Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Bernborough Phenomenon PDF full book. Access full book title The Bernborough Phenomenon by Zeb Armstrong. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Zeb Armstrong Publisher: Booktango ISBN: 1468939408 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 73
Book Description
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: Zeb Armstrong Publisher: Booktango ISBN: 1468939408 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 73
Book Description
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: Jessica Owers Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 1742750249 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
The extraordinary life of Australia's first international racehorse, from creating new records in Australia to his life in California, where he won the Hollywood Gold Cup In wartime Sydney, a small and weedy racehorse kicked his way through the top tier of Australian racing. He was Shannon, one of the fastest horses the nation had ever seen. Between 1943 and 1947, Shannon broke record after record with his garrulous jockey Darby Munro. When they sensationally lost the Epsom Handicap by six inches, they forever were stamped by the race they didn't win. Sold in August 1947 for the highest price ever paid at auction for an Australian thoroughbred, Shannon ended up in America. Through headline-snatching pedigree flaws, acclimatization, and countless hardships, he blitzed across the ritzy, glitzy racetracks of 1948 California. Smashing track records, world records, and records set by Seabiscuit, the Australian bolted into world fame with speed and courage that defied all odds. Long before Black Caviar, So You Think, and Takeover Target, Shannon was Australia's first international racehorse. Starring Hall of Fame trainers and jockeys, Hollywood lawyers, and legends Bernborough and Citation, this is his tremendous story.
Author: Richard I. Cashman Publisher: UNSW Press ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 364
Book Description
"Selection from papers delivered at the second national conference on sports history held at the University of New South Wales in June 1979'- Introd.
Author: Sanders Dewees Bruce Publisher: ISBN: Category : Horses Languages : en Pages : 1786
Book Description
Including the Arabs, Barbs and Spanish horses, from the earliest accounts of racing in America, to the end of the year ... ; also all the native mares, and their produce, alphabetically arranged, with an appendix, giving pedigrees of all the native stallions whose dams have no names, with full and copious index to produce of the mares.
Author: Bill Edgar Publisher: Penguin Group Australia ISBN: 176014570X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you’ve never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish – a task you need carried out before you can rest in peace. Now imagine there’s a man who can take care of all that, who has no respect for the living, who will do anything for the dead. Bill Edgar is the Coffin Confessor – a one-of-a-kind professional, a man on a mission to make good on these last requests on behalf of his soon-to-be-deceased clients. And this is the extraordinary story of how he became that man. Bill has been many things in this life: son of one of Australia’s most notorious gangsters, homeless street-kid, maximum-security prisoner, hard man, family man, car thief, professional punching bag, philosopher, inventor, private investigator, victim of horrific childhood sexual abuse and an activist fighting to bring down the institutions that let it happen. A survivor. As a little boy, he learned the hard way that society is full of people who fall through the cracks – who die without their stories being told. Now his life’s work is to make sure his clients’ voices are heard, and their last wishes delivered: the small-town grandfather who needs his tastefully decorated sex dungeon destroyed before the kids find it. The woman who endured an abusive marriage for decades before finding freedom. The outlaw biker who is afraid of nothing . . . except telling the world he is in love with another man. The dad who desperately needs to track down his estranged daughter so he can find a way to say he's sorry, with one final gift. Confronting and confounding, heartwarming and heartbreaking, The Coffin Confessor is a compelling story of survival and redemption, of a life lived on the fringes of society, on both sides of the law – and what that can teach you about living your best life . . . and death.
Author: Jim Cassidy Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Aus. ISBN: 1925483843 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 356
Book Description
'Just what you'd expect from the master horseman they called Pumper: cheeky, funny, brash, unrepentant...a rollicking good read.' Les Carlyon Champion Jockey Jim Cassidy is the ultimate 'colourful racing identity'. In a stellar 38-year career, 'The Pumper' won 104 Group 1 races, including two Melbourne Cups - the first in 1983 on Kiwi, a $1000 farm horse, where Cassidy came from dead-last to win; the second a famous redemption ride on Might and Power in 1997. Brilliance in the saddle and bald-faced cheek in the press made Cassidy the Australian racetrack's most beloved and controversial character. His horse whispering gifts, gambler's charm and maverick wit always made him a favourite with the punters, trainers and journalists...but rarely officialdom. Cassidy's fast life and uncensored opinions led to his exile after the Jockey Tapes scandal in the '90s. Broke but never broken, he fought back. And even when he was back page and front page news, Cassidy's popularity never waned. As he'd quip in victory, 'Ring-a-ding-ding, Pumper's the king!' Honest, heartfelt and often hilarious, Pumper is Jim Cassidy's explosive autobiography - a page-turning thrill-ride through his many adventures on and off the track.
Author: Zeb Armstrong
Author: Zeb Armstrong
Author: Duncan Stearn
Author: Jessica Owers
Author: Richard I. Cashman
Author: 
Author: Sanders Dewees Bruce
Author: Bill Edgar
Author: Bill Sigley
Author: Jim Cassidy
Author: Geological Survey of Western Australia