0522859445 |
From the bestselling authors of Gangland Australia comes Dangerous to Know, an A to Z of Australasian crimes, criminals and their victims. James Morton and Susanna Lobez have trawled through written records to compile this snappy yet comprehensive account of the bad, mad and plain notorious. All the names are here, from Ronald Ryan (the last man hanged in Australia), to the Carlton Crew. An unmissable book, in one handy volume, for anyone who wants to know all there is to know about Australia's dark underbelly.
Author | : Betty Lane Holland |
Publisher | : Balboa Press |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2019-11-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1504319869 |
In the 1960s when Australian horse racing rules prevented women being racehorse trainers, Betty Lane broke down barriers and became listed in the top 10 from over 1000 trainers in New South Wales
Author | : John Maynard |
Publisher | : Aboriginal Studies Press |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1922059544 |
Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’ celebrates the significant and exciting Aboriginal involvement in Australian racing history. A remarkable history considering that Australian Aboriginal people’s first contact with the European animals caused them bewilderment and terror because violent massacres and unprovoked vicious attacks were conducted from horseback. However, within a short period they adapted and shed their fears. Over time they caught horses and taught themselves to ride, using sheets of bark as makeshift saddles. Settler accounts record Aboriginal people’s uncanny affinity with horses; their excellence in caring for them and in riding. So, moving from the skilled workers who were the backbone of the Australian pastoral industries to racing horses was an obvious step. Amongst the many Aboriginal jockeys highlighted in the book are Merv Maynard, Norm Rose, Frank Reys, Richard Lawrence 'Darby' McCarthy and Leigh-Anne Goodwin, Australia's first female Aboriginal jockey to ride a winner at a metropolitan track.
Author | : James Morton |
Publisher | : Victory Books |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0522860192 |
Do you want to...Help distribute money to the poor and be given a fee to do so? Share in Al Qaeda's hidden gold? Help a young girl orphaned in the tsunami? In their highly entertaining and often shocking new book James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia by delving into the world of Australian con artists such as Mario Condello, Helen Demidenko, Christopher Skase, Brenton Jarrett, Peter Foster, Lola Montez and Fairlie Arrow. Here are highly talented men and women and their tricks: changing paper into banknotes, selling other people's property, faking deaths, and forging paintings; promising miracle cures and impersonating aristocracy, preachers, military gents, lawyers and doctors. In fact, whatever it takes to separate the unwary from their money. Read about the scams and think twice about that offer that seems almost too good to be true.
Author | : Western Australia. Parliament |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1402 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Morton |
Publisher | : Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2016-02-01 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0522869696 |
Dangerous to Know documents murders known and not so well known, conmen and their victims, street gangs of the early twentieth century, crime lords of the 1920s, dock wars of the 1970s, bikers, sex offenders, and the drug gangs of today as well as the wrongly accused and wrongly convicted. They're all here, as well as some of the police, lawyers and judges who have tried to deal with them.