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Download or read book Pumper written by Jim Cassidy and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Just what you'd expect from the master horseman they called Pumper: cheeky, funny, brash, unrepentant...a rollicking good read.' Les Carlyon Champion Jockey Jim Cassidy is the ultimate 'colourful racing identity'. In a stellar 38-year career, 'The Pumper' won 104 Group 1 races, including two Melbourne Cups - the first in 1983 on Kiwi, a $1000 farm horse, where Cassidy came from dead-last to win; the second a famous redemption ride on Might and Power in 1997. Brilliance in the saddle and bald-faced cheek in the press made Cassidy the Australian racetrack's most beloved and controversial character. His horse whispering gifts, gambler's charm and maverick wit always made him a favourite with the punters, trainers and journalists...but rarely officialdom. Cassidy's fast life and uncensored opinions led to his exile after the Jockey Tapes scandal in the '90s. Broke but never broken, he fought back. And even when he was back page and front page news, Cassidy's popularity never waned. As he'd quip in victory, 'Ring-a-ding-ding, Pumper's the king!' Honest, heartfelt and often hilarious, Pumper is Jim Cassidy's explosive autobiography - a page-turning thrill-ride through his many adventures on and off the track.

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Download or read book The Caulfield Cup written by Maurice Cavanough and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Caulfield Cup and the hundred year history of the Victoria Amateur Turf Club which stages this great sporting event. The author provides frequent highlights including: the transformation of the track from a snake infested swamp to a superb test of thoroughbreds; the sensational 1885 cup, when sixteen of the forty-one runners fell, miraculously only one jockey and one horse were killed; and Bernborough's 1946 Caulfield Cup run before an amazing crowd.