Best Australian Racing Stories (13 page)

Grand Flaneur depicted on a cigarette card. He was the only undefeated Melbourne Cup winner.

Carbine at age four with trainer Walter Hickenbotham and VRC Chairman R.G. Casey. (Courtesy of ARM)

Carbine wins the 1889 Sydney Cup. This painting hangs in the AJC office at Randwick. (Courtesy of AJC)

The mighty mare Wakeful posing for the camera for an early newspaper poster.

(Courtesy of ARM)

A postcard showing Western Australian champion Eurythmic with F. Dempsey in the saddle. (Courtesy of ARM)

Amounis wins the 1930 Caulfield Cup and sets up the biggest Cups double betting coup of all time. (Courtesy of ARM)

Phar Lap runs away with the 1930 Melbourne Cup, becoming the shortest priced winner in history. (Courtesy of ARM)

Phar Lap wins his last race at Agua Caliente and races into immortality on 20 March 1932.

(Courtesy of AJC)

Jim Bendrodt chats to his good mate, champion jockey Billy Cook. (Courtesy of ARM)

Bernborough leads out the field at Flemington before carrying 63 kg to victory in the Newmarket Handicap on 2 March 1946. (Courtesy of Ern McQuillan/AJC)

Bernborough ridden at trackwork by Athol George Mulley. (Courtesy of AJC)

Tulloch in action in an exhibition gallop, carrying the colours of A.E.

Healey—the only colours he ever carried. (Courtesy of AJC)

A very young Gai Waterhouse sits on Tulloch's back as her father, Tommy Smith, holds the great champion. (Courtesy of Brett Costello/Newspix)