<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66078" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66220">My working days at the track started the day Coolalinga won the Newmarket for Cyril Beechey, I think (1974? Maybe 1975). I worked with Arthur Browning on the interstate rails for about 12 or 13 years before a good friend decided he needed a penciller/bagman. So I left the metropolitan meetings and started regular Kembla/Canberra trips with Saturday nights at Wentworth Park thrown in when travel allowed.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66078" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66078" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66292">Good days then. A real blast. Calling the odds, including the fractions... loved it! I've visited Rosehill a couple of times on recent trips home and its all very clinical now.. shame, but that's progress (or is it regress?) :) Cheers.</span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66082"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66104">Rob </div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66102"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66087" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66086"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66085"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66084"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66083"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tony Moffat <tonymoffat@bigpond.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Rob Creighton' <ozrob1711@yahoo.com>; 'AusRace Racing Discussion List' <racing@ausrace.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 9, 2017 5:12 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [AusRace] Tarcoola - The Horse and the House<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66092"><br><div id="yiv5557993541"><style>#yiv5557993541 #yiv5557993541 --
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#yiv5557993541 </style><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66091"><div class="yiv5557993541WordSection1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66090"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66101"><span style="">Rob, Phil, Stuart and some lurkers who responded otherwise – thanks</span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66096"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66352"><span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66351">Dad and Mum lived at ‘Tarcoola’ between 1966 and 1970 – so, not from 1956 as I typed.</span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66089"><span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66088">I worked for a few months for Pitt, Son and Badgery, lumping still, and in the Winchombe,Carson wool store –the floor boards were 9 inches thick.</span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66354"><span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66353">and the internal uprights were 4 feet by four feet, and three stories tall –that is solid wood – funny how that sticks, as does the name</span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66356"><span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66355">of a cat and a girls nick name but not her real name, although she was born on February 29. I’m losing it, man.</span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66358"><span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66357">I left town in the new school year to go to school in Sydney, a Uni requirement, and supported myself by working in a laundry and dry cleaner shop in the afternoons and evenings.</span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal"><span style="">I returned on Saturday mornings, often by train from Central, to play footie returning on the 2100 hour train to get home after midnight if the ferry was running, or I took the bike down there on Friday and came back on Sunday, it depends where we were playing though, Canberra more often.</span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal"><span style="">I was in the banking trade momentarily and I worked for bookmakers Terry and Kevin on summer Saturdays but the bank did not approve so I became the greenkeepers bitch at a golf club, and stayed with Terry. I went from there to eventually working on the bag or pencilling or both for Lew Weymiss, I wrote about that previously, at the red hots in the Riverina area, then in Melbourne at the races.</span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal"><span style="">Cheers</span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal"><span style="">Tony</span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv5557993541yqt0568244731" id="yiv5557993541yqt71941"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;"> Racing [mailto:racing-bounces@ausrace.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rob Creighton<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 8, 2017 11:38 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> AusRace Racing Discussion List <racing@ausrace.com><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusRace] Tarcoola - The Horse and the House</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal"> </div><div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6222"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Yes, it was (an interesting read). Thanks for sharing.</span></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6262"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6301"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Tony, it brought back memories of days in the 70's when I used to haul greyhounds to race at Queanbeyan. As we left Goulburn heading South, I took a left turn a couple of hundred yards from the address you mentioned.... and yes, they were yards not metres :)</span></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6261"><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6324"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6326"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">I think the last time I wnet through there was on the way home from Canberra races in about 1984 or 1985. We were fielding back then trying to earn our way onto the metropolitan tracks. There were a couple of young-ish (compared to me in my mid-30s) brothers who basically led the ring. I think either one or both of them made it t0 the Saturday metrop meetings but we decided it was more profitable to be on the ground rather than on the stand. That decision, coupled with our best form analyst going to work for Mark Read, eventually led to our group dissolving.</span></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6450"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6471"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">But, obviously, I digress. Suffice to say Tony, your story brought back many memories and for that I'm truly grateful</span></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6473"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6475"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Cheers all.</span></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6477"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6223"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Rob </span></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6224"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6230"><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6229"><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6228"><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6227"><div align="center" class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span><hr align="center" size="1" width="100%"></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6238"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> Phil Buckland <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:phil@buckland.id.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:phil@buckland.id.au">phil@buckland.id.au</a>><br clear="none"><b id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6235">To:</b> 'AusRace Racing Discussion List' <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:racing@ausrace.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:racing@ausrace.com">racing@ausrace.com</a>> <br clear="none"><b id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6241">Sent:</b> Friday, September 8, 2017 3:14 AM<br clear="none"><b id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6244">Subject:</b> Re: [AusRace] Tarcoola - The Horse and the House</span><span style=""></span></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6247"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6246"><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="">Interesting Read Tony</span></div></div><div class="yiv5557993541MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2">
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