b'The Great Eastern Mail DECEMBER 2, 2022 19racing & sportTHE AGONY ANDBAIRNSDALE\'S FORGOTTEN CHAMPTHE ECSTACY HE Bairnsdale Racing O how are we all goingfalling off. T Club now has a S with the Soccer WorldWHACKER Every course should be likesummer racing hiatus for over three months. That\'s Cup? Two rounds in andCaulfield with a monumenta hard one to understand in Australia had kicked a goal inONto the hundreds of jockeysone of the country\'s premier THE WING! each game. who have lost their lives toholiday destinations. It leaves Federation Squareremind us all of the dangervery little racing news for exploded with flares and otherthey face. There aren\'t manylocal fans, so while there\'s projectiles. Fans engaged inoccupations where youan opportunity let\'s turn the en masse kissing and huggingget followed around by anclock back a little.that Mardi Gras marchersambulance. Next year is the Golden could only dream about. Motor cycle racing isAnniversary of the birth of In one game the Germansmaybe more dangerous.who many regard was the tried to make some obscureJust one example is the Islegreatest athlete, man or beast, political statement byOf Man course where, into leave our town. It is a story covering their mouths.The young physio: "Ah no,its history, 265 have diedthat has been largely ignored Covering your goal wouldsorry mate. It\'s broken in twoincluding six so far this year.by the racing industry for have been a better move, boys.places." That is a staggering attritiona long time and it is one of That way you mightn\'t haveThey breed them toughrate. Maybe we need to slowthe best. After 50 years it\'sTrainer George Hanlon with Family Of Man in 1980gone down in a shock result toout there in the Pacific.down a little and race ridea chance to remember a Japan, two goals to one.Samoa (population lesson mowers and mobilityforgotten champion. and the first horse to pass thecrowd to any sports event ever We have seen somethan Geelong) are now ascooters. half million dollar mark. Heheld in the Bairnsdale district spectacular goals withpowerhouse in internationalBase jumping, big waveTHE FORGOTTENwas also intelligent, strong,such was his popularity.backward flicks of the heelrugby, making the recentsurfing, sky diving, bull riding,CHAMPION brave, kind natured, versatileHe was our horse. He was or overhead scissor kicks,Rugby League World Cupbull fighting (especially forPLUCKED from the obscurityand as tough as ironbark. Notour champion. but why do soccer playersfinal. No Samoan team inbulls) and boxing all carry aof a dry, dusty outbackbad for a horse who wasn\'tHe was Family Of Man.persist with their theatrics andQatar though; their actingsignificant level of risk and dopaddock, a colt, with awanted by his trainer. How did a fine young diving? skills just aren\'t up to it. incur fatalities. pedigree just as obscure,As a thoroughbredthoroughbred colt, with a A slight tap to the shinSeriously, though, who areEven rock fishing has onewould grow up to breakspecimen he had no peer.few kangaroos and emus for or ankle they go down inour bravest sportsmen andof the highest mortality ratesrecords on Australia\'s majorA rich bay with a whitemates, end up in outback a screaming heap, funnilywomen? Jockeys, particularlyof any sport in Australia.racetracks, to sire Groupblaze and two white hindNSW in a paddock so big the enough, holding their head. cross country riders, must200 have died since 2004,winning sons and daughters,feet, he was a standout onfences were over the horizon?That\'s the differencebe near the top. The greatincluding 10 in NSW just thisto have Slim Dusty sing abouta racecourse. Although heThe history of Australian between soccer and rugby. InPaddy Flood, championyear. That\'s why we fish athim and to even meet thenever saw him race, he was asracing is an intricately soccer when you aren\'t hurtIrish cross country riderTommy Finn\'s Trout farm.Queen.Shakespeare said: woven story and many of you try to let your opponentwho had won an Irish GrandThey\'ll even bait your hookThe 50th anniversary of"The paragon of animals." the major characters are part think you are. In Rugby whenNational, the Coral Cup atand clean your fish if you\'rethe year of his birth is both aAbove all he was theof the Family Of Man tale. you are hurt you try to let yourChelteham and was buildingsilly enough to catch one. reminder and an introduction."Flying Bay From Bairnsdale".His chapter includes one of opponent think you aren\'t. an impressive CV in AustraliaSo enjoy the remainingWe need reminding what aOwners Ray Richards andAustralia\'s great trainers, every Rugby boys are toughuntil a shattered leg in a trial atgames of the Soccer Worldsuperstar he was. For thoseJack Cuthbertson paid the billschampion jockey of that era, and courageous. A youngCranbourne ended his career.Cup. Players will still gotoo young and not fortunateand collected plenty of bigthe first Australian billionaire, Melbourne Storm IslanderPaddy had broken mostdown like ducks at a shootingenough to see him race, it isfat cheques, but if you wereour most famous bush came out of a bone shakingbones in his body, includinggallery and writhe in agonyan introduction to a forgottenborn blessed with a trickle ofballadeer and even the Queen crash holding a leg. A youngthe same collar bone elevenuntil priests administer lastchampion. Gippsland blood in your veins,and Prince Phillip. That\'s quite physio ran out to survey thetimes. With typical Irishrites, but at the end of theThere are not manyyou shared the roller coastera cast.damage.humour Paddy explains heday they all will arrive homesuperlatives that can\'t beride of his highs and lows, hisIf it was fiction no one The young Islander: "Just awouldn\'t have broken sosafely at the conclusion of theapplied to the colt. 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