Remember When

[trish]

Hey Trish, my fondest memory of your father was the way he would go around the outside fence walking his horse before the start.....punters would run down to the fence and yell out, "Hey Joe can you win tonight?"......he was always honest and often said "he had no chance, or it needs the run!".....He was a beauty!
Now he would be getting fined for talking on the track!

Yes he did do that ALL the time but It did not escape Mr Pascoe!!! The stories I could tell.............................in Dads last few months he told Mark & Myself some great stories, we looked after him & spent plenty of time with him & he loved to recall his fondest memories, we were just fortunate enough that he told us, not sure he told anyone else. One of my favourites was when he got offered Steel Trader for $25,000 . That was huge money and he grabbed a shovel and dug up an old inner tube that was tied at each end with wire . Inside was enough saturated bills to make up most of it . We had to empty a room and lay each bill out on the floor until the floor was covered and we dried it all . After Dad passed away we cleaned up and Mark found one single gum boot hanging in the shed . He asked "why would he keep one boot ". We found $2000 wrapped up in mums purse inside . We shared it out with all the workers . Times have changed and good stories don't seem to be being made these days .