Legends of the Track

Author: Alan Whiticker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1923009168
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
In Legends of the Track: Australia's champion jockeys and trainers, best-selling author Alan Whiticker tells the stories of 25 modern-era horse racing greats.This book celebrates the careers of champions trainers such as Bart Cummings, Tommy Smith, Colin Hayes, Gai Waterhouse, Lee Freedman and Chris Waller, and features interviews with the best jockeys of the modern era - Ron Quinton, Darren Beadman, Shane Dye, Hugh Bowman, Damien Oliver, Glen Boss and James McDonald.With full career statistics for each chapter and dozens of rare photos, Legends of the Track details the greatest achievements in a wonderful sporting era of Australian horse racing.

Fighting the U-boats

Author: Edward Keble Chatterton
Publisher: London : Hurst & Blackett,Limited
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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A Long Way from Wyandra

Author: Peter Moody
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760528805
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
The forthright, fascinating memoir of Peter Moody, trainer of Black Caviar and one of Australia's most high-profile and best-liked racing identities.

Beneath the Southern Cross

Author: Robert Richardson (B.A.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Report

Author: Queensland. Dept. of Labour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Fluvial Sedimentology VII

Author: Michael Blum
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444304364
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 600

Book Description
IAS Special Publication 35, Fluvial Sedimentology VII, comprises ofa series of peer-reviewed papers that were initially presented atthe 7th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, held inLincoln, Nebraska on August 6-10, 2001. The 29 papers in this volume reflect the topical and geographicdiversity of exciting research conducted by fluvialsedimentologists at the beginning of the 21st century. Themesrepresented in this volume include (a) flow, sediment transport,and bedform dynamics, (b) characteristics of modern fluviallandforms, environments and systems, (c) physical analogue andnumerical modeling of fluvial systems, (d) the responses ofQuaternary fluvial systems to climate change, active tectonics,and/or sea-level change, and (e) characteristics of pre-Quaternaryfluvial deposits and evolution of pre-Quaternary fluvial systems.

Drongo

Author: Bruce Walkley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780987526304
Category : Colloquial language
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Just about everyone knows what a drongo is - the human not the bird variety. It s what you re likely to be called by your Australian mates if you re a bit of a dill, a loser even. It comes from the racehorse Drongo, who in the 1920s couldn t win a race in 37 attempts, but the animal s saving grace was that the losses were in good company on good racetracks. He came second in the 1923 Victoria Derby. So, Drongo the racehorse was no drongo. Instead, he was perhaps the greatest loser the equine world has seen. How he came on the Australian racing scene reads like a work of fiction, in a story that had its beginnings after the actress Lillie Langtry, one of King Edward VII s many mistresses when he was Prince of Wales, became obsessed with the high quality of Australian racehorses. And that s just for starters... Follow Drongo s journey, set against the backdrop of the roaring 20s, as we celebrate the 90th anniversary of his Derby loss.

Sails Beneath the Southern Cross

Author: Percy Allen Eaddy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailing ships
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Hold Ya Horses

Author: Ron Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921332906
Category : Jockeys
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
Simon Marshall, former champion jockey, is a young man on the move. He is 38 years old, cocky, confident, full of charm and goodwill. He comes across as a loveable larrikin. He is brash but he gives no offence. Men relate to his sporting prowess and his directness. Women think he is cute. He rode effectively for only 11 years but chalked up more achievements than most jockeys do in a lifetime. He has since become a commentator for Channel 7 and worked for Radio SEN. In the corporate world he is the front man for BC3 Thoroughbreds, a company that buys yearlings, educates and develops them before on-selling them as two-year-olds. He is an ambassador for the Cancer Foundation and a willing contributor to charitable organizations such as the Doxa Foundation for under- privileged children. In this book Simon tells how he became a jockey, the thrill of winning, the tortures of wasting, his clashes with the stewards, the happy times, the low times, and the funny times.

Makybe Diva

Author: Trevor Marshallsea
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 146071170X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
The story of a once-in-a-lifetime horse who would surpass all the rest. Before Winx, before Black Caviar, there was an incredible, mould-breaking mare who won the hearts of the nation and added the most fantastic chapter of all to the story of its greatest race. Makybe Diva didn't just win one Melbourne Cup. She won three, in successive years, seizing Australia's attention during a wild spring of 2005 by completing a hat-trick deeply etched in the nation's folklore. This is her story, with all the colour and excitement the most extraordinary racing story can deliver.