Read more adventures of Wayne Peak and Ton Currie and The Yobboes as they bumble their way to The Cup.
Almanac Horseracing – Confessions of a teenage racegoer of the 1970s Part III: Melbourne Cup mayhem
Filed Under: Almanac Comedy, Almanac Horseracing, Almanac Life, Life story, Memoir (general) Tagged With: Glenrowan, Gundagai, hard luck stories, racegoers, teenagers, The Melbourne Cup, Young & Jackson Hotel
Almanac Horseracing – Confessions of a teenage racegoer of the 1970s Part II: ‘Ton’ Currie and the Yobboes
In the second in a series of abstracts from the chapter ‘Confessions of a Teenage Racegoer’ from the book ‘Sydney Racing in the 1970s: an Illustrated Companion’, Wayne Peake introduces us to The Yobboes which included blokes like Ton Currie, Pretty Boy and Bad Ronald. [You may recognise a former life here – Ed]
Filed Under: Almanac Horseracing, Almanac Horseracing Tagged With: 'Ton' Currie, 1970s, Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs, gamblers, hard luck stories, Harold Park, horseracing, jockeys, Keith Miller, malcolm Johnston, racecourses, racegoers, Sydney, teenagers, Wauchope races
The Cup Day Quaddie
A Cup Day tale from Andrew Fithall that many of us can relate to.
Filed Under: Almanac Horseracing, Almanac Horseracing Tagged With: Cup Day Quaddie, hard luck stories, hard luck yarns, Melbourne Cup
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