Not to mention timber sulky shafts. Len Towers and Les Hildebrandt both met grizzly ends. Neil Cavallaro's top filly Rosewood Dream copped a broken shaft through the neck at Bendigo one night.
A much safer sport now. Some might say blander, I say less gladatorial.
Carl trained Hanna's Boy, one of the more obscure Hunter Cup winners. 1979 from memory.
Yeah, the marvelous sight of beaten favourites and their drivers being pelted with drink cans as the returned to scale is sorely missed by bogans everywhere.
The steel back wall and roof of the AG Hunter Stand wise like a giant speaker system and the boos resonated throughout the Ascot Vale night. You'll never hear anything like it these days because our administrators think they are catering for the public. Die-hards at the Showgrounds were happy with a bag of doughnuts, a cup of flavoured milk or, more likely, a few pots of beer from a pop-up bar in a cattle pavilion.
Gee, I wish I hadn't thought of the doughnuts, I know have the urge to have the roof of my mouth seared and my bottom lip and chin scalded by some red-hot raspberry jam!
Hi Bob,
The starter was George Rowse my grandfather. He was also a Foundation Member of the Ballarat Club before going to work for the Trotting Control Board (Now HRV).
Thanks Wayne, I think the Inter is bigger than any one Club and consistency throughout the series would be paramount in the Event organisers thinking.
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With the redevelopment of The Showgrounds being in the news this month - given $1.5m to develop a Master Plan
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/ne...4f292f54aeb138
I don't suppose there is any chance of a trotting track
After all the 2017 Back to Wayville meet attracted more people than Melton's ID18 despite their smaller population
Nostalgia
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