[AusRace] A Day at the Races - the early 70's

Tue Feb 27 21:10:34 AEDT 2018

Ah, Analie, a good mare.  Won a Doncaster as a 3yo filly and a Metropolitan
later the same year.
Were you in the delivery room Tony?
A very retrograde step when the feminists insisted it was the done thing.
Sending men to pre-natal classes was just the first step in the
demasculization of western man.  Anyone with expectant women, resist for
all it's worth. Cigars and whiskey in the waiting room is the go.

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On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Tony Moffat <tonymoffat at bigpond.com> wrote:

> 8.3+++++++++ Day at the Races – the early 70’s
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> My youngest daughter was born on January 28, in a house, a mansion really,
> on Mt Alexander Road at 7.12am. I was there, all the expectant participants
> were there. Mother and daughter were fine, and sleepy, and as I had control
> of the others, and it was sleepy time in the wards, we left. It had been
> discussed about going to South Melbourne football ground, and No.1 was
> dressed for it, denim shorts and a South Melbourne jumper, modified, taken
> in, darted, and there was supposed to be a hootenanny there, my ill-chosen
> words. Her teacher is married to a Swan man who lately has been playing for
> Geelong. Good Lord.
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> We didn’t go there.
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> When you left the hospital you can hear the course commentator at Moonee
> Valley, one block to the east and you can see the tops of the grandstands,
> their higher now, and the next three trams turned that way. I had to factor
> in age, gender, toilet, food, and of course I had to be responsible.
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> We went to the races, I paid and the entourage got ushered through and we
> walked up the rising ground to end up at the side of the grandstand in the
> shade. There were no playground implements then, unlike now, but there was
> interesting things, there was a crowd really and I found us a position in
> the shade, left the eldest with the youngest, and took the others to ablute
> and food hunting. There is a fine selection of children style food there,
> and I chose well, correctly then, although my pick of a pluto pup was
> looked at askance. Another round of visiting the toilets and it was almost
> the start of the 4th, which we watched as it was 3yo fillies, some
> without form.
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> The next was the William Reid, the favourite was Analie, Higgins and New
> Gleam, Midge Didham. I liked Wandle, a 2yo, a filly, in WFA Group1, but her
> last run she was beaten by Tangent in a dead heat second at the Valley when
> favourite in course record time and before that she won, at the Valley, by
> 12 lengths at 25/1, a head kicking up that straight. Pat Trotter took over
> from Brian Gilders in this race and she was 33/1 when I had a $5 place. I
> backed All Shot straight out who won in course record time and paid $6.40,
> and Wandle paid $5.90 for 3rd, she was $6 place with the books. Tauto came
> second. Funny that I stay out of 3yo races yet back a 2yo filly in a WFA
> against all age and sex. Her performance that race nearly selected my
> runner in the last, more on that soon.
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> We did a stable tour and patted a few, including Immortal Time, missed a
> race, and got back with ice creams just as they were warming up. I was
> being responsible and supervising when told by the eldest that I should
> back ‘that horse’ (immortal Time) because it had a plaited mane. So I did,
> my $5 plunge on it and Venture On, for a place, both ridden by apprentices,
> Robert Heffernan was one. Venture On won at 8/1 by 5 len and Immortal Time
> was second ($19.40) – wish you could bottle it.
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> When I backed those two, I also had Tangent for a win in the last and,
> further, while reading and being the Dad, found Sans Peur (Heffernan)
> solely off his ride in the previous, and some form, and we all went to back
> it. They went 1st and third ($6.00 and $6.00) so I was rapt, you’d think
> and you would be right. It was hot late in the day, and it was after
> 5.00pm, visiting hours down the road. We bought flowers from the cart
> vendor, chocolates.
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> There may be a certain amount of narcissism when the co-author takes his
> kids out, they are handsome, I am tall, so there is a little of either in
> each. There were smiles and comments from a wide spectrum of unknowns this
> day, the first in a new life.
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> New Mum was tired, hungry, and nursing when we got there but said it
> sounds like we had a good day. We did. Don’t worry, I didn’t lose any, made
> a bit, acted responsibly. We had a café meal, not fish and chips after that
> lunch, meatballs and spaghetti and a tram ride for an hour when it was very
> late for some. They said it was a good day, and can we do it tomorrow, I
> wish we could.
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> All Shot won more after that ending with a 6th in the Blamey Stakes.
> Wandle ran 1.75 lengths 4th in Oakleigh Plate. Tangent ran distanced in
> the Lightning Stakes and also the Oakleigh Plate
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> To me there seemed to be more journeymen runners then, they win, but they
> need everything to go right, Mulligatawny, Wakiti Creek, Irlandais. Now,
> with everyday racing this is not so apparent.
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> Cheers
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> Tony
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> Subject not to be confused with a record of the same name
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