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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I agree, so different from the old days….you cant even play up to the bookmakers now, or they play up to you, eg recent years ‘90’s Mark Reed was a real character of the ring<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Racing [mailto:racing-bounces@ausrace.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rob Creighton<br><b>Sent:</b> 12 September 2017 2:50 AM<br><b>To:</b> Tony Moffat; 'AusRace Racing Discussion List'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusRace] Tarcoola - The Horse and the House<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66078"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66078"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66078"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66082"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66104"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Rob <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66102"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66087"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66086"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66085"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66084"><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Tony Moffat <<a href="mailto:tonymoffat@bigpond.com">tonymoffat@bigpond.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> 'Rob Creighton' <<a href="mailto:ozrob1711@yahoo.com">ozrob1711@yahoo.com</a>>; 'AusRace Racing Discussion List' <<a href="mailto:racing@ausrace.com">racing@ausrace.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 9, 2017 5:12 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [AusRace] Tarcoola - The Horse and the House</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66092"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=yiv5557993541><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66091"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66090"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Rob, Phil, Stuart and some lurkers who responded otherwise – thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66096"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66352"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Dad and Mum lived at ‘Tarcoola’ between 1966 and 1970 – so, not from 1956 as I typed.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66089"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66354"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66356"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505092340898_66358"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Tony<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=yiv5557993541yqt71941><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> Racing [<a href="mailto:racing-bounces@ausrace.com">mailto:racing-bounces@ausrace.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rob Creighton<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 8, 2017 11:38 PM<br><b>To:</b> AusRace Racing Discussion List <<a href="mailto:racing@ausrace.com">racing@ausrace.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusRace] Tarcoola - The Horse and the House</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6222"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Yes, it was (an interesting read). Thanks for sharing.</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6262"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6301"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6261"><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6324"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6326"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6450"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6471"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>But, obviously, I digress. Suffice to say Tony, your story brought back many memories and for that I'm truly grateful</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6473"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6475"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Cheers all.</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6477"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6223"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Rob </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6224"><div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></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 class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6238"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> Phil Buckland <<a href="mailto:phil@buckland.id.au" target="_blank">phil@buckland.id.au</a>><br><b id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6235">To:</b> 'AusRace Racing Discussion List' <<a href="mailto:racing@ausrace.com" target="_blank">racing@ausrace.com</a>> <br><b id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6241">Sent:</b> Friday, September 8, 2017 3:14 AM<br><b id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6244">Subject:</b> Re: [AusRace] Tarcoola - The Horse and the House</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6247"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv5557993541yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1504884359979_6246"><div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Interesting Read Tony<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id=yiv5557993541DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=2 width="99%" noshade style='color:#909090' align=center></span></div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0cm 11.25pt 0cm 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.avg.com/internet-security" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1028" src="http://static.avast.com/emails/avg-mail-stamp.png" alt="AVG logo"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3D4D5A'>This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. <br><a href="http://www.avg.com/internet-security" target="_blank">www.avg.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>