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The top Australian Racing tales is chock-a-block with the victories and tragedies of those impressive champions and plenty of extra. Insiders display attention-grabbing tales of the rags-to-riches lives of Tony Santic, Bart Cummings and T.J. Smith. a few of Australia's most interesting writers, similar to Banjo Paterson, C.J. Dennis and Les Carlyon, inform tall stories and real of the racing lifestyles from Australia's earliest colonial occasions to the current day. Nat Gould, Jim Haynes, Bruce Montgomerie, Crackers Keenan and so on percentage relocating thoughts, attractive yarns and laughs galore, making sure that the coat-tuggers, touts and urgers are by no means faraway from view and that the good characters of the music live to tell the tale.
Whether you're a racing tragic, a lover of horses or a two-bob, once-a-year punter, you are going to love this horseracing party that ripples with the entire laughter, romance, heartbreak and humanity of the game of kings.
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