Ladies in RACING Autumn/Winter 2019 Issue 33

Autumn/Winter 2019 Issue #33

A FAREWELL TO MIGHTY MARE WINX

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CONTENTS 1 Contents 2 From the Publisher 4 Regular Contributors 5 Letters to the Publisher 6 WINX – A Great Lady of Racing New Faces Take Centre Stage 14 in Million-Dollar Races Racing Victoria’s New Apprentice 15 Jockeys

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Welcome to My Next Winner Diane Murphy From Track Rider to Trainer

62 Winter Racing Fashion Trends 64 Perri Cutten Winter Fashion 68 Magic Millions Fashion at the Track

69 Magic Millions Launch Party Kristen Buchanan Believes in Good 70 Energy

72 The Annual Casino Beef Week Races 73 Renee Bartlett Opryszko – Secretary/ Kate Grimwade Keeps the Wins Coming Manager Casino Racing Club 18 Dr Jill Colwell An Australian Sporting Lynn Locke 17 Years as the CEO of the 20 74 Treasure – Part 2 Shoalhaven City Turf Club Christine Puls Named 2019 Lady of Racing

26 The 2019 Apsley Racing Club Cup Harness Racing Victoria’s Fearless 28 Reinswomen

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It’s Time to Frock up for the Annual Girls Day Out at Shoalhaven City Turf Club!

Goldners and their CEO – Clare Oxley 30 On the Road with Sharon Lee Chapman 76 WA Fashions on the Field 78 Channel Seven’s Brisbane Racing 34 Northam Race Club – A Picturesque Carnival 79 Town with a Vibrant Event Calendar 36 The Tiara’s Feminine Touch Cheltenham Festival Thursday Puts 80 Tattersall’s Tiara Race Day

Females to the Fore 39 Students Come from Across Australia 40 The 2019 Heineken Gold Coast Cup 83 for Explorer Cadetship Program 41 The Ergon Energy Warwick Picnic Races 84 Cruising is Roaring into the Twenties Kristen Doyle – Secretary Warwick 41 Turf Club Soothe Menopause Symptoms with 86 Magnesium National Support Team Supporting 42 Australian Athletes 88 What We Love Mildred Elwood Wins FOTF 44 Cairns Amateurs 2019 89 Queen Elizabeth Stakes Day 47 Ladies in RACING Subscription

90 The 2019 HATalk Competition 48 Ladies GOLF Subscription Milliners Profile - Catherine Kelly An Inexpensive Way to Become a Part- 91 50 Owner of a Racehorse 92 Millinery We Love Blueblood Thoroughbred Syndication in 53 94 On Our Bookshelf the Southern Highlands Advertisers Index 55 Thoroughbred Leasing – The Economic 96 Alternative

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elcome to the Autumn Winter Issue of of Ladies in RACING Magazine which we are sure you will enjoy.

We are indeed fortunate to have witnessed a great lady of racing, WINX, the Mighty Mare and most of Australia have followed her career over the years with great interest. Winx won 37 of her 43 races, including 25 at Group 1 level and concluding her racing career with 33 wins in succession.

Her racing career came to an end when she raced in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Royal Randwick on April 13th. Stephen Howell, Editor of Slattery Media’s Inside Racing Magazine pays tribute to Winx with several stories highlighting her longevity commencing on page 6.

Congratulations must go to Jamie Kah, who at 23 is having her second stint at racing in Melbourne.

Jamie had a big boost to her career when the South Australian registered her Group 1 win when she was successful in the 1.5 million Australian Cup on Harlem, trained by the partnership of David & Ben Hayes & Tom Dabernig. Harlem started at the juicy odds of 30/1.

Jamie has overcome several obstacles in her career to date and you can read more about her journey commencing on page 14.

Jockey Christine Puls was named the winner of the Victorian Wakeful Club, Lady of Racing Award for 2019. Christine became the 24th winner of the coveted award, which is run by the Victorian Wakeful Club in partnership with Racing Victoria and aims to celebrate ladies who have made an outstanding contribution to the Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding Industries. Christine’s story starts on page 16.

Racing Victoria has inducted 10 new apprentice jockeys into the Apprentice Jockey Training Program this year. All aiming to become the next stars of the saddle, unsurprisingly six are female and four are male. We wish them all the best with their new career.

How far we have travelled since as 1980, when Dr Jill Colwell was the first lady jockey to ride at the famous Birdsville Races, where there were no changing rooms for the female jockeys. Jill had to shower in the male changing rooms and with no shower curtains she was shielded by a helpful lady in a large tent dress, who had agreed to help her. Read part two Jill’s’ amazing life story starting on page 20.

Sharon Lee Chapman and Mark Lee from Fast Track Photography, have produced a series of limited edition of Winx prints and posters, so go to pages 5 and 43 to find out how to purchase your piece of History.

Congratulations to five winners of our Ambassador Travel Subscription Prize of a $300 travel voucher.

They are Jane Alexopoulos, Lorraine Cathels, and Heather Herron from Victoria, and Elena Long and Marnie Wilmott from Queensland.

What an exciting time it is for Queensland Racing with the launch of the TAB QLD Winter Racing Carnival. With eight history rich Group 1 classics, $18.5 Million in prize money, including the $4 million TAB Stradbroke Handicap.

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Regular Contributor Profiles

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SHARON LEE CHAPMAN

ROSS STEVENSON

In 2011 Sharon Lee Chapman shot to world-wide photographic prominence with her headline imagery of Banna Strand leaping into an unsuspecting audience at the Warrnambool Grand Annual.

Receiving the prestigious ‘Quill Award’ for her work that has graced many newspaper and magazine covers including the New York Times, Sharon Lee captures so many emotional and intriguing moments that really tell a story and best summarise for so many the continual allure and romance of racing.

Sharon is the Managing Director of Fast Track Photography

Ross got involved in photography when he started racing horses with his brother. Now he is one of the leading racing photographers in Australia and has had much of his work published in some of the leading horse racing publications in Australia - such as Racetrack, Best Bets, Winning Post and of course the Ladies in RACING Magazine.

Ross is a popular photographer for many Fashion on the Field competitions.

TIM GUILLE

VICTORIA SHAW

Dr JILL COLWELL MB BS (HONOURS)

Catching the thoroughbred bug from a very young age, Tim Guille has always had a passion for racing. Be it as an spectator, owner, or punter, he is never far away from the racetrack with form guide and binoculars in hand.

His writing has featured in a wide variety of publications in the thoroughbred and sporting industry over the last 7 years. He has always had a passion for people, and this has led him to focussing his writing on sharing the stories of the the people and characters that work tirelessly to make the magic happen in the sport of kings. You can tweet or follow him on twitter @timbguille or his Facebook page Behind the Barrier

As the only woman in Australia to actively broadcast live racing trackside and on TV and radio, Victoria Shaw is the first woman to go beyond the typical roles for women within racing and the media.

With former television and live radio work to her credit, Victoria continually strives to push boundaries for women within Australian racing and around the world as a race caller.

The diversity of her broadcasting opportunities have taken her from ‘off the beaten track’ to working for Arabic royalty and meeting unique and hardworking industry participants that aren't mainstream, but constantly revealing many ‘racing gems’ as a part of her quest.

Jill was born in 1952 and grew up riding horses on the family sheep property near Walgett.

She began riding track work in the 1970’s to help pay her way through Medical School. In 1977, Jill graduated from Sydney University as a doctor and has enjoyed working as a General Practitioner (GP) for most of the last forty years. Some great mentors have helped Jill pursue her other dreams, including: becoming one of the first females in Australia to gain a Professional Jockey’s licence in 1980. Representing Australia in the first World Athletic Championships in the Marathon, Helsinki 1983. Completing the Great Australian Camel Race from Ayers Rock to Gold Coast in 1988. Regaining her jockey’s licence at 61 years old to compete in Arabian Races 2013 – 2019.

MICHAEL HOWARD

DALE OLSSON

DAMIEN ANTHONY ROSSI

A journalist since age 17, Michael Howard enjoyed lengthy stints at Victorian country and metropolitan newspapers before joining Harness Racing Victoria as its Media and Communications Co-ordinator.

He’s revelled in the opportunity to not only celebrate the trots’ champions but to dig deep into a code that’s not just a sport, but is an industry, a business, a lifestyle and a passion for its many participants.

Dale has been an avid race goer all her life.

As the former owner of Brisbane’s iconic Millinery Boutique, The Hat Box, Dale forged strong connections with members of the racing and fashion industry.

She is a multiple Fashions on the Field winner and has judged many events throughout Queensland. Over the years Dale has hosted many events and has written for both newspapers and magazines.

Damien Anthony Rossi (aka Mr Hollywood in Oz!) is a Presenter on Channel 7’s popular lifestyle program The Great Day Out and one of Queensland’s leading social and fashion influencers.

DAR is Brisbane Racing Club’s inaugural Fashion Ambassador and serves in an ambassadorial role for many high-profile annual events including the Brisbane Racing Carnival, the Effervescence Champagne Festival and the Noosa Alive! Festival.

Follow Damien @mrhollywoodinoz

ROSS STANLEY

DANNY POWER

DEBBIE BURT

Ross is an educator by trade but has had a hobby career in the horse-racing media for more than four decades. Ross has contributed to newspapers and a website as a columnist and worked on radio.

He is am very involved in the sport as a photographer, as a long-time country racecaller and as a racing history feature writer.

Danny Power has been a journalist in the racing industry for more than 40 years, including stints at The Sporting Globe, The Herald, Herald Sun, Truth and The Australian. He also has worked as a racing manager for leading trainer Lee Freedman and a bloodstock consultant. Danny has been with The Slattery Media Group for 11 years, during which time his credits include the books The Modern Melbourne Cup (author), Racing In Australia (editor) and The Story of the Melbourne Cup (writer). He is a contributing editor and writer for Inside Racing magazine, and editor of Inside Breeding.

There a few aspects of the horseracing industry which Debbie Burt has not experienced: stud hand, stud secretary, groom, racing secretary, trainers PA, racing administrator, racing organisation PR and media executive, racehorse owner, race sponsor and trophy designer, however she has worked full-time as a freelance photographer and journalist since 2016.

Based in the UK, though travelling widely, her photographs and articles have been published in magazines and books worldwide, regularly appearing in Horse and Hound, International Thoroughbred, the French Purebred Arabian and of course Ladies in RACING.

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JENNY McALPINE Born into the world of breeding on the family's Eureka Stud, QLD, Jenny has tallied many years in a marketing career for the likes of Gai Waterhouse, NSW Breeders, Coolmore, David Hayes and Adam Sangster.

Based in Melbourne she currently operates for Lindsay Park, Sky Racing and Tattersalls UK and enjoys freelance writing for the thoroughbred industry.

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I have subscribed to your fashion magazine for quite a few years now and have been lucky enough to have my photo published in it a couple of times.

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WINX - A GREAT When Mighty Mare Winx ran and won her last race, she froze in time special memories for everyone she had touched or seen her. We all knew we were witness to a unique sporting achievement.

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n era ended amid much fanfare when Winx raced in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) at Randwick in Sydney on April 13, her partner-in-winning, jockey Hugh Bowman, saying the champion bowed out at the top of her game.

Winx won 37 of her 43 races, including 25 at Group 1 level and concluding with 33 wins in a row. She won four Cox Plates (2015-18), surpassing the great Kingston Town’s three (1980-82).

She was rated the best turf horse in the world, and regarded by many as the best horse of the past few seasons. Opinions on the latter assessment vary, depending mainly on which side of the equator you live, but it is fact that an American online poll of world racing last year ranked her No. 1 in the popularity parade.

She didn’t race outside Australia’s eastern states, but beat the few overseas raiders, including multiple Group 1 winners Godolphin’s Benbatl and Coolmore’s Highland Reel, who came from the northern hemisphere for the Cox Plate.

After good form at two and three, Winx was unbeatable at four, five, six and seven and lifted her standing above the champions of this century: dual Cox Plate winner Sunline (1999 and 2000 before finishing second and fourth behind another champion, Northerly, in the next two years); triple Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva (2003-05), who also won a Cox Plate (2005); and unbeaten sprinter Black Caviar, who travelled overseas in 2012 to win the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot, the 22nd of her 25 races.

Inevitably, came comparisons with the legend of the previous century Phar Lap, the sporting hero who, from 1929-32 during the world’s Great Depression, gave the people of Australia something to throw their hats into the air for.

That emotionally economic fact—apart from the near impossibility of comparing horses from different and much-changed eras—probably means Phar Lap will remain No. 1 forever.

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LADY of RACING Ladies in RACING Magazine is fortunate to have very talented contributors that have documented Winx’s stellar career. In the following pages, Stephen Howell, Editor of Inside Racing Magazine compiled a tribute to Winx’s story.

Winx winning Cox Plate win No. 4.

Story By Stephen Howell Photo Brett Holburt/Racing Photos

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COX PLATE VICTORIES

There’s no need to compare; just enjoy, which the connections who cuddled her throughout her career can finally do without race-day pressure—jockey Hugh Bowman, champion trainer Chris Waller, owners Peter and Patty Tighe, Debbie Kepitis and Richard Treweeke, and strapper Umut Odemislioglu—while they look forward to her next phase in life as a broodmare.

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Story by Stephen Howell • Images by Ross Stevenson

ith Winx there has been plenty to enjoy, not the least her four Cox Plates run over 2040 metres in the amphitheatre that is Moonee Valley for the trophy that is regarded as the weightfor-age championship of Australia.

2015, the first Bowman rode four-year-old Winx perfectly, sticking to the rails and surging clear up the hill before the 400-metre mark when the leader, The Cleaner, shifted out.

Winx ($4.60) broke the track record in beating Criterion ($6) by 4.75 lengths, with another 0.75 lengths to Highland Reel ($8) third. race facts: 14 ran. At 800m Winx was 5th, 1st at 400m. $3 million race, $1.8 million to the winner.

2016, the second Winx was expected to be fully tested by Hartnell, Godolphin’s Sydneytrained imported gelding who had won his past three starts, the last of which was the Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington.

The media reported that the five-year-old mare “made a real statement” when Bowman moved her up alongside Hartnell near the 600-metre mark and then raced to the lead … before Winx “went into overdrive” and shot away to win with a race-record margin.

Jockey James McDonald thought Hartnell had been travelling so well that he had the chance to beat the champion, but only for the briefest moment.

Winx ($1.80) beat Hartnell ($5) by eight lengths, with another 0.75 lengths to Yankee Rose ($13) third. race facts: 10 ran. At 800m Winx was 4th, 1st at 400m. $3 million race, $1.8 million to the winner.

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inx had three other races in Victoria, all at Group 1 level and all part of her winning streak.

After not having a lead-up race in Melbourne for the 2015 Cox Plate, she went around in the Group 1 Caulfield Stakes (2000 metres) at Caulfield in 2016, strolling home at $1.24 in a three-horse race from Black Heart Bart ($4.80), the West Australian star trained in Victoria

by Darren Weir and considered primed to test the champion, and the outclassed He Or She, trained by the Hayes family’s Lindsay Park team.

Hugh Bowman is fifth on the Australian jockey list behind only Damien Oliver (111), George Moore (104), Jim Cassidy (98) and Roy Higgins, all of whom have ridden/rode longer. Trainer Chris Waller had his first Group 1 win in 2008 with Triple Honour in the Doncaster and now is behind only Bart Cummings (245), Tommy Smith (243), Gai Waterhouse (139), Lee Freedman (127) and John Hawkes (112)—figures according to Racing In Australia, by Danny Power.

Winx has provided 24/25 of Bowman’s and Waller’s Group 1 wins.

In 2017 and 2018 the Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington replaced the Caulfield Stakes as Winx’s “prep” run, and again she had easy and impressive wins: in 2017 by 6.5 lengths at $1.20 from Ventura Storm, with Humidor third; in 2018 by a cruisy length at $1.10 from Youngstar, with Kings Will Dream third.

Bowman often said he was the lucky person who sat on Winx and steered—there’s no denying, however, he did that well— and Waller always pointed out that getting her to the track in winning shape was a team effort, but there’s no doubt that both are champions at their craft.

Winx’s final start was the 100th Group 1 win for Waller and for Bowman—85 in Australia plus 5 overseas (before April 13).

2017, the third

2018, the fourth

Winx, now six years old, had this Cox Plate sewn up by the turn, until along came the Darren Weir-trained Humidor, ridden by Blake Shinn.

Gaining ground quickly up the short straight, the challenger got to within a half-length with enough distance left to cause the upset of the century. Shinn, however, was to say recently: “I knew Hugh hadn’t asked her for full effort and when I ranged up she just responded as much as I challenged.”

Humidor went round against Winx again 12 months later, but was never in the hunt in finishing third. If there was a danger, it was Benbatl, with Oisin Murphy riding for Godolphin trainer Saeed bin Suroor after Pat Cosgrave had won the Caulfield Stakes on him. The visitor ran a good race, but Winx always had his measure and another piece of racing history was completed without fuss in running, although accompanied by plenty of it in the aftermath.

Winx ($1.18) beat Humidor ($31) by 0.4 lengths, with another 4.25 lengths to Folkswood ($26) third.

Winx ($1.24) beat Benbatl ($10) by two lengths, with another 2.75 lengths to Humidor ($21) third.

race facts: 8 ran. At 800m Winx was 5th, 2nd at 400m. $3 million race, $1.8 million to the winner.

race facts: 8 ran. At 800m Winx was 5th, 2nd at 400m. $5 million race, $3 million to the winner.

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Her Place with the Greats Story by Stephen Howell • Images by Ross Stevenson

WINX IN SEPIA

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WINX, the WONDER

acing photographer Vince Caligiuri put this photo—from the 2015 Cox Plate—and caption on Twitter before Winx’s final race:

Winx is a wonder horse, even winning “the race that isn’t a race”, the Wonder Race, a simulated 2000-metre weight-for-age clash between 12 champions. Phar Lap and Carbine filled the placings.

“As a young sport photographer I used to think how amazing it would’ve been to photograph Phar Lap … then #Winx came into our lives and solved that problem.”

The winner was determined on votes by retired racecaller John Tapp, form expert Gary Crispe and Daily Telegraph racing editor Ray Thomas—Tapp and Thomas had Winx as the winner, Timeform’s Crispe went for Phar Lap. Winx also won a reader poll with 40 per cent of the vote.

for the record: Phar Lap raced 51 times from 1929-1932 for 37 wins, three seconds and two thirds. The champion’s biggest wins included the AJC Derby, Victoria Derby, Cox Plate, Melbourne Cup and the Agua Caliente Handicap in Mexico, then North America’s richest race and his only start outside Australia.

He died soon after in California.

Thomas said Winx’s four-year winning sequence of 33, including 25 Group 1s, “is simply impossible to ignore”. He described her longevity and consistency as remarkable. Tapp said: “Look at this thoroughbred phenomenon from every possible viewpoint, and see if you can find fault. I can’t.’’

Crispe used his Timeform rating technology that had Phar Lap as a standout, and took into account each horse’s ability at 2000m to shape his selections.

In The Melbourne Cup, Australia’s Greatest Race—published by the Slattery Media Group in 2010 with the support of the Victoria Racing Club and the Herald Sun to commemorate the 150th Cup—Phar Lap won a similar “race”: the Greatest Cup Never Run. It, of course, was over 3200 metres and featured the 24 best Cup winners. Carbine and Makybe Diva were second and third.

Winx, of course, never ran in a Melbourne Cup. Trainer Chris Waller set her tasks between 1100 and 2200 metres.

Would she have had a chance at the staying distance?

Well, I won’t argue with what the doyen of racing writers, the late Les Carlyon, wrote in Andrew Rule’s biography of Winx: “I think Winx could win at two miles (3200m), simply because she settles so easily and saves everything for the last three furlongs.”

Behind the placegetters in the shorter Wonder Race were: Bernborough, Tulloch, Kingston Town, Peter Pan, Might And Power, Sunline, Makybe Diva, Lohnro and Octagonal.

Champion horse with champion trainer

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WINX

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BREEDING

b m 7, Street Cry (IRE)-Vegas Showgirl (NZ),

by Al Akbar

OWNERS

Magic Bloodstock Racing (Mgr P.G. Tighe), RG Treweeke, D.N. Kepitis

TRAINER

Chris Waller (Rosehill)

JOCKEYS:

Hugh Bowman

33 rides for 32 wins,

Jason Collett

5-2,

Tommy Berry

2-1,

Joao Moreira

1-0,

RACE RECORD

Larry Cassidy

1-1,

James McDonald

1-1

43 - 37 - 3 - 0

As a 2YO

2 for 2 wins

As a 3YO

10 for 4 wins

As a 4YO

7 for 7 wins

As a 5YO

8 for 8 wins

As a 6YO

8 for 8 wins

As a 7YO

8 for 8 wins

THE WINX ROSE: Rose grower Knight’s Roses has released a new rose to celebrate Winx’s career, describing it as “an extremely elegant garden rose with a pristine white colour”.

Why not blue and white, like the champion’s racing colours?

Rose expert Kelvin Trimper explained: “We have mauve and purple roses but, despite many dollars invested in research and rose breeding, a blue rose has never been achieved.”

The Winx Rose can be ordered at winxrose. com.au The National Jockeys Trust will receive $1 for every rose sold.

Winning streak:

33, from May 16, 2015

PRIZEMONEY

$26,451,175

GROUP 1 wins:

25

Distance won:

1100m-2200m

Shortest winning odds:

$1.05 (G1 George Ryder, 2018)

Longest winning odds:

$6.50 (G2 Furious Stakes, 2014)

Winning streak:

33

Four time wins

Cox Plate

(15,16,17,18)

George Ryder Stakes (16,17,18,19) Chipping Norton Stakes (16,17,18,19) Victorian wins (7)

Cox Plate 4, Turnbull Stakes 2, Caulfield Stakes

Beaten only as a 3YO, by:

First Seal (3 times), Adrift (First Seal 2nd), Fenway (First Seal 2nd) Gust Of Wind.

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The Last Race Queen Elizabeth Stakes Day April 13th 2019 Images by Sharon Lee Chapman

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NEW FACES TAKE CENTRE STAGE in Million-Dollar Races

At 23, Jamie Kah is having a second crack at racing in Melbourne; at 42, almost twice Jamie’s age, Barend Vorster is having his first.

Story by Stephen Howell as appeared in Inside Racing Image by John Denegan/ Racing Photos

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ifferent roads travelled led them to Flemington on Super Saturday where they announced they had arrived. It was South Australian Jamie’s first Group 1, and a big one at that—the $1.5 million Australian Cup (2000m) for David Hayes’ Lindsay Park team on imported roughie Harlem ($31), who had won it last year at $61 when Michael Walker rode.

South African Barend won the $1.25 million Newmarket Handicap (1200m) on the three-year-old filly Sunlight at only his third ride in Australia, and his first up the Flemington “straight six”, after a decade and a half in Singapore, where he had a handful of Group 1 wins.

He applied in November for the stable job in South Australia with Sunlight’s trainer Tony McEvoy after Jamie decided she would head to Melbourne again—she had a short stint with Mick Price at Caulfield when still an apprentice.

Barend got his win in the sixth race on Super Saturday, riding an established young star that was in the market at $13 and bravely led all the way, after which Tony said his new man was the first to apply when he advertised for a replacement.

All Tony had known about Barend was that he rode Rocket Man (Singapore’s champion sprinter), but “when I looked into him, I thought ‘wow’. “ I wanted someone to replace Jamie who was equally as good, if not better, and so I was happy to find him.”

Barend was happy Tony found him, his $37,500 riding fee from the $750,000 first prize was more than enough to pay for his relocation and bring wife Nikki and son Brendan (11).

Jamie - to her own surprise considering Barend’s odds and that he hadn’t won for 12 months - proved she, too, could be a successful Group 1 rider. “I knew I’d won, but I couldn’t have,” she said somewhat cryptically on returning to the jockeys’ room after Harlem held off Shillelagh by centimetres.

Her share of the $900,000 first prize is $45,000.

In both cases, money is not the main issue; rather they have put their names in lights and that will open up more opportunities.

Jamie, with guidance and great support from trainer John Macmillan, won the Adelaide premiership as an apprentice in 2012-13, her first full

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season, before moving to Melbourne the first time, for the second half of the 2013-14 season. She was then to win back-to-back Adelaide crowns before the latest move.

It wasn’t all plain sailing before those 2016-17 and 2017-18 premierships.

Worn out by early March 2015 she took an extended break from racing, but not horses - “It’s always horses,” she said.

Jamie told racing.com that she didn’t handle the ups and downs and “needed to go away and grow up”. She rode showjumpers in Holland while playing tourist and then rode work for trainers Sir Michael Stoute and Jeremy Gask (a South Australian) in England.

Refreshed, she came back to South Australia in August 2015. She worked at getting back and after an average first season won her next two premierships. The itch was there to get to every chance to make it on the big stage and, although the move was a wrench, she decided it was “now or never” and it was back to Victoria in mid-January.

Progress was slow until the week leading into the Australian Cup on March 9, with country doubles on the 7th and 8th a confidence booster.

Harlem was her second city winner and 13th win (six for Cranbournebased Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young, and three for Caulfield’s Clinton McDonald) in 51 days.

Jamie positioned Harlem beautifully in running behind the leading pair, Trap For Fools and The Taj Mahal, and came around only those two in the long run up the straight. Pushing Harlem’s head forward on the post ensured he held on. David Hayes said, “Jamie gave it an 11 out of 10 ride.”

Barend, barely 150cm tall, brought back memories of Peter Bakos, a tiny jockey in Victoria in the 1960s and ’70s. Tony’s new man rated Sunlight perfectly and she had a final kick to win comfortably.

She is the first three-year-old filly to win Victoria’s premier sprint since Alinghi in 2005. Like Sunlight, Alinghi beat the colts in the Coolmore Stud (Ascot Vale) Stakes in the spring.

Barend, winner of the Singapore jockeys’ premiership in 2004, his first full season there, won nearly 800 races in 16 years.

Tony, who had good early reports about Barend from Aussies with Singapore connections, was further impressed when the jockey paid his own way to Adelaide to check out Tony’s plans and his Angaston training property, the old Lindsay Park of the Hayes family.

Carleen Hefel Julian Welsh Laura Lafferty Michael Kent Emily Brown Matthew Williams Will Price Dan O’Sullivan Campbell Rawiller Logan McGill Jaden Lloyd Lindsay Park Kayla Atkinson Alicia Macpherson Matthew Cartwright Lyn Tolson Kiran Quilty Shane Nichols Celine Gaudry Pat Carey

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NEW APPRENTICE JOCKEYS Six female and four male aspiring riders will be inducted into Racing Victoria’s (RV) Apprentice Jockey Training Program (AJTP), all aiming to become the next stars of the saddle.

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he ten budding hoops include three teenagers whose fathers are Group 1-winning jockeys: Jaden Lloyd, whose father Jeff has dominated Queensland’s racing circuit for the past two decades; Will Price, whose dad Simon rode South Australian raider Balf’s Choice in the $5 million All-Star Mile at Flemington; and Campbell Rawiller, whose father Nash and uncle Brad have won multiple races at the elite level.

Jaden, who at 17 is the youngest of the trio, will be indentured to the Lindsay Park stable at Flemington; 19-year-old Will will start his apprenticeship under the watchful eye of his uncle, Ballarat-based trainer Dan O’Sullivan; and Mornington horseman Logan McGill will take Campbell, 18, under his wing.

The trio will be joined in the AJTP by seven other apprentices who will also aim to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Craig Williams, Beau Mertens, Ben Allen and Steph Thornton, who have all graduated from the elite program.

Laura Lafferty, 20, will combine her university studies with her apprenticeship with esteemed Cranbourne trainer, Mick Kent. The keen athlete, who regularly competes in domestic triathlon competitions, comes from a racing background, with Dad Peter a former jockey and her grandfather Kevin – who has a hurdle race named after him at Warrnambool – a renowned trainer.

Carleen Hefel, 29, has been riding trackwork and in trials and jump outs for several years, and will now begin her apprenticeship in Pakenham under trainer Julien Welsh.

In addition to Campbell, three other apprentices will also be based at stables in Mornington: Kiran Quilty (Shane Nichols), Celine Gaudry (Pat Carey) and Matthew Cartwright (Lyn Tolson).

Matthew is the youngest of the ten new recruits, but the 16-yearold comes from sound racing bloodlines with his father Rikki an accomplished jockey, and his grandmother (Tolson) running a small stable on the peninsula.

Similarly, Kiran’s father, Cameron, recorded more than 200 career victories in the saddle, and his 18-year-old daughter has already shown some riding prowess with a number of equestrian awards to her name.

Kayla Atkinson, an 18-year-old who will commence her apprenticeship with her mother, Kilmore trainer Alicia Macpherson, and 25-yearold Emily Brown, who will be based at Matthew Williams’ stables in Warrnambool, round out the class of 2019 who will spend the next four years honing their race riding skills under RV Apprentice Jockey Coaches Darren Gauci and Matt Pumpa.

The new intake will also receive specialist guidance from an expert team of physical trainers, nutritionists, physiotherapists and sports psychologists, who will give them the best possible chance of reaching the top of the jockey ranks.

“The first day of the jockey program is always an exciting one for the new apprentices and their families, as they embark on a journey which we hope will lead to a successful career in the saddle,” said Greg Carpenter, RV’s Executive General Manager – Racing.

“Over the next four years, these ten aspiring young riders will learn every facet of what it takes to become an elite jockey in one of the country’s most competitive sporting environments.

“It is again heartening to see a large percentage of female riders joining the AJTP, this continues the trend we have seen in recent years and I’m sure the success achieved by Michelle Payne, Steph Thornton and most recently by Jamie Kah since she moved to Melbourne will inspire even more young girls to enrol in the program.”

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CHRISTINE PULS Named 2019 Lady of Racing

Jockey Christine Puls has been announced as the winner of the Victorian Wakeful Club Lady of Racing Award at a ceremony held in The Atrium at Flemington Racecourse.

Story courtesy of Racing Victoria • Images by Racing Photos

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hristine becomes the 24th winner of the coveted award, which is run

by The Victorian Wakeful Club in partnership with Racing Victoria (RV) and aims to celebrate women who have made an outstanding contribution to the Thoroughbred racing and breeding industries.

Christine knew she wanted to be a jockey from the age of four, when she would ride sheep around the family farm. She regularly competes on the metropolitan and country circuits, as well as providing ongoing guidance and support to younger hoops coming through the ranks. Her biggest claim to fame is winning the Group 3 Hobart Cup (2400m) in 2005 on Our Dashing Dane.

Christine claimed the award at a star-studded ceremony which was also attended by her fellow finalists, leading trainer Natalie Young, retired jockey Clare Lindop and Claudette Luke, Financial Manager of the Magic Millions Sales.

The other winners at the Lady of Racing Award Luncheon were: RV apprentice jockey Mikaela Lawrence, recipient of the Marie McCullough Apprentice Jockey Training Program Scholarship; Emily Schulz, Racing Assistant at First Light Racing, who was awarded the Mary Martin Polytechnic Scholarship; and Clerk of the Course Remi Gray, who won the Spirit of Racing Award.

Chairman of the Australian Jockeys Association (AJA), Des O’Keeffe, said Christine is a wonderful mentor to female riders coming through the ranks.

“Christine has been a career jockey, she’s had great longevity with it and she’s hard-working, dedicated and never complains,” Des said.

“She’s a really strong mentor to the female riders, and I think she’s had a career she can be incredibly proud of. She has been a support to so many fellow riders, apprentices and females in the industry, and that gives her enormous credit.”

Fellow jockey Chelsea Hall revealed Christine always takes time out from her Raceday commitments to help the apprentices.

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“Christine always takes time to walk the track, go through our race rides and help with our riding,” Chelsea said.

“She really goes out of her way to help the apprentices. If someone is down about their ride she’s always the first one to bring you back up, she’ll pull you aside so you don’t feel embarrassed.”

Country Racing Victoria Chief Executive, Scott Whiteman, believes Christine is one of the unsung heroes in racing.

“Christine is one of those special people out there who is always looking after others, not just her own needs and requirements,” Scott said. “She’s always concerned about her fellow riders, particularly the younger riders.”

The calibre of nominations in this year’s Lady of Racing Award made narrowing down the winner very difficult, according to the President of The Victorian Wakeful Club, Christine Downing.

“As we celebrate our silver anniversary, we are so pleased to see yet another strong woman and great mentor such as Christine be recognised. The important thing to remember with these awards, is that we celebrate and recognise the contribution of women from all levels within the industry,” RV CEO Giles Thompson, who sits on the selection panel of the award, revealed the quality of candidates was extremely high this year.

“The calibre of finalists this year was very impressive, and all have made a great contribution to racing. On top of her longevity in the saddle, it is Christine’s ongoing mentoring and support of our younger generation right across the state that makes her a deserved winner,” Giles said.

“Christine is instrumental in inspiring other women to break down the barriers in racing. She joins an impressive honour roll of past winners, and we congratulate her on being named the 2019 Lady of Racing.”

The Lady of Racing Award, established in 1993 by The Victorian Wakeful Club, recognises females who have played a significant role in the thoroughbred racing and breeding industries.

Other notable names at the star-studded ceremony included 2015 Melbourne Cupwinning jockey, Michelle Payne; Racing Victoria Chairman, Brian Kruger; and Amanda Elliott, the Victoria Racing Club’s (VRC) first female Chairman who was named last year’s Lady of Racing. left: The four 2019 finalists Claire Lindop, Christine Puls, Claudette Luke and Natalie Young below left: Giles Thompson, Christine Puls and Amanda Elliott below centre: 2011 winner Michelle Payne and 2018 winner Amanda Elliott below right: Victorian Wakeful Club President Christine Downing

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KATE GRIMWADE

Keeps the Wins for Coming for James Cummings and Godolphin Racing super power Godolphin is having a great run this season in Melbourne and in Sydney, base of head trainer James Cummings, who is credited with 32 Melbourne wins and another eight on Victorian country tracks.

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TIM GUILLE from Inside Racing spoke with James’ assistant trainer Kate Grimwade, in charge of the Flemington stables.

Image by Ross Holburt/Racing Photos ate, what got you into racing?

“I basically grew up on stud farms across England as my father, Joe Grimwade, was a stud manager. I was really into horses from as long as I can remember. My first job was riding military horses, as well as doing some work with my father on some of the stud farms. It was from there that I was able to undertake some formal education by doing the Irish National Stud Course, an amazing learning opportunity.”

You went into the Godolphin Flying Start program in 2002. Was that a great kick-start in your career?

“It was absolutely essential for me. It gave me the further education that I needed and probably more importantly, the contacts needed to try to progress my career. It was during that time I actually met Gai Waterhouse. ”

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You came to Australia in 2005. What prompted that?

“Sheikh Mohammed (Darley and Godolphin owner) wanted to race more horses in Australia and had purchased Woodlands (from Bob Ingham). I came out here originally to work there and it was not long after that the opportunity came up to work for Gai Waterhouse.

I worked as Gai’s bloodstock manager so my responsibilities were primarily sourcing bloodstock, selling down shares in yearlings, owning the communication.”

Did you find it was hard to get a grasp of racing in Australia?

“I was more from a stud-farming background, and Gai was my first job in racing, so I actually found it easy to get my head around the Australian way of doing things. In Australia, it is about constant

progression, whereas in England you tend to tread water a lot more and give horses time in a lot of cases.”

You headed back to England and ended up working in pre-training for Godolphin. That must have been a good opportunity.

“It was amazing. We did all the breaking and pre-training. We broke in the northern-hemisphere yearlings with about 280 horses at any given time and a turnover of over 1,000 horses annually. At our peak we were breaking in 500 yearlings a year, getting them to quite advanced levels.

It was there that I got my biggest break, I guess, when I was training Contributor after the stable had purchased him in 2013. He headed to Australia and won a stakes race pretty much straight off the plane, which was a huge thrill for me. ” Fast forward to 2018 and late in August you found yourself assistant trainer in Godolphin’s Melbourne stables. Was it hard to leave England or did you jump at the chance?

“It was a hard decision (to leave England). Moving to the other side of the world again in your mid-30s isn’t something to be taken lightly.

But I had loved my seven-odd years in Australia. At the time I hadn’t really considered coming back to Australia—as far as I was concerned I’d gone home and that’s where I’d stay. But when I saw this job, I knew it was the perfect opportunity. So here I am.”

How has it been building a relationship with James Cummings, grandson of the legendary trainer Bart Cummings?

“It’s a new experience for me being this involved in the day-today running of a stable and training horses, but one that I’m really enjoying. I actually knew James quite well, as I had met him when I was working with Gai. His wife (Monica) and I lived together while we were both working there and James was working for his dad (Anthony, also at Randwick) at the time and that’s how I met him. I’ve always

had a lot of respect for James.”

You have joined the Australian Godolphin operation at a time that the stable is flying. Do you think there has been any special recipe?

“Most credit should go to our stud farms to be honest, especially if you look at our current crop of two-year-olds. The stud teams have done a magnificent job and we’re the lucky ones training them. I think James definitely brings a unique set of skills. He has an extraordinary racing brain. He has generations of knowledge and experience behind him and he’s a very intelligent person and naturally inquisitive. He is also a genuine horseman. Just looking at the way he interacts with the horses you can tell he really loves them. So, to have someone with such a phenomenal racing brain, that has a love for horses, it’s a pretty magic formula.”

Have you got a stand-out horse that comes to mind when you think of the best you’ve worked with?

“Definitely Masar. Being of a European background, winning the Epsom Derby I think is the ultimate race to win, so to be involved with him during his win in 2018 was incredible, and he is a great horse.

I’ll never forget that. It was great to see Cross Counter (like Masar, trained in England by Charlie Appleby) win the 2018 Melbourne Cup, too. At the moment I’m incredibly lucky to be working with horses like Hartnell (second in the All-Star Mile) that are just hardened, seasoned Group 1 horses. It doesn’t really get much better than that.”

Where do you see yourself heading in racing?

“I would dearly love to train the winner of an Epsom Derby—that would be the ultimate. One day I do want to train in my own right.

That day will come I’m sure, but for now I’m happy.”

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Dr Jill Colwell - always happy with a horse above: Jill at a young 62 years in January 2015 with Arabian Racehorse Hazeldene Estina right; Jill at 12 months

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DR JILL COLWELL

An Australian Sporting Treasure - Part 2 Iconic Australian racehorse trainers, Theo Green and T.J. Smith will always guarantee you a racing headline. Add in Olympic champion marathon runner, Robert de Castella and your headline is starting to become the foundation for a sporting documentary or even a movie script.

Foreword by Victoria Shaw • Main story and images courtesy Dr Jill Colwell

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ut, what about a woman who has been mentored by them all?

A young woman on the edge of her remarkable adult life in an astonishing period in Australian history that saw immense social reform for women – the 1970s. A decade that was punctuated with social commentary by public intellectual and renowned feminist - Germaine Greer. Yet a young Dr Jill Colwell was not shouting her accomplishments from the roof tops, far from it. A quiet achiever is the only way to describe Jill, a gifted, gentle soul who was guided by some of the world’s best while at the same time completing a medical degree and unknowingly being a female trailblazer in many areas of Australian working life, breaking through barriers for women.

Dr Jill Colwell’s life is extraordinary, so much so that I have asked Jill to convey to Ladies in Racing Magazine readers in her own words her life time account. Reading through the first of a three part series you can’t help but be impressed with her profound passion, hard work and determination that underpins her very existence, compounded with a degree of humility and wit that you will only find in someone that hails from the Australian bush.

Both a professional and amateur jockey; acclaimed local and international track work rider; Australia’s first female representative marathon runner; doctor of medicine as well as being a race caller’s daughter – Dr Jill Colwell may not have won a Melbourne Cup, but she is very much a champion.

A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Dr Jill Colwell for the first time. A former professional and now amateur jockey, she has developed a love for Arabian horses. Although I have got to know Jill in the later stages of her life, you would never guess her age by watching Dr Colwell contest a race. The first time I actually called an event that featured Jill riding, her tenacity tempered with great skill and balance would rival the best jockeys – a third of her age. Now in her mid60s Jill is successfully enjoying her time in the saddle again with an amateur jockey’s licence. However, amateur is certainly not a word that is befitting of her ability or experience. Dr Jill Colwell’s life has been filled with both professional and Olympic level sporting successes as well as her scholastic attainments that set her apart from most of us especially with a career in medicine. Additionally, many of Jill’s sporting and medical achievements were also inaugural moments or near first time occurrences for Australian working women.

I think it is a sure bet, that you will enjoy reading about Dr Jill Colwell’s fascinating life story as much as I do.

Victoria Shaw.

Race caller & HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Arabian racing journalist of the year 2015.

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n early 1977, I graduated from Sydney University Medical School with Honours. Ahead lay the two-year Hospital internship to learn the more practical aspects of being a Doctor. Interns worked long hours but were paid a modest salary, so financially I no longer needed to ride early morning track work and ride in races to help pay my living and education expenses. However, I had become rather addicted to participating in horse racing. I loved the horses and enjoyed the camaraderie and laconic sense of humour of the racing fraternity.

Females were beginning to forge their own place in the male dominated “Sport of Kings”. Approved lady riders could ride in professional races and received the normal riding fees, including the $27 losing ride fee. However, they could not ride in races with men nor obtain a jockey apprenticeship.

In New South Wales (NSW), the races for approved lady riders were mainly conducted at registered country racecourses and there was a lot of travel required between the infrequent races.

Career prospects for Australian female jockeys looked bleak at this time until the NSW Parliament passed the Anti-Discrimination Act. “An Act to render unlawful, the racial, sex and other types of discrimination in certain circumstances and to promote equality of opportunity between all persons”.

It would only be a matter of time before there was a legal challenge to the Australian Jockey Club and the Australian Rules of Racing.

I chose to base my internship at the Prince of Wales Hospital because it was a good training hospital and it was close to Randwick Racecourse. I quickly landed a position riding track work at Randwick with the legendary Trainer, Tommy (TJ) Smith. I rejoiced at how things had changed in the few short years since 1973, when I was initially rejected as a track rider at Canterbury Racecourse simply because of my female gender. I was so excited to be riding fast work for TJ Smith who had dominated Sydney racing for decades and trained such greats as Redcraze, Tulloch and Gunsynd.

Jill Graduating with MB BS (Honours) Sydney University 1977

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It was exhilarating galloping on the course proper and sweeping around the turn on the famous Randwick track. Tommy had a lot of horses in work, but he knew each horse so well and seemed to remember all the particulars of each horse without reference to any notes. No wonder he won thirty-three consecutive training Premierships in Sydney. His only daughter, now the very successful Gai Waterhouse was a good rider and she rode track work for the stable and obviously learned a lot from her famous father about training winners.

One morning after track work, I found the courage to approach Theo and I asked him if he would help me improve my riding. His answer was an abrupt “No”. Then he gave me some reasons, including “racing was too dangerous for females” and “females were more suited to kitchen work”.

I did not try to debate this with Theo. We just terminated our conversation.

However, a few months later, Theo rode up to me while I was riding one of TJ’s horses. Theo simply said words to the effect: “I do not agree with females wanting to ride in races. However, Jill, I can see that you are determined to keep riding.

So, you had better come and join our stable and learn how to ride properly. Please be at my stables before dawn tomorrow morning.”

I was speechless and could hardly believe my changed fortunes!

Dr Jill Colwell on Utter Bliss and Dr Fiona Stewart on Star Bolt

– Jill riding “Utter Bliss” at Theo’s stables, Clear Day Lodge at Randwick. June 1978. Images by Pix Hixson

Theo Green trained at Randwick and he was the master trainer and mentor of jockeys. There were no official jockey schools in those days.

Many of Theo’s Apprentices became recognised as great jockeys, including Sid Spinks, John Duggan, Ron Quinton, Malcolm Johnston and Darren Beadman. I would often see Theo galloping a horse beside his apprentice, teaching him the finer points of balance and pacing.

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I soon came to understand that Theo did not doubt the capacity of females to ride well. He was mainly concerned that the ‘frail’ female body would break when the inevitable falls occurred.

He set about systematically teaching me how to stay safer in various situations, such as when a horse bolted or bucked or ‘went off ‘ in the barriers. As I had been riding track work and races for years, I was genuinely calm, happy and focussed around horses and they usually reciprocated these feelings. However, I needed some good default strategies if things did become dangerous.

Theo would explain the strategies and then provide me with opportunities to put theory into practice. For example, one morning he asked me to work a horse that bolted with everyone, including the heavy weight riders.

I only weighed about 50 kg. I applied Theo’s bolting solutions perfectly with this horse and the workout went well, which surprised a few track watchers who had repeatedly argued that female jockeys were never going to be strong enough. They clearly underestimated the role of skill and technique in managing these powerful animals.

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Theo maintained a small stable of about thirty horses. His clients included the Bob and Jack Ingham, John Singleton and Harvey Norman partnership. Theo was very astute and especially good at aiming and training his horses for races so the owners could punt with confidence.

He entrusted me with riding these horses in their important gallops, often in the pre-dawn before the clockers could time their work. There were no lights on the track in those days. Theo would time me from the back of his lead pony, by waiting beside the start point with his stopwatch, then galloping across the centre of the track to the winning post where he waited for me to emerge through the darkness. He taught me a lot about conditioning racehorses, riding and racing. I often rode gallops and jump outs with his jockeys, Ron Quinton and Malcolm Johnston, both of whom assisted me greatly.

Theo was a wonderful teacher and a very special and kind human being. He could be quite philosophical, and I enjoyed learning about his systematic approach to not only racing but life in general.

The amendment to the Australian Rules of Racing in 1979

The first ever official trial at Royal Randwick for female riders was scheduled for September 1978. Initially Theo told me that he would not be nominating a horse for me to ride. I was so disappointed as this was a landmark event for female riders. A few days later, he told me that the Inghams wanted me to ride one of their good horses in the trial. But of course, we would have to run 4th. “No problem”, I replied. There were seven experienced lady riders engaged for that ground-breaking trial at ‘Headquarters’. I think each of us acutely felt the significance of the occasion with respect to advancing the prospects of female jockeys.

We needed to put on a professional display. As Theo legged me up on my horse before the trial, he told me that because it was such a special occasion, Mr Ingham had changed his mind and decided that I could win the trial. Ironically the horse was named Favourite Boy. We won the lady rider’s trial easily.

In 1979, the Australian Jockey Club (AJC) announced that they would allow female jockeys to ride against the males and subsequently amended the Australian Rules of Racing. Trainers would be able to indenture female apprentices. During a phasing- in period, an approved lady rider over the apprenticeship age limit would be able to apply for a licence under strict conditions including assessment in Metropolitan Barrier Trials to satisfy stewards that they had the necessary strength, skill and ability to ride safely and in a competent manner in races against male riders.

On March 31st, 1979, visiting New Zealand jockey Linda Jones became the first female to officially ride with the male jockeys in Australia when she rode at Rosehill. In May 1979, Queensland’s Pam O’Neill became the first Australian lady to obtain her full jockey’s licence.

Pam was a real trailblazer and she rode three winners against the men at her first race meeting.

Riding “Gloriana” at Randwick June 1978

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I rode track work at Randwick for about 15 months until mid-1979, when I was posted to country NSW to further my Medical Training. Having grown up on a sheep property near Walgett, I was happy to return to the country. My country placement evolved into the Travelling Locum to relieve General Practitioner’s in North West NSW. I was the first female GP ever to work in some of the remote towns. However, the patients readily accepted and welcomed me.

Working in isolation was challenging. Sometimes I was the only Doctor in town, ‘on call’ all around the clock and multi skilling as GP, Obstetrician, Anaesthetist, Psychiatrist, Surgeon, Radiographer and Veterinarian. However, if the town had a racecourse, I would still sometimes find time to ride track work. When I was working in Gilgandra, I would occasionally ride a quiet racehorse along the streets to the hospital. The horse would stay tied up to the sign in the doctor’s car park while I visited a few patients.

In 1980 I moved to the Queensland’s Gold Coast in search of warmer winter weather. I started work in a good General Practice in Southport, not far from the Southport (GCTC) Racecourse. I was soon riding regular track work for Jim Griffiths. Jim provided me with rides in metropolitan barrier trials so I could fulfil the jockey licensing requirements. The stewards granted me my full jockey’s licence in 1980 when I was 28 years old.

In May 1982, I entered another Marathon, the QLD University Marathon held in Brisbane. Des Todd encouraged me to pace myself to run under 3 hours. Most long-distance runners never manage to break the ‘threehour barrier’, even after many years of training. However, with less than 12 months of training, I really nailed it, running the 42.2 Km comfortably in 2 hours 49 minutes.

Subsequently, I was told I had run a new Queensland female record for the distance. Nike, the international running gear company, signed me up as one of their elite sponsored runners. The media wanted to do stories about me. I had always been a private person but now I felt like I was being pushed into becoming public property.

Athletics was a designated amateur sport and one could not accept prize money for winning. My prize was an all-expenses paid trip to Melbourne to run in the Big M Marathon in October 1982. This was the most popular Marathon in Australia, with hundreds of participants, both male and female. My mentor Des calculated that I was ready to run the distance in 2 hours 40 minutes. He extrapolated that time because I can run 10 Km

I was the first female jockey to ride at the famous Birdsville Races. There was no running rail around the back of the course and the track was really dusty. There was only the male jockeys’ change room. It had a shower in the corner, without shower curtains. The male jockeys promised me I could have first shower after the races. My horses ran places in the first two races, but I came last in the final race, so I was covered in dust and really needed a shower.

I looked out into the crowd and saw a large lady wearing a big tent like dress. I asked her to come into the jockeys’ room and stand in front of me while I used the shower that had no privacy curtain. The boys looked a bit disappointed that I had found a makeshift shower curtain. I stripped naked behind my new friend who was wearing the big dress and I then I turned on the tap. Two drops came out, and then nothing; nothing apart from raucous laughter from all the males, who knew all along there was no water in the taps. I could see the funny side myself.

By 1981, I needed a break from horse racing. A few jockey friends had died from race falls and racing incidents. I packed away my riding gear, but I could not bring myself to part with the gear. Somehow, I thought that one day in the future, the dream would come back.

To maintain my fitness, I started jogging around the park near my home in Southport. Soon I met other male joggers and they recruited me to their social jogging club. About twice a week in the morning, we would jog together, chatting away and finishing at a beach café for breakfast.

The social joggers eventually persuaded me to join them in attempting the 1981 Gold Coast Marathon. (42.2 Km road run.). I had only been jogging for a few months and my longest run had been 20 Km. However, I figured I could start walking after I knocked up. Amazingly, I had no difficulty completing the 42.2 Km run in a respectable time of 3 hours & 24 minutes.

One of the local competitive runners, Des Todd, told me that I had untapped potential and the attributes of a good long-distance runner with my efficient economical running style and low body weight. Des asked me to join with his group of competitive male runners in training runs through the bushland around Nerang in the Gold Coast Hinterland.

I had only started casual jogging for health and fitness reasons, but suddenly I found myself way out of my comfort zone, just trying to keep up with these blokes so that I would not get left behind and lost out in the bush. I quickly learned to run fast. I also fine-tuned my diet. I was rapidly transforming from jogger to runner.

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May 1982 during the Queensland University Marathon 42.2km in which Jill set a new women’s record for Queensland in training in about 37 minutes and 40 seconds (= 3 minutes & 46 seconds per Km). He reasoned that I should be able to maintain this pace for another 32.2 Km. It seemed like a rather grandiose plan to me, but I decided I was willing to give it my best shot.

I wrote out the time schedule on a handkerchief to help keep me on even pacing of 3 mins & 46 sec per Km. I carried it on me for reference during the race. As I stood on the start line, looking at the times on my hanky, a wiry fit man beside me queried if I really intended to run those times. He told me that the times were impossible for a novice female runner and that I would ‘hit the wall’ well before the finish. The starter’s gun fired before we could debate the issue.

Nike had given me a pair of air cushioned racing shoes for the race.

They made me feel bouncy and light, like I should be able to run faster.

However, I held back and stuck to my time schedule. It started to rain. At 20 Km, I was right on schedule, but my feet started to hurt. I looked down and saw that my new cream shoes had become blood red. It was a bad case of blood blisters from wearing new shoes in the rain. I kept running

but the foot pain was getting bad. I resolved not to look at my shoes and I managed to block the pain out of my mind.. The dissociation worked and I finished the race in 2 hours 39 minutes.

Marathon running is a physically demanding pursuit, but much of the success or otherwise comes from one’s mind.

Aussie marathon champion Robert de Castella was the first to congratulate me at the finish line. ‘Mr Wiry’ finished way behind me, and he came up and apologised for his pre-race comments about my intended race time. I smiled and thanked him for making me feel more determined.

I flew home to Queensland that night, arriving home too late to ring Des to give him the good news that I had bettered the race time that he had calculated. There were no mobile phones and no Facebook in 1982. Next morning, I hobbled out on my two raw feet onto my front lawn to collect my Courier Mail newspaper. As usual, I turned straight to the back page to check the horse racing news. The sporting headline read “Jill Colwell breaks the female Australian Record for the Marathon”. That was the very first moment that I realised what I had achieved. The time that Des had sneakily set me, was to break the Australian record. Until then, I had no idea what the Australian record time was, as I was only thinking about running my own personal best (PB). Perhaps I would not have attempted to run so fast if I had known that the hanky schedule meant that I would have to run faster than any other Australian female in Australia.

Unfortunately, there was no female Marathon scheduled for the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. The Administrators of Athletics were worried that a female might die while competing in such a tough event.

However, in 1983, the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) decided to include a Women’s Marathon at the First World Athletics Championships to be held in Helsinki, Finland.

This event was to attract almost universal representation from nearly every country in the world, because, unlike the Olympics, there were no political boycotts and the IAAF paid the expenses of every qualified runner, including living for ten days in a high security Olympic style village in Helsinki. Even the poorest country had athletes in Helsinki.

The Australian Athletic Union (AAU) selected me to represent Australia in the Marathon and I was so excited to be part of this inaugural, truly international Marathon for women. It felt rather surreal to be wearing the green and gold, because I had only started running about two years prior.

Unfortunately, I came down with influenza on the day before my event.

The Aussie team doctor advised me to withdraw because of the potential risk to my heart and other organs, especially as the predicted unseasonal temperature of 28 degrees was too hot for Marathon running. However, he left the final decision to me. My brain told me to scratch from this Marathon, but my heart would not listen. So, I decided to put on my green and gold uniform, run conservatively and just try not to collapse out on the course.

My legs felt so heavy and my body felt strangely weak, hot and sore nearly everywhere. There were people lining the whole route, cheering for every runner. Finally, I could see the stadium ahead, up on a hill. The Marathon finished with one final 400 m lap inside the stadium which was filled with 60,000 spectators. I was buggered, there were no other runners in sight, and I intended to walk up the hill to reserve enough energy to complete the required lap inside the stadium.

However, a group of Australian spectators started waving the Aussie flag at me. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Somehow, I managed to jog up that hill and into the dark tunnel entrance to the big stadium. By then, my legs felt too heavy to move. The big score board inside the stadium began flashing “Jill Colwell - Australia - 25th in the Women’s Marathon”. 60,000 spectators in the stadium stood up and cheered me all the way around the final lap. I felt I had no choice other than to keep running right through to the finish line. Just concentrating on one heavy leg after the other.

My time was a creditable 2 hours 45 minutes, only 7 minutes outside my PB. Looking back, I think it was my best race ever. At least it was certainly my toughest and most courageous performance. The amazing Greta Waitz representing Norway, won the Gold Medal in 2 hours 28 minutes.

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The 2019 Apsley Cup

APSLEY RACING CLUB Apsley Racing Club has 164 years of racing under its belt and has set the stage for another wonderful day of racing in the West Wimmera, at the Edenhope Racecourse, on Sunday June 9, the Queen’s Birthday long weekend.

Images by Racing Photos rom Cup Eve at the Border Inn, to Tour De Frances, FREE kid’s entertainment & LIVE music, to the everexpanding calibre of Fashions on the Field – there is always something for the entire family on the weekend of DiGiorgio’s Family Wines Apsley Cup.

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The Apsley Cup has been building a strong reputation for high quality fashion, and this Queen’s birthday weekend will be no exception. Winter and wool could not be a better match and is certainly encouraged. There are two ladies’ categories: Apsley Cup Fashions on the Field, and Best Dressed Wearing Wool.

Men are not forgotten, with Best Dressed Gent.

Keep up-to-date with all the happenings of a jampacked Queen’s Birthday weekend by following us on Facebook and Instagram. www.country.racing.com/apsley

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The Great Redeemer and Kate Gath winning at Tabcorp Park March 9 2019

Harness Racing Victoria’s

FEARLESS REINSWOMEN Australia has again savoured a summer celebration as harness racing’s fearless reinswomen notch a cavalcade of victories, with each adding to the imposing Team Teal fundraising total that’s benefitting Women’s Cancer Foundation.

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ow stretching beyond Australia’s borders, the movement leads to six-figure sum of funds that’s helping fight ovarian cancer and providing a continual reminder of the strength of female participations in the trots.

The equality and opportunity enjoyed is due in no small part to the paths blazed through more challenging times, which has seen obstacles removed on and off the race track. It’s an influence that extends to Harness Racing Victoria’s Integrity Department, an area of concentrated focus that has, particularly of late, been strengthened

by State Government investment and industry commitment.

They are improvements not lost on HRV Senior Steward Kylie Harrison, who was born into a trots family and transitioned from the sulky to the stewards’ room in 1998 to pursue a full-time career in the sport she loved.

“From a very early age I rode and competed in horse shows, dressage and eventing and spent almost all of my free time refining my skills and enjoying horses,” Ms Harrison said.

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“I was about 14 years old when my grandmother suggested I get my licence to drive. A small number of women had started to make inroads into the male dominated sport and I watched and cheered on these women and were inspired by the likes of Karen Dunsford, Anne Frawley and Debbie Turner. I gained my drivers’ licence to drive in 1984 aged 16.

But she also recalls “magnified scrutiny” on reinswomen and limited opportunities, which led to her becoming disillusioned and, following encouragement, diverting to stewarding, the beginning of a more than 20-year career.

“I didn’t think it would be easy being the first woman to work on the stewards’ panel and I was right,” Ms Harrison said. “There was a lot to learn. In 35 years I’ve seen many changes, particularly over the past four or five years. Supportive technologies and resources that ensure

stewards can investigate, test and follow up information has been hugely beneficial for the integrity of the industry.”

Ms Harrison said she was motivated to ensure “participants are able to participate with confidence, that they are competing on a level playing field and that all members are treated fairly and heard”.

And that extends to opportunities for all to compete on a level playing field, including reinswomen.

“Over time, and with the persistence of some very determined women, there has been a shift towards inclusion,” she said. “Kerryn Manning’s great success as a driver shifted opinions about women’s abilities.

Many other women started to get the opportunities they rightfully deserved and a wave of successful reinswomen and trainers ensued.

I’m extremely proud of our industry that this respect and notoriety has been achieved.”

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On the Road

Armidale Stud

EDITION # 3

PHOTOGRAPHING ON THE FARM There’s not much more lush and fertile ground than you find in Tassie, especially the green pastures of Armidale Stud, in Carrick, just outside of Launceston.

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fter first photographing Alpine Eagle early last year, it was time to re photograph him and get up close with his first foals that were born last season.

To say they are “crackers” is an understatement. True to type, all beautifully put together, they were a dream to photograph. Great temperaments and an inquisitive nature was another hallmark trait of these youngsters which made our afternoon photography session a lot of fun and allowed me to sit in wait in the paddocks, just waiting for that perfect shot.

As for Alpine Eagle’s shoot, I wanted something a little different, that classic wash bay shot, but the light just wasn’t quite right. As he slowly lowered his head to the ground, with the water spray behind him, illuminating in the late afternoon light, I knew that was the “money shot”.

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St Pat’s Fashionable Foals

with SHARON LEE CHAPMAN - FAST TRACK PHOTOGRAPHY

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Alpine Eagle

It’s always a challenge to create something different for each stallion, but Alpine Eagle provided one of those special moments for me.

Join me each quarter in “On the Road” where I’ll be sharing a few of my favourite shoots and photo tips!

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CHANNEL SEVEN’S BRISBANE RACING CARNIVAL,

Features a Must-Attend Line-up of Race Days.

Whether you’re an avid racegoer, an eager punter or fashion-fuelled, the highly-renowned Channel Seven Brisbane Racing Carnival, presented by TAB, is fast-approaching on Saturday, May 11, until Saturday, June 8.

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his year’s highly-anticipated Carnival is making history trackside with a blockbuster seven Group 1 races, supported by a black type racing programme beyond compare, and off the track with an infamous line-up of live entertainment, Westfield Chermside Fashions on the Field and delicately crafted menus.

Doomben Cup, supported by an unparalleled racing programme. In amongst the crowds will be race day Ambassadors and celebrities to enjoy a variety of tantalizing seasonal food and beverage options, carefully curated by Brisbane Racing Club’s executive chefs, and an array of not-to-miss live entertainment.

The TAB Doomben 10,000 Day is releasing the Winter Carnival from its gates to kick off five days of exhilarating horseracing. Taking to the green of Doomben Racecourse, witness one of the world’s best weightfor-age races, which leads a blockbuster race card – a history in the making moment for racegoers and punters. Off the track, the thrill continues with a soon-to-be-announced Aussie rock legend flying in especially to perform, a bountiful of beautiful beverages and eats to enjoy and the best fashion looks taking centre stage.

Day three of the legendary Racing Carnival will reignite memories of many by making the return to heritage-listed Eagle Farm Racecourse, Queensland’s premier racing destination, for the KIRIN Stakes Day on Saturday, May 25. With an incomparable thoroughbred horse racing programme that features a Group 1 TAB Kingsford Smith Cup race offering $700,000 in prizemoney, it’s the ultimate pedigreed contest, and will be a day to remember.

Doomben has also earned itself as the destination for the second event of the Carnival: The Hardy Brothers Doomben Cup Day on Saturday, March 18. Here, you will be witness to the Group 1 Hardy Brothers

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A morning of leisure and fanfare at the Artisan Aesthetic Clinics High Tea on Friday, May 31, in the heritage-listed Tote Room of Eagle Farm Racecourse will have you race-ready before heading back to Doomben Racecourse for Treasury Brisbane Ladies’ Oak Day the following day.

Here, women donning the latest winter trends will be sipping on sparkling and indulging in a selection of delicate delectable canapés and petit fours beautifully displayed.

Every attendee will come home a winner leaving with an exclusive gift bag and the opportunity to browse a selection of stalls from Brisbane’s most renowned milliners.

Trackside at Doomben, the Treasury Brisbane Ladies’ Oak Day on June 1 is signposted as the must-attend event for all men and women who are fashionloving racegoers. The event will feature live entertainment and endless toasts to the distinguished Group 1 Treasury Brisbane Queensland Oaks.

Last but certainly not least is the TAB Stradbroke Day on the green of Eagle Farm on Saturday, June 8, which will culminate the festivities of the Channel Seven Brisbane Racing Carnival, presented by TAB. With a winter-inspired menu, live entertainment, the best of the racing fashion looks and the legendary 1,400m TAB Stradbroke Handicap, one of Australia’s most distinguished races, it’s a must-attend event.

With celebrities attending from near and far, men and women donning their best winter racing looks and racing programmes set to make history, the Channel Seven Brisbane Carnival, presented by TAB, is sure to be a sell-out so secure your tickets for your desired race day(s) now via www.brc.com.au This is how we race!

TAB Doomben 10,000 Saturday, May 11 - Doomben

Hardy Brothers Doomben Cup Saturday, May 18 - Doomben

KIRIN Stakes Saturday, May 25 - Eagle Farm

Treasury Brisbane Ladies’ Oaks Saturday, June 1 - Doomben

TAB Stradbroke Handicap Saturday, June 8 - Eagle Farm

Queensland Derby Saturday, June 8 - Eagle Farm

Brisbane Cup Saturday, June 8 - Eagle Farm

The TJ Smith Saturday, June 8 - Eagle Farm

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Tatts Cup 2014 Tegan Harrison and The Inventor

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TIARA’S FEMININE TOUCH Brisbane Tattersall’s Racing Club’s winter meeting showcases a jewel in the crown for the distaff side of racing.

Its $500,000 Tiara (Group 1, 1400m) is Queensland’s premier event for fillies and mares.

The honour roll for the weight-for-age contest includes an array of fine competitors.

Story by Ross Stanley • Images by Racing Queensland

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y contemporary standards, its beginnings were humble. The T.R.C. Winter Stakes, a handicap over 1500 metres for fillies and mares, made its debut at Eagle Farm in 1989. The first prize of $40,000 went to the Imposing filly La Posette, ridden by Stephen “Beaver” Schofield.

An unbeaten run of four straight had begun for Garry Newham’s charge with a Doomben novice success six weeks earlier.

The second placegetter, Shuzohra, was en-route to a Grafton Cup win.

Twelve months later, the Kiwi mare returned to annex the P.J.O’Shea Stakes-Brisbane Cup double.

The 1992-1995 versions were at Listed level, the next ten were Group 3 opportunities and, after a one step upgrade in 2006, the race has now carried the elite Group One label a dozen times. The Winter Stakes became Tatt’s Tiara in 2011.

The victory of the Bart Cummings trained Dane Ripper in 1997 enhanced the event’s status. The daughter of Danehill and the sovereign red mare Red Express was a high calibre conveyance, taking out that year’s Stradbroke and Cox Plate. In 1998, she added the VRC Australian Cup, MVRC Manikato Stakes, Memsie Stakes and St George

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Stakes to her feature tally. Her career earnings of $3.15 million from a 29:12-2-6 form line was something to marvel at twenty years ago.

In 2015 Srikandi also saluted in the $2 million Stradbroke and the $500,000 Tiara. The Dubawi (Ire) mare prevailed nine times from just fifteen occasions. During her Queensland sojourn at three, the Ciaron Maher-trained chestnut won the Silk Stocking, Juanmo Stakes and the Glenlogan Park Stakes prior to a third placing, beaten a length in the Stradbroke. She was unraced for nearly eleven months but successfully resumed on Anzac Day 2015 in the $201,000 Victory Stakes at the Gold Coast prior to pulling off the $2 million Stradbroke and $500,000 Tatt’s Tiara double. Nine of her career appearances were in the Sunshine Stakes. Hurricane Sky’s grand-daughter franked the form at her penultimate outing when she downed all bar Chautauqua in the $1m MVRC Manikato Stakes.

Another high quality female to wear the Tiara was the Dane Shadow mare Red Tracer. She amassed a dozen black type victories including the VRC Myer Stakes, two Dane Rippers in Queensland and three STC Millie Fox Stakes. Her dam, the Snippets mare Kisma, also dropped

her full brother Shellscrape (AJC The Galaxy) and another sibling in Counterattack. The trio all collected a featured in winter carnival feature as did their great-grand-dam Hayley’s Hope (GCTC Prime Minister’s Cup).

2015 Tatts Tiara winner Srikandi leading the head on finish

PREMIER The following list shows the year and name of some Tattersall’s Tiara BRISBANE winners along with some of their other key successes.

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Bonanova

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2004

Miss Potential

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Absolute Glam

2009

Russeting

Juanmo Stakes

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Melito

A welcome breakthrough at the elite level after placings in a Stradbroke, Doomben 10,000, BTC Cup, AJC All Aged Stakes, AJC T.J. Smith Stakes, STC Queen of the Turf Stakes, STC Coolmore Classic and MRC Thousand Guineas

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Yosei

Handled by Michelle Payne; AJC Sires Produce, MRC One Thousand Guineas

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Pear Tart

2014

Cosmic Endeavour

ATC Canterbury Stakes

2015

Srikandi

Stradbroke, Juanmo Stakes

2016

Miss Cover Girl

2017

Tycoon Tara

2018

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Some locally trained aspirants have stood tall in this highly competitive event. Mon Mekki, a brilliant winner for apprentice Paul Hammersley and trainer Gerald Ryan in the 2002 Queensland Oaks, was regarded as a spring cups prospect at four. However she chipped a knee in the Tattersall’s Club Cup at Randwick, was rested and came back triumphantly in the 2003 Winter Stakes.

Rudy, from Helen Page’s Gold Coast stable, saluted in the 2017 Cup with Tim Clark aboard. The consistent money-spinner also prevailed in the 2014 Villiers at Randwick. His eight placings at Group level included a Doomben Cup, O’Shea Stakes, Doncaster Prelude and a Tramway Handicap. The Red Dazzler gelding finished a close fourth in the 2015 Doncaster.

Eagle Farm Trainer Kelly Schweida has twice been the maestro. He had the Iglesia mare Nova Star was in fine form in 2007. In the lead-up to the Winter Stakes, the 2006 Queensland Guineas heroine had won the Silk Stocking and the QTC Cup and put up a sterling effort to grab fifth placing in the Stradbroke. Then in 2016 Damian Browne booted home Miss Cover Girl (20/1) to claim the $320,000 first prize.

Sunshine Coast trainer Natalie McCall took out the 2012 W.J. Healy Stakes (1200m) with River Lad. Top Echelon’s son was beaten a lip in the same race twelve months later but the bay progressed to further success in the 2013 BRC Bribie Handicap, 2014 BRC Sprint and the Stradbroke Handicap.

THE IDEAL UPSHOT

Southern trainers have long been a wake up to the benefits of wintering their young bloodstock in Brisbane.

An illustrious sidelight to to the 2001 Winter Stakes centres around the progeny of the winner Porto Roca. The Barathea mare was bred by Queenslanders Peter and Wendy Moran and Ron Gilbert. Trainer Danny O’Brien paid $70,000 for the bay that also scored in the STC Coolmore Classic. For her post-racing life, she was bought by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Darley operation. Her mating with Dubawi (Ire) produced Monterosso (GB. The stallion’s name, along with the likes of Californian Chrome, Arrogate, Cigar, Street Cry and Curlin, is on the honour board for the globally famous UAE Dubai World Cup. LADIES LANDED LAURELS Gai Waterhouse had a hand in preparing the Tiara winners Cosmic Endeavour and, with Adrian Bott, Prompt Response. Along with her father Tommy, the Tulloch Lodge principal has been a strong, long term supporter of Queensland’s carnivals.

Michelle Payne is the only woman to partner a Tiara winner. She swept home along the rail on Stuart Webb’s charge Yosei. The Invincible Spirit three-year-old came from last to down the Doomben 10,000 heroine Beaded. The trio also garnered the Sires Produce Stakes at Randwick and the One Thousand Guineas at Caulfield.

Ladies have loomed large in other Tattersall’s races on the card.

Apprentice Tegan Harrison led all the way on The Inventor in the 2014 Tattersall’s Cup (Group 3,2200m). A week earlier she had turned on a skilful pace-making display to score in the Ipswich Cup on Brave Ali (Listed, 2015m)

TATT’S JAUNT FOR JUVENILES

Melbourne mentor Geoff Murphy incorporated the Tattersall’s W.D. Ross Stakes in the campaigns of Surround and Gurner’s Lane, his promising, well bred two-year-olds that developed into lofty achievers.

During her 1976 trip, Surround, the daughter of Sovereign Edition (Ire), won a Nursery, the Ross Stakes and the H.J. Murphy Quality and also ran third in the inaugural J.J. Atkins Stakes. Before coming to Queensland a year later to take out the QTC Grand Prix and QTC Oaks, the grey chalked up an astonishing ten successes that included a Cox Plate, the Caulfield Guineas and two Oaks Stakes.

Gurner’s Lane, a son of Sir Tristram and brother of Sovereign Red’s, finished fourth twice at Eagle Farm in 1981 before his Ross Stakes win.

The chestnut went on to capture the 1982 Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double and the St Legers at Randwick and Flemington.

2019 The Tattersall’s program at Eagle Farm coming up on June 22 will also host the second staging of Queensland’s Battle of the Bush Final. Last year’s contest was taken out by Mason’s Chance. The Pressday gelding was saddled up by Mackay’s Olivia Cairns. Jamie Kah, Bridget Grylls, Hannah English, Brooke Stower, Cecily Eaton, and Sonja Wiseman were the females who sported silk in the popular initiative.

Tattersall’s Cup will also break new ground by a distance extension to 3,000 metres. This is a strategically welcome move as it offers a lead in to the following month’s Queensland Cup (3200m). www. tattersallsclub.com.au

2016 Tatts Tiara winner Miss Cover Girl

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Tattersall’s

TIARA RACE DAY Tattersall’s Tiara Race Day returns to Eagle Farm Racecourse on Saturday 22 June to close the Winter Racing Carnival for 2019

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njoy non-stop racing action throughout the day, with an eightrace program featuring the Group One Sky Racing Tattersall’s Tiara, where the highest ranked fillies and mares race nationally!

Punters have plenty of opportunities to win big with two Group three Races including the Lazy Yak Tattersall’s Cup, two listed races and finally the country comes to the city with the Battle of the Bush Finals.

Tattersall’s Tiara Race Day also proud to be supporting Legacy with a family friendly race day including free kids’ entry, rides and entertainment for the whole family within a dedicated family area.

Limited hospitality packages are still available, to enquire contact racing@tattersallsclub.com or call 07 3331 8866.

Gates open at 10:30am with General Admission and Members’ Stand tickets available to purchase online or at the gates starting from only $20 for General Admission.

Don’t miss out on Tattersall’s Tiara Race Day, Saturday 22 June 2019.

Stay up to date! Follow Tattersall’s Racing Club on Facebook at www.facebook.com/tattersallsracingclub and Instagram @ tattersallsracingclub or visit the website www.tattersallsclub.com. au/racing to find out more.

Winter Racing Fashion is highlighted through the Wintergarden Fashions on the Field which returns with an all new panel of judges and hosted by Miss World Australia, Tess Alexander at Eagle Farm Racecourse with great prizes up for grabs including return tickets to Singapore for the Best Dressed male and female winners thanks to Singapore Airlines as well as $500 Wintergarden vouchers for the Runner Up male and female thanks to Wintergarden.

To close out the day, Country Music Hall of Famer, James Blundell will be performing live at the track! Performing hits such as “Way out West” James Blundell will bring the country to the track for Tattersall’s Tiara Race Day.

TAT T E R S A L L ’ S

TIARA RACE DAY SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019 EAGLE FARM RACECOURSE

Wintergarden Fashions on the Field Best Dressed Male and Female WIN return tickets to Singapore thanks to Singapore Airlines Runner Up Male and Female WIN a $500 Wintergarden gift voucher thanks to Wintergarden Registrations open on the day!

For more information visit www.tattersallsclub.com.au/racing

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THE HEINEKEN GOLD COAST CUP The Gold Coast’s favourite racing carnival event is back for 2019, held annually at Aquis Park Gold Coast, the highly-anticipated Heineken Gold Coast Cup promises to draw impressive crowds to the Coast’s premier destination for racing enthusiasts.

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s one of the feature events officially launching the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival, plus increased prize money to over $1.4 million dollars, this raceday is set to be golden! 2019 will see the Heineken Gold Coast Cup revert back to a pure stayers race for the first time in over a decade, adding another top quality race for the long distance purists (2400m). An added incentive on the Bat Out Of Hall 900m sprint, where the winning trainer will also ‘Win One Hell of a Ride’ and take home a brand new Harley-Davidson®.

There will be eight main races held throughout the course of the day, featuring the TAB A.D. Hollindale Stakes Group 2 with its prize money now at $500,000 – you won’t want to miss out on this action-packed day filled of racing.

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The Fashions stakes will also be high with a new Fashions On The Lawn precinct, where attendees dress in their race-day finest with tailored suits for the men and colourful dresses, hats and fascinators for the ladies. New dress standards will apply, a ‘newbie’ category and amazing incentives for all entrants!

Exclusive dining packages are available in the Skyline or Gallery Restaurants, Canary Bar will bring The Dome to next level and the Heineken Lawn Party will be the place to be seen!

For more information https://www.gctc.com.au/upcoming-major-events/

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WARWICK PICNIC RACES Would you like to attend a race day like no other? Come along & join us for the 125th Ergon Energy Warwick Picnic Races!

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he Elders Real Estate Pavilion is where you want to be on Saturday May 11th. Tickets on sale now! $55 per person pre-paid or $60 per person at gate on the day. We have so much entertainment on the day, including the hotly contested Fashions on the Field Competition, all the live racing action, and a sunset sausage sizzle. Stay after the last race and enjoy our live band, Andrew Kucks & The Range who will play until late. Don’t forget this is a BYO area, you will need to bring your own food and Drinks.

For the everyday punter entry to the Public area is $15 per person with full bars, TAB, bookmakers and the canteen operating.

Ladies & Gentlemen dress in your best racewear as the Coachman’s Inn Warwick & Ruperts Bar & Grill Fashions on the Field has $5,000 in cash prizes for the Best Dressed Lady, Man, Couple & Millinery (only Elders Real Estate Pavilion ticket holders can enter).

The night before the big race day is the Spano’s Warwick Supa IGA Picnics Calcutta Friday May 10th starting at 6.30pm at Allman Park.

Admission is free with a live auction, Calcutta tickets are on sale for only $5.00 each, so bring your friends and form a syndicate. We will be offering catered finger food and Anna’s yummy hot ham rolls. A cash bar is provided, and smart casual attire is the dress for the evening.

This Day (May 11th) is also the day the Warwick Turf Club are participating in the Battle of the Bush Country Race Series. This means 16 qualifiers from eight country regions will compete in the TAB Battle of the Bush series where horses vie for listed level stakes of $125,000 in the final on Group 1 Sky Racing Tattersall’s Tiara Day at Eagle Farm on June 22nd.

Ticketing forms for the Picnic Races are available online at www. warwickturfclub.org.au or contact Secretary, Kristen on 0414 899 854.

KRISTEN DOYLE

Secretary – Warwick Turf Club Inc.

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risten started working at the Warwick Turf Club in November of 2010 starting out by doing two hours, two days a week, where now she works 5.5 hours three days a week.

Kristen has always enjoyed administration work & balancing the books. When she was 22, she moved to the Gold Coast from Killarney where she started as a Receptionist, then moved into the Accounts Department. At the Gold Coast she started in the Accounts Department & then worked in the Business Development & Events Management area.

Working in the above areas helped Kristen gain employment at the Warwick Turf Club because her role there is Customer Service, Accounting, Marketing & Events Management (all of these areas which she loves!).

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L-R Bianca Fermi, Josh Sebbens, Linley Frame, Matti Clements, Matt Murphy, Donna Jones

NATIONAL SUPPORT TEAM

SUPPORTING AUSTRALIAN ATHLETES The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Deputy Director Matti Clements says sports are working together to place greater priority on the importance of athlete wellbeing and mental health, 12 months on from the establishment of the AIS Wellbeing and Engagement division.

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he AIS has funded and embedded Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement managers in 15 sports over the past six months, with plans to further expand that network to 20 across Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games sports by end of 2019.

Ms Clements said the national expansion of these services had enhanced direct support for athletes, but it had also led to greater collaboration across Australia’s high-performance sporting system.

“Our goal is to support Australian athletes to be the most successful they can be in sport and life,” she said. “To do that, it has been critical to build a national approach to athlete wellbeing.

“The AIS has worked in partnership with sports over the past year to elevate the importance of athlete wellbeing in the high-performance environment. We want high-performance environments where coaches are having meaningful conversations with their athletes about their wellbeing as well as training.

“We are building a team of Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement managers across sports and Australia. It’s providing support in areas of mental health, career and education, community engagement, conduct and professionalism and personal development.

“As this network continues to grow, we look forward to launching some new initiatives this year with resourcing for mental health and activities where athletes can better interact with their local communities.”

Former world champion swimmer Linley Frame is working with Swimming Australia as their Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement

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manager. Linley, a former AIS scholarship holder, said it was important the AIS had led a national approach to athlete wellbeing.

“Sport has changed a lot since I was at the AIS in the 1980s and 90s, and the AIS has great oversight to identify areas where sport has the most need and requires leadership. Some sports have been further ahead in terms of athlete wellbeing support than others, but the great part of this network is that everyone is now connected and, of course, everyone is passionate about athlete wellbeing and making sure they’re our focus.

“It’s a gradual process but already I’m seeing athletes directly benefit from it. We need to continue to communicate to athletes – emerging pathway athletes in particular – so they know what support is available to them.”

The AIS will host a second annual Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement Summit in May. Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement managers across sports: Josh Sebbens (Athletics Australia); Donna Jones (Australian Sailing); Sarah Conlon (Basketball Australia); Megan Fritsch (Bowls Australia); Garry Moss (Hockey Australia); Angie Bain (Netball Australia); Alana Rybicki, Nikki Burger (Olympic Winter Institute of Australia); Matt Murphy (Paddle Australia); Bianca Fermi (Rowing Australia); Deidre Anderson (Softball Australia); Jason Patchell (Surfing Australia); Linley Frame (Swimming Australia); Troy Baverstock (Triathlon Australia); Sharyn Arnold (Water Polo Australia).

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THE CAIRNS AMATEURS 2019 Built around two days of horse racing, the Cairns Amateurs Racing Carnival is three days of fun, food, fashion, glamour and entertainment commencing on Thursday September 12 and culminating on Saturday September 14 with the final of two days of spectacular racing. This year will prove to be yet another showcase event.

Story by Cathryn Meredith • Images Courtesy Cairns Amateurs

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ast year was my seventh attendance at the Cairns Amateurs and the carnival continues to surprise me with new social events, dining packages and race day action.

With the weather almost perfect this time of year, experience Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef at its most fashionable best… northern Australia’s most anticipated social and sporting event icon, the Carlton Mid-Strength Cairns Amateurs Cup, is the feature of the Carnival, and a must-do social spectacle to witness live.

While the Cairns Amateurs Carnival is a racing event at its core, the Carnival transcends traditional sporting events with a combination of sport, fashion, celebrity and entertainment. With a reputation for fashion with a tropical twist, great racing and an unmatched scale and splendour this is the pinnacle of the north’s social calendar.

Enjoy the glamour of the North’s most prestigious event in the waterfront marquee on the Cairns Esplanade Eastern Events Lawn the glamorous ANZ Cairns Amateurs Ball.

Last year we were met on arrival by King Neptune and his mermaids; we were then served by his crew of mermen that rose out from the sea on the shoreline, carrying platters of spectacular seafood that we enjoyed with a variety of premium champagne, wines and spirits. We then danced the night away to a seamless assortment of colourful live music and were treated to the most spectacular fireworks display, that rose high over the Cairns waterfront.

Catch up with all the ladies and treat yourself to a fashionable morning of fine food with an indulgent selection of sweet and savoury delicacies with Pimm’s cocktails, champagne, tea and coffee at the Pimm’s Ladies Fashion High Tea, while enjoying the elegant fashion as Myer Cairns and renowned local and visiting milliners showcase their latest collections of the season.

Indisputably the pinnacle showcase of racewear in the region is The Cairns Central Fashions on the Field Competitions. Fashions on the Field is a highly-anticipated and hotly contested annual event comprising of local

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Angela Menz and Jessica Orford.

and interstate competitors. I am continually surprised by the high calibre of the contestants and am very much looking forward to the ladies outfits this year.

Each year judges from across the spectrum of Australian fashion and media cast expert eyes over the entrants. This truly creates an event of style, contemporary trends and elegance.

Cairns Central Fashions on the Field judges are chosen because of their exceptional standard of individual fashionable style and judgement. The criteria provide guidelines to assist the members of the judging panel when making their decision.

The race days are the Friday and Saturday where you can enjoy a variety of dining options. The Cairns Amateurs Fishbowl is in the bottom of the two-storey marquee located at the top of the track and is the ultimate race day experience. The air-conditioned marquee with floor to ceiling glass panel walls creates the perfect viewing for people-watching and Thoroughbred action while you indulge in a delicious three course lunch.

Trackside is the Vodka Cruiser Lawn Party.

This area is Party Central at the Cairns Amateurs Carnival. Join like-minded fillies and colts partying the day away while enjoying the colourful and vibrant atmosphere. Located at the southern end of the home straight, watch the horses thunder past on their way to the finish line! With the shade of marquees, umbrellas or trees, continuous live music throughout the day, private bars, Bookies and Tab facilities and a big screen TV you will have everything you need for a day out at the races!

The Cairns Amateurs Carnival is a must for your bucket list, and everyone should experience this fun Racing Carnival. So, round up all your friends and come and experience the Cairns Amateurs Racing Carnival for yourself - you won’t be disappointed.

If you would like to know more about any social events please contact me on cm@ ladiesinracingmagazine.com.au and I will be happy to help with all your questions.

Tickets are available on the Cairns Amateurs website www.cairnsamateurs.org.au

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An Inexpensive Way to Become a

PART-OWNER OF A RACEHORSE Purchasing a horse from a Registered Syndicate or establishing your own Syndicate is an inexpensive way for everyone to share in the ownership of a horse and enjoy the many benefits offered by the racing authorities across Australia to Owners.

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Story by Ron Williams

ou will also experience the unique thrill of seeing your horse race, as it’s galloping towards the Winning Post, whether it be at a Metropolitan, Provincial, Country or Picnic Racecourse.

My first venture into purchasing a share of a Thoroughbred was to invest in a 20% share of Stalwart in 1995 with four other like-minded individuals, one of whom was a very good friend, Ron Russ. Stalwart was trained at Epsom Victoria, by the late Jack Besanko, the father of current Cranbourne trainer, Ray.

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Around this time, the number of Owners listed in the Race Books and racing newspapers like Winning Post was changed from six to 10. Today the number of Owners now listed in the publications has risen to 20.

When the number rose to 10, I thought I would alter my strategy and instead of racing one horse at a time, I could have a smaller percentage in three horses.

Stalwart only won two races, with six placings, but he gave us a lot of happy moments. His most memorable win was at the old Pakenham track, when he paid 40/1 on the TAB, with his official starting price being 14/1.

My next thought was that it could be too expensive. However, upon investigation I was to find that there was a way to invest without stretching my budget, by investing with one of the many Syndicators (Promoters) who advertise in Winning Post, which is published weekly and available every Friday all over Australia.

Over the next few years, I dabbled in a few horses, one at a time, with limited success.

A list of Registered Syndicators in each State should also be available from your relevant State Racing Authority. In Victoria they are now listed

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in Inside Racing published by the Slattery Media Group as Register of Approved Promoters.

If you have a particular Trainer whom you admire and would like the Thoroughbred you are looking at buying a share in trained by them, you could contact the Trainer or their Racing Manager directly to see if they have any shares available for sale.

Any investment runs the risk of being unsuccessful. You must think of it as a hobby or buying shares. When the number of Owners was 10, the minimum purchase to have your name in the Race Book was 10%. Now that the number of Owners is 20, the minimum purchase to have your name or your Syndicate name in the Race Book is 5%.

Again, my strategy would change when I decided to form my own Syndicate, which I named Bungy Racing after my Royal Australian Navy nickname. It is registered annually through Racing Victoria at a nominal fee and includes some of my family members. This means that if you purchase a 5% share and you have five members in your family Syndicate you each have a 1% share, again sharing the cost in accordance with each member’s needs.

This also allows you to spread your wings and maybe race horses in different States, although various Trainers travel to different States to look for the appropriate races in which their horses have the best chance of being successful.

(Myer Classic). Maha Chakri won the Listed PFD Tasmanian Oaks in Launceston, Dai Ichi ran second in the Group 3 South Australian Sires Produce and Believe ‘n Achieve won eight races and ran fourth in the Myer Classic behind Sacred Choice, Typhoon Tracy and Hot Danish.

When Stimuli, now a six-year-old Gelding who was trained at Newcastle

by Kris Lees won at Warwick Farm in June 2015, we completed our bucket list of winning races in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Hobart. Since then he has had another win, so we have now won 39 races in the Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania. We haven’t had any runners in Western Australia, Darwin or the Australian Capital Territory, but will still be trying. publishers note: It is also possible to lease a horse through Thoroughbred Leasing www. thoroughbredleasing.com.au or purchase a share through Supreme Syndications www.supremesyndications.com.au who feature on further pages.

Also, in 2012 Magic Millions proudly introduced a world first for women.

Now in its seventh year, the ground-breaking Magic Millions Racing Women initiative is not only promoting racehorse ownership amongst females – it is increasing it.

Established by Magic Millions of owners Katie Page-Harvey and Gerry Harvey, the Racing Women’s Bonus of $500,000 which is on offer to the first four all-female owned or leased horses in finishing order in the Jeep You could also start a Syndicate with close friends, but this sometimes can cause problems, as one person must be nominated as the Manager of Magic Millions 2YO Classic, is in addition to race prizemoney of $2,000,000.

Fairdisagrees Trade winning A keyC.S. aimHayes of theStakes initiative is to highlight and promote the important roles the Syndicate. Sometimes you could find that a friend with thethe 2009 played by women in the thoroughbred racing and breeding industry.

Managers decision and a friendship could be put at risk.

I don’t want to give the impression that anybody can make money Whether you’re new into the horse-owning game or already a horse owner you could win BIG. by investing in a Thoroughbred. You have the monthly training fees to consider as well as your initial purchase price. There are horses that have cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe even several million and some have only returned a very small percentage of their purchase price, while others such as Belle Esprit, Black Caviar, Winx and Buffering have returned their owners very healthy returns on their investment.

Bonus Distribution

I normally prefer Fillies, because they generally have a better Residual Value, unless you are lucky enough to have a good Colt that doesn’t need to be gelded.

4th – $25,000 (5%)

We have enjoyed success with three Fillies who graduated to Open Class, who then went on to run in Group 1 races; they were Dai Ichi (VRC Oaks), Maha Chakri (Schweppes Australasian Oaks) and Believe ‘n Achieve

1st – $325,000 (65%) 2nd – $100,000 (20%) 3rd – $50,000 (10%) The horse must be an eligible Magic Millions Yearling Sale graduate and be nominated for the Magic Millions Race Series as the Bonus forms part of the Magic Millions Race Series for 2016 Yearling Sale graduates.

The horse must be 100% owned or leased by female connections to be eligible for the Bonus.

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MAGIC MILLIONS 2YO CLASSIC

One of the Most Sought-After Crowns in Juvenile Racing Despite running a three-quarter length second to winner Exhilarates, the ownership group of Dubious, had every reason to be ecstatic as their colt

by Not a Single Doubt crossed the line.

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he owners of Dubious, comprising eleven happy ladies led by Warrnambool’s Eileen Maher, collected first place of $325,000 in the Magic Millions Racing Women’s Bonus in addition to the prizemoney earned for finishing second, totalling a $695,000 windfall for connections.

Dubious, trained by the powerhouse partnership of Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, was one of seven two-year-olds which contested this year’s race, wholly owned by women. The female owners of Champagne Boom (David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig), Courseshewill (Liam Birchley) and Gala Miss (Kelly Schweida) also shared in the $500,000 Bonus for being amongst the first four Racing Women eligible horses in finishing order.

The 2019 edition of The Star Gold Coast Magic Millions 2YO Classic was the seventh awarding of the $500,000 Racing Women’s Bonus. Bringing new female participation into racing each year, the Racing Women initiative has resulted in almost 1,000 two-year-old horses being registered for the Bonus since inception.

Zara Tindall MBE, Patron of Magic Millions Racing Women, made the presentation to Eileen Maher, representing the owners of Dubious and being the proud mother of trainer Ciaron Maher, it was also a special family moment. The Racing Women’s Bonus win included a magnificent steel sculpture ‘Galloper’ by award winning Australian female artist Harrie Fasher.

With Zara as Patron, the Racing Women initiative has global reach. As well as the established It’s All About the Girls Syndicate, this January’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale saw purchases by the new Dubai-based Phoenix Ladies Syndicate, aimed at increasing female participation in horse racing across the United Arab Emirates.

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From next year, it’s not just the Gold Coast raceday that will reward women for getting involved with buying a yearling from Magic Millions.

Magic Millions, in conjunction with Racing and Wagering Western Australia, recently announced a new $75,000 Bonus to be shared by the first three eligible 100% female owned horses in the $250,000 Magic Millions WA 2YO Classic held at Pinjarra, commencing in 2020.

For your next opportunity to purchase a yearling eligible for the Racing Women’s Bonus, the Gold Coast National Yearling Sale will be conducted from 4-6 June. For further information on participating in the Magic Millions Racing Women initiative visit www.magicmillions. com.au

BLUEBLOOD THOROUGHBRED SYNDICATION in the Southern Highlands

Supreme Syndications is proudly locally owned and run by Director and syndication specialist Frank Galluzzo.

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ompeting at the highest level in sport is, in most cases, beyond ordinary imagination. But Frank and his eye for quality horses makes it a reality in the sport of Kings and Queens – offering shareholders a truly supreme experience.

They esteem to deliver the highest level of personal service – measuring their success, not only on the performance of their horses, but also through the enjoyable experience of the Owners.

The foals are reared at Keiron Park, situated on the banks of the Wingecarribee River, so they are never short of lush pasture. The Wingecarribee River, a perennial river that is part of the Hawkesbury– Nepean catchment, is in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia. They are regularly wormed and supplemented with vitamins and minerals for solid bone structure.

Preferred Trainers as detailed are all Group 1 winning trainers: Joseph Pride is currently training a 2yo filly by DECLARATION OF WAR out of GARNET ROSE. Joseph is based at Warwick Farm.

Gerald Ryan is currently training 3yo SUPREME DEAL and 2yo filly UNCLE MO/FIREGLO currently being syndicated. Gerald is based at Rosehill.

Tony Gollan is currently training 2yo filly by UNCLE MO out of MY CHERIE. Filly being syndicated at present. Tony is based at Eagle Farm and Barham, No management fees are charged so you save thousands through the life of the syndicate.

For further information visit http://www.supremesyndications.com.au

COMING SOON…. HOMEBRED YEARLING FILLIES CHOISIR X COEUR D’OR WINNER (City placed and winner producing mare) STAR WITNESS X MY CHERIE (Dual city winner from the family of Super Impose

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Women Race for

MORE MAGIC

Purchase a yearling at the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast National Yearling Sale, 5-7 June, and be in the race for the $500,000 Racing Women’s Bonus in 2020 run in conjunction with the $2m The Star Gold Coast Magic Millions 2YO Classic.

To be eligible, the horse must be 100% owned or leased by females and nominated to the Magic Millions Race Series.*

$10 MILLION THE STAR GOLD COAST MAGIC MILLIONS RACEDAY Featuring the $500,000 Racing Women’s Bonus

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*Conditions apply.

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THOROUGHBRED LEASING Leasing - The Economic Alternative

Looking to race a thoroughbred but don’t want to risk your capital upfront? Want the full ownership experience, without the cost of buying? Then leasing is your answer.

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horoughbred Leasing is unique in the Racing Industry, specialising in forming partnerships of hobby owners, to race well-bred colts and fillies on lease. This enables racing ownership to become available to all sections of society, in an affordable and enjoyable environment. Our team of professional trainers and their staff ensure each partnership has the best possible chance of success.

The main characteristics of leasing are as follows: • Once only, low cost administration fee to set up partnership/lease • Lessor/Owner, in conjunction with Thoroughbred Leasing, determines initial trainer, lessor percentage of any prize money won, and terms of lease • Trainer, in conjunction with Thoroughbred Leasing, determines racing programme • Manager (Thoroughbred Leasing) acts as conduit to Lessor/Lessees

Looking for Partners to join with us, and race on lease, Lot 404 from the recent Magic Millions sales, a SUPER ONE Filly out of an HONOR and GLORY mare. Same family as Group Performers DESERT WAR, LASER HAWK, ROMANTIC TOUCH, BURNING PASSION etc.

• Lessees only can terminate their interest in a lease at any time, given one month’s notice in writing • Full ownership privileges on race days, name in race book etc.

Currently, we have horses with prominent trainers including Bjorn Baker, Tony McEvoy, Matt Dunn, Joe Pride, Jason Coyle, Clare Cunningham, Jason Deamer, and will place our latest lease filly with Edward Cummings, setting up new stables at Hawkesbury. www.thoroughbredleasing.com.au (Hobby Owners – No Withholding Tax Payable) Phone Graeme 0407 948 483

(Hobby Owners – No Withholding Tax Payable)

P. O. Box 6263 NORWEST NSW 2153 Mobile (0407) 948483 Email: gsm08619@bigpond.net.au graeme@thoroughbredleasing.com.au

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DIANE MURPHY

From Track Rider to Trainer Beaudesert trainer Diane Murphy is reminded of her 2018 Rockhampton Newmarket win every time she looks out her back door. A new stable block on her well-established rural property at Gleneagle, near Beaudesert, is tangible ‘bricks and mortar’ evidence of a wisely invested winning percentage.

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iane, 47, won the prestigious Central Queensland Sprint with Peacock, a 5YO Lonhro gelding having only his second start for the stable after being transferred from Godolphin head trainer James Cummings. A month later Peacock, purchased at a mid-year Magic Millions National Sale by Gold Coast businessman Jack Pakis, notched the Cairns Newmarket.

Diane is first to admit that she is a low-profile trainer, but her credentials and work resume stack up impressively. As a teenager the expatriate Kiwi rode future Melbourne Cup winner Tawrrific in trackwork and worked for prominent trainers in New Zealand and Australia as well as having two stints working as a breaker and work rider in Japan. She also rode as an amateur jockey on the flat and over fences in New Zealand for a couple of years For the past 15 years Diana and husband, Craig, and children Dylan, 21, and Georgia, 19, have been based in the Beaudesert area where she was one of the busiest work riders for many years, frequently riding as many as 26 horses work a morning.

A late starter in the training ranks, Diane is now in her seventh season and committed to growing in all aspects of the craft.

“It is a work in progress and I’m constantly trying to build the quality of my stock,’’ she said. “I don’t sit still and look behind me … I look forward.’’

“I’ve been in racing all my life and learned something from just about everyone I’ve been involved with over the years. You don’t stop learning.’’

She currently has 10 horses in work and would like to increase her numbers to 15 with another half dozen on the books.

“We are well set up to accommodate those numbers on the property and it is quite easy to float them into Beaudesert for work each day,’’ she said.”

“Our property is functional, and horses can have a lot of time in the paddock. They are only locked up at night or if it rains.

“They all seem to thrive in the environment.’’

Diane, who rode her first gallop before her 15th birthday, “hung up her boots” nearly a year ago.

“I’m fortunate now to have good, reliable work riders at Beaudesert and I try to look after them. I know what it is like … I’ve been there and done it.’’

Born in the small North Island town of Dargaville, where the racecourse was closed last month after 140 years of operation, Diane’s family moved to Cambridge when she was almost 15.

“I was essentially a farm girl and didn’t settle into high school, so I asked my father if I could leave if I got a job,’’ she recalled.

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“Dad said I could, so I went down the road to Cambridge racecourse for the fun of it and saw (trainer) Chris Wood.

“He asked me if I could ride and I said I loved riding. Then he picked up an exercise pad and said, ‘have you ever ridden in one of these?’’’

It was all new to the teenager, but she’d always had ponies at Dargaville and competed at pony club and shows.

She wasn’t fazed.

“He gave me a helmet, adjusted the irons and off I went riding work,’’ she said. “About three weeks later he asked me to school horses over fences and I loved it.’’

During her time with Chris, who trained black-type winners Kaapstad Way, Al Akbar (sire of Winx’s mother), Allegro and Des’ Dream, Diane rode a young horse named Tawrrific that went on to win the 1989 Melbourne Cup after being transferred to Lee Freedman.

The much-travelled Diane then went to Perth with new husband Craig, who was working in the mines after a period as a trackwork rider for Bart Cummings and others.

“Both our kids were born in West Australia and I worked for a trainer in Bunbury for a while,’’ she said.

But wanderlust reared its head and Diane harboured a desire to return to New Zealand with her family.

“Craig said he’d meet me half-way and we decided to go to Queensland.’’

The Murphy’s settled near Beaudesert and before long Diane was riding work for the late Ted Ainsworth, Laurie Richardson and other local trainers.

“Ted was an important part of our life when we moved here. He was a real gentleman, and nothing was too much trouble,’’ said Diane.

She transferred from Cambridge to Matamata and worked for trainers Roger James and Kenny Rae, both regular visitors to the Queensland winter carnival.

“When my kids were at primary school I’d get them out of bed at 2.30 am and take them to Ted’s place before going to the track. Brooke and her sister, Melissa, used to look after them until it was time to go to school. It worked out well.

Diane took out an amateur rider’s licence and had a “little bit of success” competing on the flat and over jumps. “I had plenty of bumps and bruises as well,’’ she laughed.

“I was freelancing at that stage and riding up to 26 a morning. There weren’t enough riders around and you just put your head down and got the work done.’’

She celebrated her 18th birthday in Japan the year after taking up a oneyear deal to work breaking and pre-training.

“It was a great experience and was the year Better Loosen Up won the Japan Cup and Tawrrific the Melbourne Cup,’’ she said. “It helped me grow as a person and to stand on my own two feet.’’

Diane had been riding work at Beaudesert for more than five years when she was injured in an accident coming off the track one morning.

She broke her pelvis and hip as well as other injuries which necessitated almost 10 weeks in hospital. The incident ultimately sparked a catalyst for change.

Diane’s connection with Tawrrific resulted in her having one of the biggest bets of her life on the Cup winner.

Craig, who was not working in the racing industry, suggested she might want to “have a crack” at training.

“In Japan we had our food and board covered and were paid monthly.

So, I put my whole monthly pay on Tawrrific to win the Cup.’’

“At the time Craig and I had two horses that Ted Anisworth trained,’’ she said.

In the early 1990s Diane went to the Gold Coast and rode work for trainers Harold Wilson, Gary Stewart and Kaye Tinsley.

“We were pretty well set up on our current property at Gleneagle so it made sense to take out a licence.

“It took me a while to get used to the coast, so I went back to Japan for another nine months,’’ she said.

“I was granted a licence in 2008 but really didn’t get into it seriously until a couple of years later.

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Ted was a great help when I started. He was only a phone call away if I needed advice on anything.’’

Diane trained her first winner at Ipswich in July 2010, when Sosueme won a maiden.

“Craig had bought her for $5,000 as a yearling … things started to move along after that, mainly by word of mouth.

“You have to take your horses to places you think they can win and I’ve never minded following the country circuit.’’

In the early years Diane’s stable comprised cheap horses but she achieved consistent success. One $4,000 purchase, Cashinko, won seven races and was placed nine times.

Her first metropolitan Saturday winner was Mishani Phoenix, partowned with Jack Pakis who has become a major supporter.

“Jack has been very good. He is improving my stock and has been a terrific owner,’’ said Diane.

His words were that “I will give you a three-year trial. I can afford to buy decent horses for you, so I will give you some decent stock.’’

Jack purchased Peacock at the Magic Millions National Sale earlier this year. The horse had his final race start for James Cummings when winning a $100,000 race at Sandown in May. Jack also bought Toca Picta at that Magic Millions sale from Darley.

Jack originally earmarked Peacock for the Eye Liner Stakes, but Diane wanted to give him a smidgen more time and aimed at the Glasshouse at Caloundra where he finished a creditable sixth on a heavy track. At his next start, Peacock prevailed in the Rocky Newmarket.

Tried horses dominant Diane’s current stable and she is keen to add youngsters to the team.

“I love working with young horses and like to educate them my way,’’ she said.

“The older ones usually come with some kind of quirk you have to iron out or problems you have to get your head around.

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Forecasting fashion trends is always tricky especially in the southern hemisphere, where our seasons run in opposition to countries where the major trends in fashion are set: Paris, Milan, New York and London.

Here in Australia we seem to have one foot firmly grounded a season behind and one foot breaking new ground in front of our northern friends.

It is in the unique world of racing fashion, with all its grandeur, that we lead the pack.

So, what will be on the racing fashion catwalks this Autumn/Winter season?

It’s all about sumptuous glamour.

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Autumnal hues:

Accessories:

Look for olive and kaki greens, beautiful burnt oranges and clay like reds, caramels, camels, tans, mustard yellows and grey. All the colours you’d wear to a shooting party weekend at Downtown Abbey.

For winter racing, accessories make the outfit! This season play with statement large belts, leather gloves, stockings, fur stoles (fake or vintage of course). Layering necklaces can create focal point on a plain top and the right earring under a hat will complete the look.

Tortoiseshell, bronze, and antique silver are all big in jewellery at the moment as are pearls and jewel tone gems. Finally, expect to see both tall and half calf shoe boots, with and without lacing under dresses and skirts, as part of the Edwardian trend this season.

Jewel tones & Metallics: Think deep amethyst purple, garnet red, sapphire blue and emerald green (we’re lifting the racing ban on this colour and throwing the superstition out the window). Combine these with the new season metallics: antique silver and bronzed gold for a truly regal look.

Animal Print:

Go wild for animal print! Leopard, cheetah, and snakeskin are everywhere and they demand our attention. If it’s a trend that scares you, try to introduce it into your accessories e.g. a beautiful heel or clutch. Beware however; wearing animal print from head to toe, including accessories may have you carted off to the zoo for a fashion violation!

Materials:

When the weather gets cooler, fabrics get heavier, but this season the look is to combine thicker fabrics with finer, light catching silks to create textural juxtaposition. Don’t be afraid to mix materials with wools and velvets, patent leathers and suede. Fabrics should move well and be expertly tailored as fashions on the field contemporary categories are introducing more acceptance of the jumpsuit, palazzo pant and pant suit on the racing fashion scene.

Details:

Make a statement with details this year and take some elements from the Edwardian trend with high necklines, frills, pleating, lace detailing, pussybows, and corsetry. Don’t try to replicate the full Edwardian outfit (aka Picnic at Hanging Rock style), rather take some elements that flatter your figure (higher necklines if you have a smaller bust, or corsetry if you want to taper in your waist).

Millinery: The rule for Autumn/Winter racing fashion is no sinamay or straw.

Winter millinery should be rich and bold, in keeping with your outfit.

Wear substantial headpieces made from wool & fur felt, leather, velvet and other fabrics with veiling for added mystique. Look to the young royals for the new headpiece styles hitting fashions on the field.

Examples include the arc that Kate wore at the christening and the berets and pillbox shapes that Meghan has been rocking. Without doubt the biggest millinery trend is that this winter is all about fedoras.

From extra-large brims, feather detailing, beautiful sumptuous banding and luxurious fur felts, these racing fashion trends are making their way out into everyday wear this winter.

As always, the advice for fashions on the field this winter is simple.

Ladylike is key, don’t go wearing something you would wear to the club, tight, strapless and short are not words that should describe a racing fashion outfit. This doesn’t mean you can’t push fashion boundaries and make your own mark on the trends. For a piece of endless wisdom that can always apply, follow the words of Iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel, “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.”

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KRISTEN BUCHANAN Believes in Good Energy

Wyong-based Trainer Kristen Buchanan is enjoying one of her best seasons and is hoping to surpass her 2016/2017 tally of 25 wins. Kristen currently sits in the top 30 trainers in New South Wales and has an impressive winning strike rate of 25% in this season to date.

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think when you have good energy things seem to flow easily. I believe that’s a big part of it personally,” Kristen said.

“That might sound a bit ‘airy fairy’ but I’m gaining a lot more confidence in myself. I’m receiving better horses and owners that trust my judgement, while also receiving plenty of support from old and new owners. It all kind of builds and you get on a roll.”

Kristen’s ‘roll’ has seen with an impressive increase in winners in this season, as she seems set to soar past last year’s total of 17 wins in 2018/2019 if the wins keep coming.

Kristen said, “It’s my goal this year to have a winning strike rate of 20% and it’s great to be sitting in that top 30. Realistically, we have a lot of country wins in there, but you must take your horses where they can win and that is what we are trying to do.

“I’d love to have more horses running in the city and we will. We have some really nice young horses coming through, but you must go where you have to go. I think my placement now is a lot better. It’s all just coming together.

“I have a really good team in the stables now and very competent staff, so I feel like we have a really good handle on the horses. I know them well, I know where to place them with the right crew to help me. It’s very satisfying because everybody works very hard.”

With her recent success has come more requests from owners to train

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their horses and Kristen now has around 50 on her books. “I have had a lot of interest this season. Several people have come over since Ben Smith was outed and just other people taking notice of our strike rate, ringing and enquiring.

“I’ve had the opportunity this year to buy nice horses as yearlings, good types, decent pedigrees and for me that’s really exciting. Up until this point I’ve just had horses that I could fix, or try to fix, the cast offs and the lesser bred horses, that would take time and while I don’t mind that, it is great to be getting some better opportunities now that we’ve proved ourselves a bit.

“I have 23 in work and I can’t see myself getting any bigger than that.

I like riding my own horses and I just don’t think I could really have a good handle on them if I had any more. I’d have to change from being a boutique stable and that’s not really my go. I think of it more as an art than as a big business for me. I just enjoy it, training horses and producing good results and I’m not ever going to be a squillionaire out of that. But it’s comfortable and I can do it with Mackenzie, because if you get more than that you are making it eight days a week and I don’t think I could do as good a job; I wouldn’t be comfortable with it anyway.”

Mackenzie is Kristen’s five-year-old daughter and the apple of her eye.

Juggling a growing stable and motherhood isn’t easy, but Kristen is fortunate to have the support of her mother, Lauraine. “I couldn’t do any of this without her help, she’s an amazing lady, she said.

“Mackenzie is a real little character. She loves the horses to a degree, but she also has lots of other interests too. Mackenzie was responsible for naming Red Cupcake, a six-year-old mare who won on debut at Port Macquarie last November. “She had an injury as a yearling and was a pet at home. We never had any intention of racing her, but one thing led to another.

Kristen also paid tribute to jockey’s Jeff Kehoe, Grant Buckley, Jeff Penza and Serg Lisnyy.

“It’s great to have all those guys in my camp. They try hard every time they go around and give me great feedback. I can’t place a high enough value on having good riders on our horses.”

Looking to the future, Kristen is excited about the prospects of several in her stable including Jazzland, Bid ‘N’ Bare and of course, Red Cupcake. “I have some really nice horses and it is exciting seeing them progress. I just hope we can keep getting the results for our owners.”

“She had always called her Cupcake because she’s quite round, so when I asked her what we were going to name her, Mackenzie said Red Cupcake.

I said that doesn’t really make sense, but she said, “no mummy, that will do the trick.”

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“After the win I said I’d get her to name all the horses,” Kristen laughed.

“Every time I hear the name over the speaker it makes me smile.”

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CASINO BEEF WEEK RACES Friday May 24th 2019 in Northern NSW, Casino holds a week full of events around the town called Casino Beef Week.

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he main event of the week, called the Casino RSM Club Beef Week Cup is always the biggest race meeting of the year for the town and the broader community, with prizemoney totalling $35,000 for the Cup race alone.

The day attracts horses from all over NSW and QLD and we expect a crowd total over 2,000 again this year to attend. This year there will be an eight race card with prizemoney of $189,000 up for grabs.

As much as the horse racing is a big part of the day, the social scene is equally as much of a drawcard. Fashions On The Field events are always very popular with excellent prizes for Best Dressed Lady and Best Millinery.

The Hotel Cecil Casino Gold Cup Race Day will be held on Saturday August 10th 2019 and is the second biggest day of the year for the Casino Racing Club. The Cup race this year will be increased to prizemoney of $35,000 which we hope will attract many more entries for the big race with an eight race card on the day. Fashions on The Field events on Gold Cup day are equally as popular with many entrants travelling many miles for the events.

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enee was born in Narromine in Western New South Wales and from the age of 14 started working for a couple of the local Racehorse Trainers while finishing her schooling. Renee’s first time away from home was a move to Scone where she completed a Horse Industry Operations traineeship in conjunction with Wakefield Stud.

Her first yearling prep was with Inverness Stud in Bowral taking yearlings to the January Magic Millions sales as well as other general stud duties.

Renee spent two years at the University of Sydney (Orange Agricultural College) completing the Equine Business Management course.

She was then offered a job by Gerry Harvey to work for his Baramul Stud at the January Magic Millions Sales and was then offered a full-time position on the Stud by the General Manager, Paul Thompson. Baramul was a great place to work and Renee spent 4 years there. Her duties in the end became Office Manager and Speller Manager, as well as other stud duties, whilst still being able to travel to sales each year with the yearlings as well.

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LYNN LOCKE

17 Years as the CEO of the Shoalhaven City Turf Club When Lynn looks back on how it started, she is amazed and is still passionate about this sport of horse racing.

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t was in 2000 that Lynn attended a party in Merimbula and met a very well-known trainer, Barbara Joseph. Little did Lynn know what that meeting would bring to her future. Lynn had always wanted to own a share in a race horse, and at that party she purchased a 10% share, along with nine other ladies, in a horse named Dancarama. Lynn and Barbara also formed a wonderful friendship that still lasts today.

The fun and success the ladies had was fantastic. Although not a city winner, they enjoyed lots of fun times including a win in 2003 at the Queanbeyan Cup. Prior to that Dancarama ran and won at the Archer Racecourse Nowra in May 2001 and as they say, the rest is history. Lynn was hooked.

The then CEO asked her why she wasn’t on the Board at Nowra so of course next thing Lynn knew, she was. It was just 12 months later when the CEO decided to leave and on July 15, 2002 Lynn took over as what was then known as Secretary Manager.

The positive changes Lynn has witnessed in 17 years have been fantastic for Country Racing. Increased prize money, increased funding, Showcase races, Country Championships, TAB Highway races for country trainers and so much more.

Being a CEO of a Country Race Club is often a thankless job but one that nonetheless is very rewarding. It is not all glory and sometimes the CEO has to get down and dirty, donning gum boots and walking the racecourse to see if everything is ready for that race day.

The position with the Race Club has given Lynn the opportunity to work closely with the local community, to support local events and organisations and this year the Club held a fundraising race day for local farmers to assist them in their time of need.

In 2005 the Club hosted their first Girls Day Out and the special guest was Bec Cartwright, who was at the time one of the stars of Home and Away. Coupled with the Nowra Cup this day has grown into one of their most popular race days that attracts people from all walks of life to the racecourse. Many trainers, metropolitan, provincial and country, bring their horses to contend for the prestige of winning this race. In addition, the girls come for the fashions and of course the boys follow the girls, creating one of the biggest crowds of the season.

Shoalhaven City Turf Club has been fortunate enough to apply for and receive many Government, both State and Federal, grant funding over the years.

Without a doubt the greatest thrill for the Club was when they were successful in obtaining over $500,000 of NSW State Government

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funding to extend the dining room. This was not only a bonus for the Club’s racing patronage, but it also became an opportunity to offer a great facility for events, weddings, parties and conferences and of course increase employment in the Shoalhaven.

The icing on the cake was when the Club received the NSW Racing Award for Outstanding Achievement at last year’s Country and Provincial Awards ceremony. It took 17 years to get there but it was well worth the wait, as well as the blood, sweat and tears.

The friendships Lynn have developed with other CEOs and other Clubs has been fantastic. The Racing Industry now boasts a large number of female CEOs. In the early days there were only three or four females, and they worked together in what was then considered a ‘man’s domain’. It is great to see that number has increased substantially, and hopefully will continue to do so.

Lynn was also fortunate to have the full support of her wonderful husband, Michael, who sadly passed away earlier this year.

Michael was always there to give Lynn a hand and put in many hours of voluntary work at the racecourse. He was also full of advice and of course some Lynn took on board and some she didn’t.

Being in the position of CEO of a racecourse might not sound attractive to some, but Lynn believes it’s a fantastic and rewarding opportunity and one that she is very grateful to have had the opportunity to experience.

Lynn hopes to inspire other women to join the Racing industry in any form, and certainly encourages any ladies considering the move to take the plunge and enjoy the same rewards that she has been lucky enough to experience.

Celebrating the Dining Room Opening. left to right: Gareth Ward MP, Lynn, Paul Toole (Minister for Sport and Racing at the time) and Paul Green MLC.

It’s Time to Frock up for the Annual Girls Day Out at

SHOALHAVEN CITY TURF CLUB! The annual Country Motor Company Girls Day Out/Nowra Cup is fast approaching! The day will be held on Sunday May 26th 2019 at the Shoalhaven City Turf Club, Archer racecourse.

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he race club is located in Nowra on the picturesque New South Wales south coast, and it is a race club that is steeped in history with Nowra being home to two Melbourne Cup Winning horses – Archer (whom the track is named after) and Arwon which is Nowra spelled backwards.

The day hosts the Showcase Nowra Cup and top- class country racing will be on display throughout the day. The other major race on the day is the Belle of the South specifically for Fillies and Mares and in line with the Girls Day Out theme.

The other highlight of the day is the Fashions on the Field competition, with a $10, 000 prize pool up for grabs across five categories.

Sharon Lenton from Thoroughbred Events Australia will host the Fashions on the Field competition, alongside a prestigious judging panel.

Last year, the competition was hotly contested, and the race club saw a new level of fashion at their track. In 2019, they are once again hoping to see a high level of participation and some beautiful race day fashion on display.

“What could be more fun for a Girls Day Out race day then getting all dressed up, drinking some bubbles and hopefully backing some winners … and all with the girls,” said the turf’s club CEO, Lynn Locke. “It’s all about having classy race day fun.”

Patrons not wishing to take part in the fashions can still be winners with a $1,000 Viva Holidays voucher up for grabs to one lucky person on the race day. This promotion is run in conjunction with My Travel Expert Nowra and has been a popular addition to this fantastic race day. Just be on course to enter.

Race Day packages are available. Please contact Shoalhaven City Turf Club on - phone: (02) 4421 4550 or call the Club’s Event CoOrdinator on 0412 587 707 for more information or if you would like to book a race day package. Visit our website www.sctcnowra.com.au or join us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Goldners and their CEO

CLARE OXLEY

Goldners Horse Transport have been putting horses first for the past 75 years and will continue to do so for an indefinite time.

The brainchild of James Gustav (J.G.) Goldner and his wife Ethelene, the company started with modest beginnings, transporting horses from Morphettville Racecourse in 1945.

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fter J.G’s passing in 1978, his daughter Beryl assumed the Chairmanship of the family business. Beryl was a female pioneer in Australian business, especially in the transport of horses.

With her brothers, Donald and Maxwell, as shareholders, she worked long hours to ensure that Goldners quality service was always delivered.

The success of the Goldners business and the continual building of a reputation for the best interstate service for equine transportation allowed an expansion across eastern Australia, and the establishment of new headquarters in Sydney in 2007.

In 2013, in order to ensure that the horse industry continued to receive Goldners quality service for many years to come, the company was acquired by a private investment firm based in Melbourne.

“Having a passion and an understanding of horses and our clientele is critical in this industry”, she said.

It was Year 10 work experience with trainer Ron Quinton at his Randwick stable that sparked Clare’s interest in the thoroughbred racing industry and led her to start her own successful horse clipping business of both performance and thoroughbred horses across Sydney. She juggled this with track rider duties at Rosehill Gardens for Chris Waller and her own thoroughbred re-education business from her agistment property in Dural.

Proving their desire to provide the highest quality service, the Goldners fleet includes DVR cameras on all trucks as well as larger ventilation and many other safety and wellbeing features. In 2017, Goldners partnered with Charles Sturt University to conduct a detailed research project on the effects transportation has on horse health and welfare.

Upon his retirement from racing, Chris was later to send to her his first Group 1 winner and Doncaster Handicap winner Triple Honour. After his retraining into a new career, Clare and Triple Honour became an exceptional eventing team with many successes. This unfortunately ended when he broke a leg in the paddock, however after surgery and rehabilitation he now happily lives in retirement in Hawkesbury and Clare visits as often as she can.

Today, with a rigorously maintained fleet and experienced staff, Goldners continues to be a trusted name within the industry and one dedicated to the safe and reliable transportation of your equines. Among the 27,000 horse movements they make each year, Goldners can count 2019 Melbourne Cup winner Cross Counter as a very happy customer.

Entrepreneurial in nature, Clare designed and implemented the first ever mobile saddle fitting service whilst she was Store Manager of Dural Horseland. The ‘try before you buy’ service allowed customers to have saddles fitted correctly to their horses at their homes. This is now a national service which most saddleries now offer.

It is well known that to have a successful company you must have a strong leadership team. Clare Oxley is the Chief Executive Officer of Goldners Horse Transport. Over the past 12 months in her role, she

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An introduction via Centennial Park Vets veterinarian Tim Roberts led to Clare working for Gerry Rose, owner of Nature Vet, as Product Manager. Through her work with Nature Vet, Clare was involved in the development, manufacturing, sales and

international exportation of Equine Health Supplements. This role lead to other high level Sales, Marketing and Management roles within the equine industry, including Sales and Operations Manager for AIRR Pty Ltd and Chief Executive Officer of Biocel Australia.

Knowing that you’re only as good as the team around you, Clare has a highly qualified and dedicated team of 30 staff working together at Goldners. The team has a strong female contingent including Michelle Tomlin (Accounts), Nikki McGettigen (Operations Assistant), Chloe von Hollander (Driver), Heather Berney (Driver) & Kerry Morton (Driver), as well as new recruits Claire Bird (NSW & QLD Operations Manager) and Lucy Dwyer (NSW & QLD Operations Assistant).

With Clare at the helm, Goldners Horse Transport remains dedicated to their mission of providing the best equine transportation in Australia, continuing their innovation, investment and focus of their quality service to their longstanding and loyal clientele.

Goldners Horse Transport, putting Horses first since 1945

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WA FASHIONS ON THE FIELD WA Fashions on the Field is a racing fashion competition, consisting of nine regional heats held at major thoroughbred country race meetings across the state.

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he nine regional heats making up the WA Fashions on the Field include:

• Great Southern Regional Heat – Albany Racing Club – 6 January • Peel Regional Heat – Pinjarra Race Club – 9 February • South West Regional Heat – Bunbury Turf Club – 6 March • Gascoyne Regional Heat – Carnarvon Race Club – 8 June • Pilbara Regional Heat – Port Hedland Turf Club – 21 July • Kimberley Regional Heat – Broome Turf Club – 13 August • Goldfields Regional Heat – Kalgoorlie-Boulder Racing Club – 2 October

• Wheatbelt Regional Heat – Northam Race Club – 6 October The winner of each regional heat receives a trip to Perth to compete in the WA Fashions on the Field Final at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday 30 November.

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Great Southern Regional winner The winner of the 2019 WA Fashions on the Field Final will take home a trip for two to London to attend Royal Ascot with Motive Travel plus $10,000 spending money thanks to TABtouch and a $5,000 Linneys jewellery voucher.

With such a prestigious prize on offer, the competition is heating up, with each year becoming even more competitive. The winners of the first three heats include, Ainslie Jackson winning the Great Southern Regional Heat, Bernadette May winning the Peel Regional Heat and Khristina Vasko winning the South West Regional Heat.

In addition to the nine regional heats, any winner of a WA regional Fashions on the Field competition is able to enter into an online wildcard competition, for a chance to score a spot in the Final.

For more information about WA Fashions on the Field, visit wafashionsonthefield.com.au

NORTHAM RACE CLUB

A Picturesque Town With a Vibrant Event Calendar Just a short drive from Perth through the rolling hills of the Darling Range is the beautiful Avon Valley and at its heart is Northam, with preserved historical and natural wonders.

While you may be planning a day trip from Perth just for the action of the races and the exciting Fashions of the Field, you are missing some of the best things the town has to offer.

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Images by Western Racepix and Windward Balloon Adventures

he town centres around the Avon River, home to the only natural breeding place of the White Swan in Australia since they were introduced in the early 1900s. The town has a specific Swan breeding enclosure which is a great spot to sit and watch the swans in their natural environment. Another natural wonder of the town is the flora and fauna of Burlong Pool. This is located just 5km from the town centre and has a rich population of migrating birds, kangaroos and turtles just to name a few.

While enjoying your time in the town be sure to stop into Bilya Koort Boodja Centre for Nyoongar Culture and Environmental Knowledge. This newly established centre offers an interactive educational experience and shares the culture of the Nyoongar people.

After taking in the natural and cultural wonders the town has to offer, you can start on some of the historic buildings or why not just stay the night in some? Buckland Homestead, located a short drive north of the town was home to early settlers the Dempster family, also founding members of the Northam Race Club. This beautifully restored home and surrounding buildings now operates as a Bed and Breakfast. You may also choose to

spend the night in the renovated “Stables” of the Dukes Inn, one of the towns oldest watering holes.

What trip to Northam could be without floating high above the town in a hot air balloon? Windward Balloon Adventures flies April to November and is the only commercial hot air balloon adventure in Western Australia. Setting off at sunrise you float gracefully over the town and surrounding farmland before landing and being chauffeured to your champagne breakfast.

So, while you visit for the races make sure you stop a while and enjoy the beauty and wonder of Northam.

Be sure to note 2019’s FOTF events also, Sunday October 6 is Gannon’s Ladies Day which also features the running of The Races WA FOTF Wheatbelt Regional Heat and Sunday October 27 is the XXXX Gold Northam Cup featuring Fashions of the Field.

For more information see northamraceclub.com or stalk us on Facebook and Instagram for up to date information.

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CHELTENHAM ‘FESTIVAL’ Thursday puts Females to the Fore

With record attendances at Great Britain’s annual highlight, now re-branded as ‘The Festival’, the meeting captivated the public daily with heart-warming stories.

This year many of those stories have a female heroine, and that can only be good for racing in general.

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an Renton, The Jockey Club’s Regional Director of Cheltenham and South West Racecourses said: “It’s been absolutely wonderful, and the most extraordinary four days of Jumps racing. Thursday will live long in the memory of everyone who was there to witness it.”

Since its extension to a four-day extravaganza in 2005, the Thursday has often had its detractors dismissing it as the weakest card of the meeting. Not so in 2019, with Bryony Frost winning the days’ most valuable race, the Ryanair Chase on Frodon; becoming the first female jockey to win a Grade 1 chase at the Festival. This was not even her first Festival success, as she had won the 2017 St James’s Place Foxhunter Chase when riding as an Amateur. Since then she turned professional, still attached to the stable of leading trainer Paul Nicholls, who supplied Pacha Du Polder, which gave her that all important first Festival victory.

Wiping away tears Bryony said: “Frodon received his day. He is Pegasus, he has wings, and he is the most incredible battler. He travelled and by God he jumps! When he was overtaken two out, most horses would quit, but he grabbed me by the hands and seemed to say, ‘don’t you dare give up, don’t you dare not send me into the last, I want this more than you, now come on!

“He is the perfection of determination. Look at what he has done and tell me he does not love racing. He is unbelievable. The dream he has just made come true for me is just incredible.

He deserves every single pat, carrot and polo.

This was his day. It was just incredible. I can’t explain how much I love that horse.”

That win gained her front-page positioning in the national press – a rarity nowadays for British racing where the Sport of Kings and Queens must fight for its berth in its traditional home of the back pages. Bryony has that rare ability to convey the excitement of race riding and empathy for her horse, she is gaining her a huge following and those that seek to promote the sport would be foolish to ignore.

No sooner had eyes been dried after Bryony and Frodon’s front-running win, when another Festival fairytale unfolded in the Grade 1 Sun Racing Stayers’ Hurdle. Paisley Park, who looked to have an impossible task at the home turn, impressively reeled in the field, staying on strongly up the hill and had so much in hand that a final fence blunder could not stop him galloping into Festival folklore with his ears pricked.

The story is made for Hollywood: a horse that nearly died and an owner blind from birth. Emma Lavelle had her first Grade 1 winner after twenty years of training, when she won at Ascot last December.

Rapidly following up on Festival Trials Day in January, Paisley Park was duly installed as favourite for the Festival’s long-distance hurdling championship. He may not have been foot perfect in the final act, but the manner of his win suggests that there must surely be another blockbuster sequel waiting to be written.

Emma had enjoyed Festival handicap wins with Crack Away Jack in 2008 and Pause And Clause in 2010, but Paisley Park’s success was in her own words different gravy, not the least because her husband, former jockey Barry Fenton rides the sevenyear-old every morning and owner Andrew Gemmell has been a long-term friend and valued supporter of the yard.

Emma said, “You just kind of feel those fairytales can’t happen, and the most emotional I’ve been today is after Frodon won for Bryony. I thought ‘Oh my God, that’s amazing, but now she’s gone and stolen the whole fairytale. But we were able to get a chunk of it so it’s okay!”

She added: “I felt that if the will of the people was anything to go by, this horse was going to win. He had so many people behind him and they were probably just blowing him up the hill. It’s just brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.”

Laughing wryly, she continued: “I cannot say quite how bad our hangovers are going to be in the morning.”

Whilst the Paisley Park supporters were still celebrating in the winners’ enclosure, the runners for the Brown Advisory and Merriebelle Stable Plate Handicap Chase were already in the paddock. The Grade 3 contest was to supply another female win when Lizzie Kelly partnered Siruh Du Lac to a stirring victory, another combination following up on Festival Trials success. Trained by Lizzie’s stepfather Nick Williams, the pair were left in front early, and though not the original game plan, she made the most of the gelding’s jumping ability to dictate the race. She even admitted that she was surprised by his ability to quicken up the hill to win by three-quarters of a length. oppposite: Bryony Frost & Frodon. top: Emma Lavelle. left: Siruh Du Lac and Lizzie Kelly

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Like Bryony two races earlier, Lizzie was full of praise for her horse and her team saying: “Siruh Du Lac and I work well together because I love that sort of heart on your sleeve type of ride; it works for me and it works for him. They don’t really give me any instructions; they just go out and do what has to be done. It’s always lovely when you are riding for people who allow you to make the decisions.”

Lizzie, who had also tasted Festival success last year, applauded her female colleagues for raising the bar: “It was fantastic watching Bryony. She and Rachael Blackmore, who won the Close Brothers Handicap Chase on A Plus Tard on the Tuesday, are excellent jockeys and are making us perform better. I am delighted we have a very good girls’ weighing room now. With three winners this week, it is great.”

Rachael Blackmore & A Plus Tard

These were not the only female successes on Thursday. Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale is a boutique affair offering a small select band of mostly maiden pointto-point (amateur jump races) winners. A recent addition to the Festival proceedings, the sale takes place in the winners’ enclosure after racing, the horses having been available for viewing during the day. Top lot of the 23 horses offered was a four-yearold filly, My Whirlwind, who realised an impressive £400,000, the highest amount ever paid for a point-to-point mare.

It is not that long ago that NH breeders cursed the arrival of a filly foal, knowing that there was little or no market for them. Much has been done to address the issue, by way of a mares’ weight allowance and an expanding series of mares’ only races. These included the sixth race on Thursday’s card, the Grade 2 National Hunt Breeders supported by Tattersalls Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle. My Whirlwind’s price that evening, in what was that Sales’ best record set of results, shows how far things have progressed.

The advance continued Friday when Rachael added to her Tuesday triumph by riding her own Grade 1 winner, Minella Indo in the Albert Bartlett Novices Hurdle, thereby equaling the 2018 landmark of four wins throughout the fixture for female jockeys.

She also becomes the third lady to ride a double at the Festival after Gee Armytage in 1987 and Nina Carberry in 2016. Based in Ireland, Rachael broke new ground last year by becoming the first female to be crowned Champion conditional (apprentice jumps jockey).

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The 2019 edition has certainly been the most level playing field ever for females at the Cheltenham Festival, whether they have four-legs or two. Despite the shadow of the animal welfare activists, the sport has plenty to be proud of in terms of equality when so often it is perceived as male dominated and outdated;- a positive that must be embraced and publicised.

above: Minella Indo & Rachael Blackmore

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Students Come from Across Australia for

EXPLORER CADETSHIP PROGRAM Not-for-profit organisation Thoroughbred Industry Careers (TIC) has taken an important step in its quest to guide & mentor young Australians into careers within the world-leading Australian Thoroughbred industry.

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hirty young horse-enthusiasts from regions spanning Gin Gin in Queensland to Northampton in Western Australia convened at the Australian Racing and Equine Academy in Richmond NSW to commence the inaugural Thoroughbred Industry Careers ‘Explorer Cadetship’ Program.

“The Explorer Program for young horse enthusiasts who are keen to learn about our industry, is a brilliant concept and one which Adrian [Bott; co-trainer] and I embrace enthusiastically” said Gai.

The Explorer Cadetship Program is designed to provide an educational pathway which will prepare young people for the many career options offered by Australian Thoroughbred breeding and racing.

This training program is part of a wider push by the not-for-profit organisation Thoroughbred Industry Careers, established in October 2018 to promote career pathways into the industry and introduce new educational opportunities for young people. Leading thoroughbred employers Gai Waterhouse/Adrian Bott Racing, Arrowfield Stud, Australian Turf Club, Chris Waller Racing, Godolphin Australia, Lindsay Park Racing and McEvoy Mitchell Racing are among those offering knowledge and expertise to TIC.

Kiara Henderson, 18, from Murrambucca in NSW has ridden horses most of her life from the age of six at Pony Club, mustering cattle on her southern NSW farm to even taking her horse ‘Banjo’ with her to Yanco Agricultural College. Kiara hopes to make the most of her chances after being selected for the program with ambitions to move into horse nutrition or even farrier work, concentrating on hoof health.

The program begins with a three-month practical and theoretical learning block at the Australian Racing and Equine Academy, while students reside at Western Sydney University (Richmond Campus).

Each student will then be assigned to a leading trainer where they will spend 4½ months on their first paid work experience in a racing stable, followed by 4½ months on a leading stud farm.

Mentoring and guidance will continue after graduation to help students find suitable opportunities in the areas that particularly interest them.

The program focuses not only on horsemanship but also life skills, manners, and etiquette, with Hall of Fame trainer Gai Waterhouse volunteering to conduct these classes herself.

“We can’t wait to meet this exciting group of young people and help them develop their potential. Great for them, very good for racing.”

TIC also acknowledges Racing NSW for their support of the program along with Inglis, Ranvet and Magic Millions for their sponsorship of the Cadets’ uniforms, the provision of breakfast each morning during the 12-week training and for providing financial assistance towards tuition fees for those students coming from states outside of NSW.

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CRUISING

is Roaring into the Twenties In association with Ambassador Travel I extend a warm welcome to join me on the 2019 Royal Ascot Racing Tour. This is undoubtedly one of the greatest race meetings in the world as well as being the most celebrated social events of the year.

Story by Richard Davey • Oceania Cruises

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ood things come in smaller packages.

It’s no secret that the number of people taking a cruise holiday has been consistently growing in recent years, and this has been made largely possible with the building of numerous newer and larger ships. However, as we move into a new decade, we are now seeing the small ship fleet growing in unprecedented numbers; many cruise passengers have decided that bigger is not necessarily better and new shipyards have emerged to build these small and truly luxurious vessels. in 2020, Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection’s first ship enters service. MSC, the company that is on track to become the largest cruise company ever and who are known for their new giant ships, are now working towards the introduction of their new smaller and luxurious class of ships that will carry no more than 1,000 holiday makers. Viking Ocean Cruises, has six ships already will be adding another twelve, Silversea have four new ships in the planning, Crystal, Regent Seven Seas and Seabourn are adding to their fleets, and the list goes on. The small ship renaissance has arrived.

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Oceania Cruises, cruising’s success story of today Oceania Cruises have become a modern-day success story, simply by providing a cruise experience that includes fine food, comfortable accommodation and surroundings, itineraries featuring many of the world’s great cruise destinations, more time in port, great value for money and choice. A choice of the great destinations, Alaska, the Med, the Baltic. A choice of ships with Oceania’s four popular and intimate classic ships, and their two newer ships that were created using feedback from their loyal followers. The vast choice of food options includes themed alternative restaurants at no extra cost including pan Asian, Steakhouse and Italian and luncheon buffets that will delight in their quality and variety, including daily Japanese selections. I should point out that I am not taking these words from a brochure or press release. I am a self-confessed food snob and once spent 7 weeks aboard an Oceania Cruises ship and thoroughly enjoyed the food. Oceania have trade marked their claim to have “The Finest

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Cuisine At Sea” and I cannot find anyone who disagrees. When I recently had the opportunity to reacquaint my tastebuds with Oceania’s cuisine, one taste of the Butternut Ravioli was enough to assure me that standards were as high as ever. I immediately rang Cathryn and arranged for her to go aboard for lunch and her impressions are here in this edition.

Rather than including everything in the cruise fare, Oceania recognises that not everybody wants to take full advantage of complimentary wines and spirits, and some would rather explore destinations on their own. Instead, you are offered O-Life Choice, where you select between complimentary beverages and included shore excursions. If you select neither, you will receive a generous onboard spending credit which may be used in the ships boutiques or spa or to make ad hoc tour and bar purchases.

Sailing with Oceania in 2020 means enjoying the fresh feel of the ships as they have emerged from comprehensive refurbishments that go beyond the usual renewal of carpets and upholstery. Oceania NEXT is the project that sees the company ready sail through the new decade.

Itinerary highlights for 2020 include a British Isles cruise that precedes the British Open, one of several cruises that use Dublin as the port for boarding and/or disembarkation, making for a far less busy and stressful experience than in other ports. 2020 also marks a return to Turkey along with perennial favourites, Alaska, Mediterranean and the Baltic.

Australia’s newest cruise line is here The Summer season of 2019/20 has brought us a new cruise line with sailings from Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland. Dream Cruises’ first ship to visit Australia, Explorer Dream will turn heads each week as one of the largest ships ever to pass under the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Brisbane’s Gateway. The first few seven-night cruises feature Newcastle and Queensland with the choice of sailing from Sydney or Brisbane. There will be a few New Zealand Cruises out of Auckland before a return to Sydney for a number of Tasmania and Victoria cruises. With affordable fares and drinks packages, Australians will love the value and fun being offered, along with food offerings that include Mark Best’s Seafood Grill, as Sydney’s most awarded chef goes al fresco. For those who like to cruise in extra style and comfort, and are happy to pay for a sublime experience, the Dream Palace suites include access to the most exclusive private club on any ship, anywhere. With just 42 suites, it is the seagoing equivalent of flying First Class. A private club, private restaurant and private pool area with classy cabanas awaits. For a Christmas and New Year experience, sail around New Zealand aboard Explorer Dream from 22nd until 29th December and stay on for a few nights in Auckland to enjoy New Years Eve in the City of Sails.

Racing and Christmas Cruises with Cunard.

It has been my great pleasure to host some groups aboard the Cunard Queens in recent years, with many new friendships being made. In 2020, we will be bringing in the new year in Auckland aboard Queen Elizabeth. We’ll be sailing from Sydney to Fremantle aboard Queen Mary 2 in March with optional winery visits, and a day at Perth’s Ascot Racecourse by the Swan River. There is also a one-way cruise in March from Sydney to Melbourne via Tasmania. Arriving in Melbourne on a Saturday, the racing fans amongst us will be of to Flemington for the Australian Cup and Newmarket Hcp. Whatever your special interests or hobbies, cruising is a great way to combine them with a love of travel and to travel with like minded people can lead to the founding of lifelong friendships. Cruising promises something for everyone as it roars into the Twenties!

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Oceania NEXT encompasses the most comprehensive suite of product and guest service enhancements that the brand has ever undertaken – kickstarting with a USD$100 million investment to completely transform its four R-class vessels, starting with Insignia. I was invited for a tour on the Insignia when she was docked at Portside in Brisbane and enjoyed a superb 4 course lunch. Insignia is the first of Oceania Cruises’ R-Class vessels to undergo a ‘better-than-new’ refurbishment.

Highlights of the re-inspiration include re-imagined menus featuring more authentic regional colour, flavour and local wines; dramatically transformed public spaces, refurbished restaurants and lounges featuring fresh furniture, lighting and ocean-inspired colour palettes, in addition to brand-new staterooms and suites.

All accommodation aboard Insignia, Regatta, Nautica and Sirena emerge with new bathrooms, new closets, desks and vanities, new sofas, chairs and tables, new lighting and mirrors, new upholstery, carpets and drapes, and state-of-the-art technology including interactive TV systems and USB ports.

Regardless of which of the gourmet restaurants you select onboard Insignia, there are no surcharges with the 5-star cruise dining experiences. Enjoy Toscana’s authentic Italian dishes, where all crockery is Versace, Polo Grill’s steakhouse fare, Red Ginger’s bold Asian flavours and French country cuisine at Jacques. Savour Continental cuisine, regional specialties, and Canyon Ranch cuisine.

We enjoyed our lunch in The Grand Dining Room with made-to-order American favourites in Terrace Café.

About Oceania Cruises Oceania Cruises is the world’s leading culinary- and destination-focused cruise line. The line’s six intimate and luxurious ships which carry only 684 or 1,250 guests offer an unrivalled holiday experience featuring the finest cuisine at sea and destination-rich itineraries that span the globe. Expertly crafted voyages aboard designer-inspired, intimate ships call on more than 450 ports across Europe, Alaska, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, New England-Canada, Bermuda, the Caribbean, Panama Canal, Tahiti and the South Pacific and epic 180-day Around the World Voyages. publisher’s note: Richard Davey is Cruise Manager at Ambassador Travel, Preferred Sales Agent for Dream Cruises, and Agent for Oceania Cruises. Richard is also Macquarie Radio’s resident cruise expert and is heard regularly on 2GB and 4BC.

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Soothe

MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS With Magnesium

Menopause can have disastrous symptoms manifesting as restless legs, cramps, sleep disorders, excessive stress reactions and oversensitivity, hot flashes and profuse sweating, heart arrhythmia, drying up of various places (including vagina), bowel and skin, as well as increasing stiffness and calcification of muscles and joints.

Metabolism can also slow down, leading to excessive weight gain and loss of waistline. Bones become dryer, more brittle and prone to breakage.

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agnesium deficiency can make menopause symptoms far worse by increasing hyper-sensitivity to stress. It can lead to over-emotional outbursts and even depression. As magnesium is essential for energy production, we can also get brain fog and chronic fatigue.

Without enough magnesium the body will have trouble detoxifying and cleaning its cells or replacing cells, because those enzymes responsible are magnesium-dependent. This leads to acidification and ageing of cells (as in a compost heap), lower metabolism, arthritis, and clogging up and stiffening of vascular systems (causing hypertension). All these processes need mitochondrial production of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the body’s electrical currency, which depends on magnesium.

That’s not all folks. If your doctor blames your emotional tightrope and stress sensitivity on ‘hormonal imbalance’, you may need to think again – this time with magnesium in the picture.

Magnesium is essential for the synthesis of cholesterol and is used to make DHEA, the master hormone from which estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and other hormones are made.

Therefore, when magnesium becomes depleted, your hormones can get out of synch too. As estrogen levels decrease, we tend to waste more magnesium in the urine, making us even more sensitive to stress, adrenaline release, panic, flight-or-flight responses and hot flushing. It’s a downward spiral.

How can I get more magnesium?

Magnesium is the mineral most likely to be in short supply in modern industrialised societies because soils and our food supply have become deficient and we suffer considerably more from a multitude of stresses – particularly chemical stressors. Many chemicals and heavy metals can block magnesium in the body, so that even if we are getting the average recommended amount of magnesium from diet, we may not be able to use it well.

Sometimes we need a lot of stomach acid to digest the foods that will give us more magnesium, yet as we get older our stomach acid tends to become weaker. This is another reason why magnesium tablets and powders are less effective. It is also difficult to get high concentrations of magnesium across the gut wall to the body’s interior and into your muscle and bone cells. Apart from a small amount getting through, the greater part is wasted in the toilet.

If you are getting more inflammation, stiffness and calcification in the soft tissue areas of the body such as muscles, ligaments, arteries and joints, then chances are your calcium levels are too high in relation to magnesium. As magnesium is the controller of calcium channels, and therefore influences our ability to relax and be flexible, be careful about ingesting calcium (or vitamin D) supplements when magnesium is low, which can further suppress your magnesium and harden you up faster. Lifting magnesium levels usually rebalances the system, as magnesium is a vital co-factor nutrient to leverage the benefit of those other nutrients.

Transdermal magnesium is now the preferred method used by many women to get more magnesium because it works faster and better than taking tablets. You can have magnesium baths and foot soaks, apply magnesium cream moisturiser (with anti-ageing effects), and/ or magnesium oil at higher concentration for more acute conditions and stiffness. Individuals will have varying needs, with some needing two or three times more than others. However, with transdermal magnesium you can use as much as you like without fear of overdosing, as the body is self-regulating and absorbs from the skin what it needs over time. It’s a beautiful, efficient and natural system of body care to help you stay younger, more relaxed, flexible and ‘juicier’ longer!

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Temelli Jewellery From the new Dainty Diamonds Collection, we love these fine bracelets in gorgeous designs accentuated with diamonds.

Available now in store and selected pieces online at Temelli Jewellery.

GO Magnesium 800 High Strength Sleep and Nervous System

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GO Healthy’s GO Magnesium 800 High Strength contains a higher potency of Magnesium, which is necessary for proper muscle and nerve function. GO Magnesium 800 High Strength offers a well absorbed form of Magnesium as an Amino acid chelate, which means it is bound to a protein helping it be easily absorbed.

Magnesium plays a necessary role in over 300 enzymatic reactions in the body and is involved in an equal number of essential metabolic reactions. These reactions allow for proper muscle function, including maintenance of a normal and healthy cardiovascular system.

SwissCard Nailcare As a portable SOS beauty salon and petite toolkit, the Swiss Card Nailcare includes a high-quality glass nail file, scissors, tweezers, pin and magnifying glass, as well as several screwdrivers and a ballpoint pen for the perfect addition to your handbag.

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Magnesium is found in leafy green vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds, which are not always a key part of the Western diet.

Where deficiency is its cause, Magnesium can relieve muscle spasms, cramps and restless legs – a common irritant affecting a good night’s sleep.

Magnesium may assist with relieving symptoms of PMS, particularly with regard to sugar cravings and headaches. $52.99 / 120 VegeCaps Available at leading pharmacies nationally. For more information, or to find your nearest stockist visit

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MILDRED ELWOOD

Wins FOTF Queen Elizabeth Stakes Day On Saturday, April 13, Longines Queen Elizabeth Stakes Day took Royal Randwick Racecourse by storm. It was here that the fashion set decided to step out in some of the season’s best ensembles, taking Fashion on the Field to a whole new level.

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ongines ambassador Jesinta Franklin, who wore a “strapless Toni Maticevski dress with silver detailing,” was a one of the judges for the Longines Prize for Elegance, which saw winner fashion entrant, Mildred Elwood take home a timepiece from the brand’s Longines DolceVita Collection.

Mildred wore a headpiece by Steve Harrison that she had purchased from David Jones in 2011 which she also had won best headpiece at Eagle Farm that year during the 2011 Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival. Her dress was from Zimmerman, shoes Nicholas Kirkwood and a bargain buy handbag from TK Max. Mildred said” I am thrilled to be a part of the historical day and the excitement generated

by Winx and I was so overwhelmed to have won such a gorgeous Longines watch. I am so thankful to the Australian Turf Club and to Longines and feel honored to be a part of this iconic raceday.

As Mildred is based in Brisbane, we will all look on with great anticipation as to her fashion trends over this years’ Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival.

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HATalk COMPETITION For the 2019 HATalk Hat Making Competition, the challenge was to create an original hat or headpiece inspired by the theme of Equilibrium – “a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced”.

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he competition was open to anyone, anywhere in the world, and was completely free to enter. A selection of prizes, valuing approximately $4,500 USD was at stake, as well as the honour of being included in the Official Exhibition of London Hat Week.

There were four winners that were chosen by expert judges, who were thoroughly impressed with the overall quality of this years submissions and had a very hard time choosing the final winners.

There were also 15 special mentions, including Kate McKell from J.A.R Millinery, who were shortlisted by the judges for their workmanship, originality and theme interpretation. Kate’s entry was ‘Where Worlds Collide’ the inspiration being drawn from the world spinning on the imaginary axis with the surrounding planets. Thinking of the rings surrounding Saturn, the adaption has come from curved lines transforming into straight lines. This highlights opposing forces to create Equilibrium.

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Milliner Profile

CATHERINE KELLY

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ovember 25th is St Catherine’s Day, a day for the patron saint of hats in France.

This traditional day was all the inspiration Catherine Kelly needed to launch her Sydney Hat Shop - Embellish Atelier in Sydney in 2005.

The studio...

Catherine Kelly welcomes new and existing clients to design and craft the perfect hat, fascinator, or headpiece to suit their personality, occasion and attire in a magnificently restored historic building with soaring pressed metal ceilings, rustic walls, and elegant chandeliers- Embellish Atelier at 128 Victoria Road Rozelle.

The French-inspired studio is an intimate space where her creations evolve over appointments with the client. Catherine’s style and colour inspiration comes from her travels, her interest in architecture and her studies in, and as a teacher of design, technology and millinery. “Studying millinery has been the perfect outlet for my passion for fabric, colour and texture” says Catherine who puts to use her skills acquired over 30 years.

The beginning...

Catherine grew up on a dairy farm and cattle station in rural Queensland and cites her upbringing as one where she was required to be resourceful, creative, inventive and courageous. “My love of millinery began when I was a young child and we were given a suitcase of hats for me to play dress ups in. I can still recall the fascination of all the beautiful flowers and trims and fabrics and I still have some of them. Learning to sew on my mother’s Singer treadle machine sparked a lifetime interest in fabric, fashion, pattern and colour. I would run over to the dairy to get mum to help me with a wayward seam or zip and run back to finish a garment for the local dance. I was also encouraged by my English grandmother who as a professional dressmaker remarkably made wedding dresses during the war from parachute silk. An early necessity of life was wearing a hat in the harsh outback sun and I have always been renowned for my collection of hats.”

Catherine’s career path took her to learning the art of teaching textiles and design at high schools from the Gold Coast to Central Queensland to the City of London School for Girls in London. Simultaneously she put her creative talent to use creating and marketing elegant gift items for Liberty of London to a luxury range of soft furnishings including bedlinen, cushions and lampshades in Sydney. And today as a milliner, Catherine offers seasonal collections of her millinery designs.

Accolades and awards...

Career highlights:

Diploma of Teaching - Home Economics 1982- QUT, Brisbane.

SCDA - Diploma Colour and Design, Sydney 2000.

Cert 2, certificate 4 Millinery Ultimo TAFE 2003, 2005 International Hat Arts Competition Winner Public Prize - Prix du Public L’atelier Musee du Chapeau in 2009.

Jean Carroll Award - Best Spring Derby Day Hat Co-founder of Hats and High Tea events.

2009 Sydney Royal Easter Show - 1st Place, Excellence Award and a Highly Commended for millinery creations.

Exhibition - The Art of Contemporary Millinery - Outlaws- Breathing Colours Gallery 2009.

David Jones Exclusive Collection- Melbourne and Sydney Stores - Spring 2010.

2012 Hat Life Hatty Award - contribution to millinery.

Millinery Tutor - Hats off to Brisbane - 2013, 2015.

Millinery Tutor- Lina Stein School of Millinery - Westport, Ireland 2013.

Hats selected for display at the XX1st Century Hat Exhibition, London 2015.

All About E. hats and masks for movie by Louise Wadley 2015.

Teacher- Sydney Community College- 1990-2015.

2015 Royal Melbourne Show - 1st Place - Winter Millinery 2015 Royal Melbourne Show - Commended- Themed Wearable Art Millinery- Halo.

Hats Selected for Milliner X Artisan 2016 London Hat Week Official Exhibition Finalist - Inner West Business Awards - 2016 Winner - Outstanding Youth Award- Sarah Jehan - Embellish Atelier - Inner West Business Awards- 2016 My Fair Lady - Assistant to Rebecca Read- Head of Millinery - Opera Australia. 2016

• Helping out with making the hats for the Opera Australia production of Ascot

Scene of My Fair Lady and meeting Julie Andrews.

• Nurturing and mentoring young model Sarah Jehan throughout her career- especially when she won Runner up top model worldwide - and seeing her grow into an amazing woman.

• Winning the Public Prize in Chazures-sur Lyons in 2009

Professional memberships...

Millinery Association of Australia.

Past Vice President - Millinery Association of Australia

Philanthropy...

Catherine and her children initiated and run the JSKfund in honour of her late husband John Skipper Kelly - supporting leadership opportunities for disadvantaged youth. Check out our upcoming Millinery competition Hattember www.hattember.com where we host a competition in conjunction with Hatters Millinery Supplies raining funds for the JSK fund.

Philosophy...

Her successful business is based on the principles of using only the finest textiles to produce the finest headpiece for her clientele. Catherine’s designs are timeless, and her bespoke pieces add glamour and elegance to all occasions.

“Wearing hats everywhere was part of my life, now it is my business. A hat completes an outfit. Everyone remembers someone who wears a hat”

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Millinery We Love Alison Clark Millinery

Winter Millinery

Learning and mastering her craft in Melbourne, Alison has taken her magic around the world, from the catwalks of Europe and back to home turf to compete with the best at the Melbourne races. From classic to romantic pieces to the eccentric, Alison has defined a unique brand which is emerging as one of the most sought after millinery labels amongst the Queensland celebrity racing scene. Alison possesses a genuine talent for style selection matched to individual personality and taste, Using only the highest quality materials and combining traditional techniques with a modern twist, her pieces dare you to take the lead and be the talking point at your next event.

Alison teaches her craft both in her studio and around Australia. Have Alison come to your town or your office for a unique experience. All the pieces are created at her Brisbane studio and consultations are welcomed by appointment.

0407 507 717

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J.A.R. MILLINERY

Marilyn Van Van den den Berg Berg Millinery Marilyn Millinery

is the creative label of Rachel Cockrell, a is the creative label of Rachel Cockrell, a qualified milliner and a member of the qualified milliner and a member of the Millinery Association of Australia who Millinery Association of Australia who has been creating millinery excellence for has been creating millinery excellence for over eight years. over eight years.

Featured in Harper’s Bazaar, British Featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Australian Vogue, Elle British and Vogue, Australian Vogue, Elle and Marie Claire, Marilyn Van den Berg Millinery has been worn by Marie Claire,and Marilyn den Berg Millinery has been worn by celebrities racingVan royalty. celebrities and racing royalty.

Not only a milliner, but an accomplished stylist, Rachel has Not only a milliner, an accomplished stylist, Rachel the has styled many events, but editorials and campaigns including styled many events, Runway editorials andfor campaigns including the Australian Women’s Show Spring, Summer ‘18/’19 Australian Runway Showfashion for Spring, New YorkWomen’s Fashion Week.

Racing wiseSummer she has ‘18/’19 styled New Fashion Week. fashion wise shecompetition has styled manyYork Fashions on the FieldRacing entrants to prestigious many the Field entrants to prestigious competition eventFashions finals andonwins. event finals and wins.

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Multi award winner for both Millinery and Fashion on the Fields - Ladies & Gents.

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On Our Bookshelf

BUSINESS A SURFER’S GUIDE TO Book Reviews PROPERTY INVESTING

By Paul Glossop RRP $29.99 Available from www.majorstreet.com.au

New book shows how Aussie surfer and former teacher accumulated a property portfolio worth millions to retire at 33. As the founder of award-winning property investing company, Pure Property Investment, Paul Glossop has used his unique strategy to help hundreds of Australians achieve financial freedom by investing in property. Paul says you need the right mindset to start off with, to educate yourself on what you want to achieve and surround yourself with the right team to provide support. He teaches readers how to:: •

find the best locations to invest

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understand different investment types

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renovate for profit & develop property

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invest in commercial property

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build long-term wealth & plan your exit strategy

Drawing upon over 16 years’ clinical experience helping 1000’s of clients achieve their weight loss goals, the book includes extensive research as well as Dr Katie’s personal experience of overcoming binge eating disorder and losing 22 kg herself.

CAREER LEAP

BEING YOU

By Michelle Gibbings RRP $29.95

By Maggie Eyre RRP $32.99

Available from www.wiley.com/en-au

The way we work is changing. Those entering the workforce today will have an estimated 17 employers and 5 careers in their lifetime. Roles are becoming automated across all professions and industries, and employees need to change their idea of what it means to be employed. The rise of freelancing and the gig economy means flexibility and independence, but it also means living with less security. While you can’t future-proof your job, you can future-proof your career, says careers expert, Michelle Gibbings. She draws upon decades of experience helping employees and leaders get fit for the future of work and provides a practical guide to prepare for the inevitable tides of change.

MAKE MONEY SIMPLE AGAIN

By Bryce Holdaway & Ben Kingsley RRP $ 29.95 Available from www.majorstreet.com.au

Bryce Holdaway and Ben Kingsley draw upon almost two decades of experience helping thousands of Australians to provide a practical guide to help you achieve financial peace.

By following their proven, 7-step money management system – Money SMARTS – readers learn how to get your finances on track to invest in your future, all in just 10 minutes a month.

Whether you’ve just entered the workforce, saving for a home deposit or looking for the best personal finance tool to help you get ahead, Make Money Simple Again empowers you with the clarity, structure and motivation to help you on the road to financial freedom. Money S.M.A.R.T.S link: https:// tpc.moneysmarts.com.au/ Bryce Holdaway and Ben Kingsley are the authors of the best-selling book The Armchair Guide to Property Investing, presenters of the phenomenally successful ‘The Property Couch’ podcast (with over 4.3 million downloads) and partners of the wealth advisory practice Empower Wealth. Bryce is the co-host of The Lifestyle Channel’s Location Location Location Australia and ABC TV’s Escape from the City.

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Available from www.exislepublishing.com and wherever good books are sold

What does your personal brand tell the world about who you are as a human being — both personally and professionally? In this social media obsessed age, there has never been a time when there are so many opportunities to get your personal branding just right – or horribly and very publicly wrong.

Maggie Eyre has been helping people navigate the treacherous terrain of managing the way the world perceives them since Mark Zuckerberg was a gleam in his mother’s eye.

In her new book, Being You, Maggie shows you how to communicate your business and increase your brand awareness, both face to face and on digital platforms, including a comprehensive social media strategy. It provides practical tips to reach your target audience and land your message, while sharing the secrets of some of the world’s biggest personal brands — from Oprah Winfrey to Roger Federer — on how they grew their audiences and achieved success.

It’s practical, authoritative, inspirational and illustrated with stories and case studies based on Maggie’s own international work and experience.

On Our Bookshelf

NATURAL FUN WADDLE

Book Reviews

By Lloyd Spencer-Davis (ED) RRP $29.99 Available from www.exislepublishing.com and wherever good books are sold

There is something about the shambolic ambling of the penguin that makes us humans smile. Seemingly upright caricatures of ourselves, stitched permanently into those awkward ‘dinner jackets’, it is easy to bond with these black and white ‘little people’. Endearingly comical, they are the perennial favourites of cartoonists and animators — so much so that it is almost impossible to look at a penguin without hearing the voice of Robin Williams in your head. We love them too for their reputation (among some breeds) of loyally taking a mate for life. Of course, penguins are more than just funny, they are extraordinary. The world’s only ‘100-degree birds’, penguins breed in environments from -60 degrees to +40 degrees. Waddle is a compilation of quotations, accompanied by gorgeous photography. Compiled by a leading penguin expert and gifted scientific communicator, this delightful book will put a grin on your face and warmth in your heart.

HISTORY CAPTURED LIVES

By Peter Monteath RRP $39.99 Available from www.booktopia.com.au

What was life really like for prisoners of war and civilian internees detained during the two world wars? Author and historian Peter Monteath provides a captivating visual look behind the barbed wire veil that was drawn around people deemed a threat to Australia’s security.

Civilians from enemy nations, even if born in Australia, were subjects of suspicion and locked away in internment camps. Many were longterm residents of Australia, had contributed economically and brought new skills and knowhow to the nation. For them, being interned was bewildering.

Captured Lives covers over 30 of the main internment and prisoner-of-war camps that were spread across Australia during the two world wars and includes over 40 text boxes that focus on particular events and various civilian internees, prisoners of war, officials and others.

FICTION THE SHINING WALL

By Melissa Ferguson RRP $29.99 Available from www.exislepublishing.com and wherever good books are sold

In a ruined world, where wealthy humans push health and longevity to extremes and surround themselves with a shining metalwall, privilege and security is predicated on the services of cloned Neandertals, and the exploitation of women in the shanty towns and wastelands beyond the fortress city. This is the frightening yet moving story of orphaned Alida and her younger sister Graycie, and their struggle for survival in the Demi-Settlements outside the wall.

When the sisters are forced to enter the City by very different means they risk being separated forever.

UNCONQUERED Our Wounded

by Denny Neave, Gordon Traill & Catherine McCullagh RRP $ 69.99 Available from www.bigskypublishing.com.au

The Sydney Invictus Games showcased the remarkable determination of our ‘unconquered’ wounded service men and women as they battled it out in the sporting arena. Prince Harry referred to ‘the healing power of sport’ as he watched competitors from 18 countries around the world represent the nation for which they’d fought. Yet many of the competitors compelling personal stories have yet to be told.

This book tells the remarkable true stories of Australian and New Zealand men and women who fought and conquered extraordinary challenges from the battlefield to the sporting arena. These veterans of the Army, Navy and Air Force served in campaigns from Somalia to Afghanistan, and share the scars of their service, both apparent and invisible. For these men and women, the Invictus Games provided a further challenge, a chance to test their mettle in the sporting arena and continue to represent their country. Through the power of sport, they have proven that they can overcome the mental and physical trauma inflicted by their service.

With profound stories of service, sacrifice and courage, Unconquered offers a deeply personal account of the trauma of armed conflict, the power of the individual to overcome fear, wounds both mental and physical, and the persistent determination to triumph in the face of adversity. For a review copy and background on the participants available for interview please contact me.

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Melbourne Cup Eve Dinner

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Music Legend Sir John Rowles OBE Exlusive to our Ambassador Travel Cup Eve Dinner

Melbourne’s Crown Casino will once again play host to Ambassador Travel’s exclusive Melbourne Cup Eve Dinner. You are invited to join us for a spectacular evening of fun which will be hosted well known racing personality Bryan Martin.

Your entertainment for the night will be provided by no other than legendary singer and entertainer Sir John Rowles OBE, which many of you will surely remember.

What better way to prepare for ‘The Race That Stops The Nation’ ™ than to attend this very special event in the company of fellow racing enthusiasts!

Famous for songs like “If I Only Had Time”, “Hush, Not a Word To Mary”, “The Pain Goes On Forever”, “One Day” and “M’lady” the Kiwi born entertainer has an impressive career, which has spanned more than five decades and has taken him from New Zealand to Australia to London as well as Las Vegas and Hawaii.

Your evening will include a delicious 3-course meal served with beverages and a plentiful supply of fun throughout the evening with sweeps, phantom calls, interviews with various racing personalities and live music by the very talented Dean & Curruthers.

We were very fortunate last year to have the 2018 Lexus Melbourne Cup on display at the dinner and many people took the once in a lifetime opportunity to have their photo taken with the iconic trophy and we hope to have it present once again this year.

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Date:

Monday 4 November 2019

Ambassador Travel Services

Venue:

The River Room at Crown Casino

Phone: (07) 3229 6555

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Email: peter@ambassadortravel.com.au

Cost:

$275 per person or $2,600 for a table of 10

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