Identifier: sharpsflatsgambl00luckuoft (find matches)
Title: Sharps, flats, gamblers, and racehorses
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Luckman, A. Dick
Subjects: Horse racing Journalists
Publisher: London G. Richards
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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at the time ; I backed him straight outand in doubles. Joe Thompson on the first evening Imet him asked me whether there was anything likelyamong the local horses to win the Hobart Cup andI told him what I thought about this Stockwell;he told me that he had heard about him too. Earlyjudgment over that colt has frequently been repeatedabout others since, not exactly an intuition, but thatcombined with sound appreciation. Later in theevening Joe said to me: The name of that horse isStockwell, isnt it ? He seemed peculiarly interested.He was in with a nice light-weight and it seemed a realgood thing for him, but the boy on him couldnt extendhim, and he was just pipped on the post by a marecalled the Marchioness. By the way, the owner ofthis one called nearly all his horses after charactersfrom Dickens. I had counted my chickens withregard to Stockwell, and it was a bitter blow, but,fortunately, I had taken a bet about the winner, sothings were not so bad, but that wretched riding was 62
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a.tr,;,,-,- llailey. \,-a>nark-et The latk Joe ThompsonThe Leviathan of Austiaha, and a bi<j man on llie English Rails TOM HALES THE CRACK perfectly tragic. It was so apparent that Stockwellimmediately became favourite for the LauncestonCup. They sent over to Melbourne for the starjockey at the time, Tom Hales, to ride him, and hetrotted in, and a full brother, then known as Bagot,but whose name was afterwards changed to Malua,won the chief two-year-old race. These two horses,with another I forget the name of, were owned by anex-Archdeacon of the Church, who afterwards was amember of the Executive Council; at that time hewas known as the Hon. Thomas Reibey. His threehorses were offered to Joe Thompson for a thousandpounds. It was a gift, but, through some extraordinarymood he was in when the offer was made, Thompson,who was not a haggler as a rule, tried to bargain andthe deal didnt come off. What he missed ! I triedto get a bit of money together to buy one of them, butthat didn

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