Best Australian Racing Stories by Jim Haynes

Best Australian Racing Stories by Jim Haynes

Author:Jim Haynes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SPO021000
ISBN: 9781742691442
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
Published: 2010-10-01T04:00:00+00:00


How Babs Malone Cut Down the Field

Barcroft Henry Boake

Now the squatters and the ‘cockies’,

Shearers, trainers and their jockeys

Had gathered them together for a meeting on the flat;

They had mustered all their forces,

Owners brought their fastest horses,

Monaro-bred—I couldn’t give them greater praise than that.

’Twas a lovely day in Summer—

What the blacksmith called ‘a hummer’,

The swelling ears of wheat and oats had lost their tender green,

And breezes made them shiver,

Trending westward to the river—

The river of the golden sands, the moaning Eucumbene.



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