Fact, Fiction and Fables of the Melbourne Cup
"Fact, Fiction and Fables of the Melbourne Cup" is a fun book that will
give you a better chance of picking the winner; and
enthrall, regale and entertain you with some wonderful stories
about our legendary Melbourne Cup.
Read about:
- How to use history to help select the winner.
- How to dream the winner.
- For 50c you get $500,000.
- Another fine (cotton) affair.
- The jockey who "rode" two horses in the Cup.
- The jockey who was weighed in unconscious.
- Who was the greatest horse?
- The best ever Aussie jockey.
- The milkman's horse who won the Cup.
Order a copy now!
More Fact, Fiction and Fables of the Melbourne Cup
Just when you have completed reading "Fact, Fiction and Fables ..." from
cover to cover and you think you're an expert on the Melbourne Cup, Max
Hitchins has written another Melbourne Cup book - appropriately
titled "More Fact, Fiction and Fables of the Melbourne Cup".
Read about:
- Rudyard Kipling's unflattering note to Banjo Paterson about our Cup
- More statistics to help you select the winner
- The Melbourne Cup winner who liked carrots
- $28 for a Cup starter
- The Cup winner bred by King Edward
- The cart horse from Taree who won the Cup
- The "good oil" from Heaven
- The 13yr old jockey who won the Cup
- How to run a calcutta
- It pays to go to Church
- Ten Clues to picking the winner
- ... and many, many more stories.
Also, a full list of place getters from 1861 to
1996 and space to keep your own records for future Melbourne Cups.
The book is out of print but max has several older copies available at the special price of $7.00 plus postage! Order your copy here!
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