. Wed like to have a look at the young horses. But somebody passed the word, and Press photographers arrived in shoals, knocking people out of the way and calling out to him. And life with Red Fred promised to be like drinking milk and water after a steady adherence to brandy and soda. We was mates in Queensland. The party were listening spellbound to a very large and confident young man who had just arrived from England. If I knew the winner ofonerace at each meeting Id never get up till ten oclock in the morning. She had never really grown up, in a racing sense. As fast as one place paid for itself he bought another. He had drawn a good position on the rails and for a furlong or so Iron Cross went to the lead, galloping within himself. I never rode him in Australia, said Bill the Gunner, and walked away leaving the trainer more puzzled than ever. Springing to the door of Crusaders box, Fitzroy threw it open and was relieved to find the horse apparently unharmed. How are you on fighting?, Not too good. Ive just sold a horse for ten thousand guineas., Sensation! But what with me wife shrieking the town down, and me dodgin charges of shot, Im full up. Discarding his automatic and donning his dress clothes he spent a most enjoyable evening. If youll give me the names and breeding of the horses Ill write them down and then you can say what you want for each one. lol. He seemed all legs and wings, but he had great arms and thighs and a set of cast steel legs. Dancing along in the battered old Ford the new employer gave his employee his life-history. The daughter is away, but Maggie will look after us, and we can have a talk and forget all about the stud ram. This was a task so far beyond Fitzroys arithmetic that he could hardly believe it. The door-keeper was asked whether he had admitted any strangers, and he said that the only stranger he had admitted was a great swell with a card from the Honourable somebody or other in the Guards Club. When Red Fred came to be paid, he presented his ticket without saying a word. As all horse-dealers know, the best way to make a man buy a horse is to tell him that you would sooner sell him one of the others. I dont know. Above a babel of shouts there arose a hoarse yell from the Chinaman: It passed his understanding that a civilian should come along and carry off his trainer at such a critical moment; but the starting-post was a long way down the track and he had no time to interfere. Thecognoscentivoted that the Australian horse looked lonely without a cart. Then just as he was debating whether to go straight home or look in at his club he caught sight of his hereditary foe, the immaculate Mr Noall. The food was very nice, so started that we were at down 30 mins after our booking which is fine but all staff just kept staring at us and everytime I tried to talk to them they walked away. Can anyone tell me (and them) when the name was changed? Give them a call they are always so helpful. Are you sure you want to delete this answer? But this one was obviously something out of the ordinary run of letters. The Secretarys clerk, a callow youth employed in a local stock and station agents office, dumped the bag under the table and went on with his work of elucidating the writing of the handicapper who had just issued the weights for the next race. Having passed this message on to the trooper, the sergeant then set to work to find out the whereabouts of Dear Boy Dickson, Spider Ryan and Monkey Brand; but beyond the fact that within the next few weeks each of them sported a new suit of clothes and a gold watch and chain, no clue was ever obtained as to the whereabouts of the missing racecourse money. Wasnt you that strong recruit that the sergeant took hold of to show us how to throw a man, and he couldnt throw you? Only different opinion this time is that the cauliflower and kale burger was a bit dry and lacklustre but everything else delicious. Thems the sort, he said, that the bushrangers used to take away when they stuck up a station. Theyre terribly crook some of these racin chaps., Dont you believe it, Fred. After a few generations his blood gets watered down until the strength goes out of it. Before Id see you let a blackfellow within a hundred miles of any of my horses, Id pick up that empty bottle and leave you stretched a corpse on the floor here in front of me. But the French specialize in stayers, for their racing is largely supported by Government subsidies given to encourage the breeding of horses tough enough to stand a military campaign. Altogether Mr Dickson appeared quite satisfied with himself when he put away his note-book and climbed up into the stand to see the race. When he got round to the ring he was hailed by the Chinaman who, like everybody else, had heard of his luck. He would have got enough names to fill his book, if Handkerchief Jones, who claimed to be the flashest man west of the Barcoo River, had not stepped in and taken charge of the proceedings. It had been a good season and there was plenty of money about; the only thing was how to get it. The others all dropped back, beaten, but still the big chestnut came on and seemed to be going better as the mare began to tire. He was strangled by his rider last time he ran. They almost resented the fact that the fifth racea mile and a quarterwas a moral certainty for the great four-year-old Sensation, winner of the Sydney and Melbourne Derbies and the Melbourne Cup. If Red Fred expected an argument on the point he did not get it, for the matter was settled in a couple of sentences. Financially, the days racing had been one of the greatest successes on record. Enjoy a three tier stand of finger sandwiches, cakes and scones with jam & clotted cream. His rider had a very faint hope that if he could dawdle along in front, and slow the others down, his horse might be left with a run at the finish. If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu. Me plenty savvy lacehorse. Well fix the Englishman first and him afterwards. He rubbed his nose against his owners waistcoat and the trainer called out: Rub him round the lips and the mouth, boss. Matters were not improved by a visit from Jimmy the Pat, who poked a blandly smiling face in under the bough shed and said that he would give Moira ten pong (ten pounds) for Iron Cross, which he described as welly goo oss, welly ni. This was rubbing it in with a vengeance and Fitzroy could hardly keep his hands off him, prize-fighter and all that he was. The boss has let other people order him about all his life, so that now if anybody stamps a foot at him he wants to run under the bed. Hatchet-man Tong all over world, longa London, longa Sanfrisco, longa Sydney. A Chow make a book? he said. According to the news from Australia this colt gave great promise and might sell for a fairly large sum of money. Tell em they can come and get their cheques, he said. Four to one on the field! A rat elbowed his way through the crowd and shrieked: You got fifteen of mine, Jim. Ill lay the double. So if you want to see life, nows your chance. Fred had been celebrating a bit, and when the loud speaker said I shall provide millions for irrigation, Fred said to it where are you going to get the money? The loud speaker went on about irrigation, and Fred said answer my question, wont you? The country is like a wheat feild now and the river is over its banks out for miles over the plain. Her Ladyship wrapped herself round him in a sort of grape-vine hug that was not so bad when one got used to it. By way of escaping public notice, he went inside the rails to Sensations stall and they mutually enjoyed themselves while he rubbed the chestnut horse about the mouth. Cheer up, Countess, he said, Ive known him a good many years. Staff were wonderful and very attentive. That was out in the sticks, said Miss Fyssheout in Australia where they time em with a kitchen clock. Hes a game un and a game un is hard to beat. Dont you know, man, that once a blackfellow breaks in a horse, the horse looks on all white men as his enemies? Ill cheer this horse over there and Id cheer an Irish horse here.. Thats right, aint it, Ramon? He had to be an authority on the purchase of clothes, pictures, furniture, saddlery or sheep-dip. The two last Internationals. Luckily there is a McDonalds up the road. These were reinforced by a few local animals trained on the stations, and some take-down horses owned by shearers who mixed the shearing of sheep with the more exciting task of shearing their fellow creatures. Four to one on the field.. Bet you a million if you want it., Oh, I know Jim Frazer all right. As they drove up to the homestead the sheep-dogs barked and a red-haired Amazon holding a decapitated fowl in one hand and a shingling tomahawklike a battle-axein the other, walked out into the yard. He waited down near the motor-cars and before long saw Mr Noall walking by himself across the lawn. He found things less strenuous than he expected. While the Lobster and his associates were predicting all sorts of disaster for the new venture, the International Racing Syndicate, as they called themselves, were exhibiting no end of showmanship. They never appeared. Meanwhile the French, American, and Australian horses had arrived almost unnoticed. Ill swear you did. Listen! Two thousand to two hundred! Fix Connies orse up an the moneys all right, but wot do I get out of it? Still, as Crusaders trainer said, a weight-for-age race is not like a handicap, and if the Frenchman had to make all his own running the English and Australian horses would have the last run at him and their greater stride and speed should be able to smother him at the finish. You have ten shillings on, eh?. He had vague thoughts of how easy it would be to grab a pile of notes, double up the doorkeeper and make for the great open spaces. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. I might have a bet on placing first and second., Daylightll run second to him, miss. Stone the crows! said the trainer, why, its Dear Boy Dickson! You can live with me and I mean to live pretty well, too. Fitzroy did not take very long to make up his mind. It is said that when an amateur wishes to hit a man on the chest, he aims at his chest, but a professional wishing to hit a man on the chest, aims at his backbone. Born of a farming family, he had run away from home to join a circus at the age of twelve, but the nauseous medicine given to circus boys to make their bones supple soon tired him of that business. To him this exposure was just an ordinary incident in life, another sprat thrown away without catching any mackerel. The little matters of a racecourse brawl and the flashing of a knife were not worth talking about, compared to the possibilities of breaking up the yellow mans criminal organization. You couldnt kid him even to pretend to fight unless he got something for it. Meanwhile, the two stayers were swinging the ground under them, galloping contentedly side by side, their jockeys watching every move of the horses in front. In front of the grandstand the plain stretched away to infinity; back of it the river spread out into a maze of reed-beds; and in the middle distance on the right was Barcoo River township itself: a public house, a store, a school, a police-station and a blacksmiths shop. Dont come to me to borrow money if you get broke. Crusader and Edouard, Crusader and Clean Sweep. Came for lunch with family and the food was superb and a special shout out to Jordan who gave fantastic service! As he walks out of the shop he says: Sam, a man must get some fun for his money somehow., This site is full of FREE ebooks - Project Gutenberg Australia. E gets me to do a bit of bettin for im on the sly, too, cos Connie has knocked im off bettin. Jimmy the Pat knew that if once his associates got to hear of the reward for his arrest, they would sell him out to the police or murder him for his share of the doping venture. Catch him plenty dog, plenty cat, blong you tucker, eh? Then having torn up the treaty, as it were, he went on You makeem book, eh? It is said that a horse can only be kept in supreme condition for about as long as a pear will keep at its best on a tree. So he drives up in his buggy and he sees me and he thinks Im the rouseabout! Holiday Inn Express Lichfield, An IHG Hotel. French hoaths, and all the like o that. Also, he was an aristocrat of his race, and the fact that Connie had become an English countess wasin his eyesjust one of those accidents that are liable to occur to anybody. - Leger Day Needless to say, Jimmy the Pat felt this programme was ideal in every way, but having three times the brain-power of the two American crooks he was careful not to appear too eager. When he has a win he wont put by a fiver of it. All the way back home in the car she wept bitterly, and when her servants told her that a man was waiting to see her, she was in two minds as to whether or not to send him away. Did you ever hear the like of that? he said. Had a great meal out. Tlee to one on er feah! But they must think theyve got something on him at last, for Ive got definite orders to arrest his mate and to keep him where Jimmy cant get at him. The loose-boxes occupied three sides of a quadrangle, with a neatly kept grass plot in the centre. Moira and Fitzroy each won sixty pounds and went into lunch bubbling with delight. For five or six generations the nose on that Jews face, and his nose for a bargain, will crop up in that family. His mate, Spider Ryan, had less originality and acted as a sort of chorus and backer-up to anything that Dear Boy said. Just to assert her importance, she relapsed into hysterics every two hours. A squatters dinner in the backblocks is apt to cover any range from a cold mutton chop eaten in shirt-sleeves to a five-course affair eaten in dinner-jackets. All the others followed, and the bewildered Tarpot Tommy saw the whole of the mongrel pack coming for him on the full run. Instinctively he put his hands up to protect his face and as he did so bang went the gun, and the charge whistled overhead. If a shed runs for two hours without somebody gettin chipped [faulted for bad shearing] they say twelve oclock and not a word said. And he was delighted to receive a short-notice invitation to dinner and a theatre party with Moira and her father that evening. B. Paterson Among them was a tight-lipped little man who had been at school with him and, after having floated companies, sold shares, and owned racehorses, had settled down into one of Londons bestknown racing commissioners. Our drinks were taking so long ontop of this, understandable when busy I worked in service so understand the pressure however the waiters/waitresses were just avoiding us. Making sure none were left, he turned round to wade ashore, and nearly sat down in the water with astonishment when he saw the whole five get up and fly away. From the depths of despair she had gone to the heights of hope in one bound. Just after the horses had come home from their exercise and the boys (who had been up since four oclock) had retired to their bunks to have a sleep, a Chinaman might have been observed making his way up Long Harrys deserted stable-yard. Even though the portions werent the largest, the food was lovely and the service was quick. These are my unworthy possessions in the way of horseflesh. more, You seem to have JavaScript disabled. The food was poor quality,I had the rotisserie chicken which was bland and didnt look appetising at all. We were then told our bottomless had ended just one hour and 15 into the 2 hour booking that you pay for! He told me: I been think it better I arrest them feller, but the Chinaman he pull out a revolver and he say, go back you black mongrel or we shoot you. So I said to him: What did you do then, Billy? I went back, said Billy. It ought to be a compliment., Why doesnt somebody arrest him? said Fitzroy, if hes half what you say he ought to be doing time!, Thats all very well, but whos going to give evidence against him? Deciding that half-measures were no good he said the most insulting thing that he could think of. During the fight Fitzroy stalked, lonely as Napoleon on the Rock at St Helena, through the back of the crowd. But do you think shes class enough?, Class enough? said the Gunner. But the fellow was so clever with his pen that he collected an army of fools to follow him., Any great horse is a freak, Delahunty said. Theres nothin like puttin your cards on the table, especially when youve got an ace up your sleeve. But he had committed thefaux pasof ordering one of his regiments to fire on their own advance party, which happened to consist of Canadian mounted infantry. Four to one on the field!. more, You seem to have JavaScript disabled. Here am I like Kiplings Roman Emperor, sitting by a river waiting for death, and youll be meeting princes and potentates and some of the best people in the world and some of the worst. What part does this Carstairs play? A whole bay with hard black legs, he threw true to the line of Bend Or, while the St Simon blood in his dam had given him an extra dash of quality. Without another word Fitzroy pulled out of his pocket a guaranteed bank cheque for a thousand pounds and beckoned the little commissioner over: Ive just made a bet with this gentleman. If you aint him youre a dead ring for him. You can tell all that to the magistrate. Like a lot of black gins round a sick dog. But the favourites early efforts told their tale and he was the first to crack up. I ave the names wrote down, an the date, and everythink. Of course theres no more harm in em than a couple of jellyfish. About forty-five years of age, standing quite six feet high, with prominent nose, freckled red face and red hair, his long gaunt arms and huge hands gave the lie to the silk shirt and the pants which, though ready-made, were obviously expensive. We must wait till the last day, cos theyll watch these hosses like they was diamonds the first two days. Thats what Ill (hiccup) on it, he said. The management of Sensation had been taken over by the syndicate under their written agreement, and the only connexion Red Fred had with the horse was to go out occasionally to see him work. All li. No dingo on the scent of a wallaby is keener than the commission man on the scent of a sale. She gloried in the notoriety of interviews with the police, and posed for the Press photographers with a rolling-pin in her hand. Now that those days had arrived they fell far short of the dreams. An theyd love itI dont thinkto have to go into the dirty water and through the mangle before that nasty sneerin Jockey Club lot. PS. Dressed in yellow silk and sitting in a particularly showy car came the great Chinese bookmaker, Jimmy the Pat, cigar in mouth, and lolling back against the yellow upholstery till, as a cynic observed, you couldnt tell there was anybody in the car. Sylvesters jockey, not wishing to knock a game horse about, dropped his hands in the last couple of strides and finished second, beaten a length and a half, which might have been three lengths had Snowfires rider so wished. You could pour it out on the counter and set fire to it with a match, and itd burn., The Irish whisky rose superior to all criticism in the matter of strength, but he complained that it left a taste in your mouth like after youve been working at a bush-fire.. . Look, Mr Carstairs, if this man was seen looking at a horse, everybody connected with the horse would get two years.. Among this lot there was one fellow with a trace of foxhound in his ancestry; throwing his tongue, he set off to investigate. Go and get on before they shorten it.. Whaffor you larp? for Jimmy, who could speak good English when he chose, always found it paid him to act the comic Chinaman at race-meetings. Would totally recommend this restaurant to anyone will be visiting again very soon, Bottomless brunch with a group for a birthday celebration. Ill post your cheque back from the next wharf, and if theres any fuss, Ill put old Manasses on to it. A sprinter that had saved up his energies for a final dash, made a run up to him at the distance but he only lasted there for a couple of strides. Before the loss was properly understood Dear Boy Dickson was wading knee-deep in sludge in the centre of the reed-beds and philosophically preparing himself to fight mosquitoes until eight oclock at night. As one of the johnnies put it: These chaps that back outsiders always have something wrong with them.. The day after the mares arrival he was discovered sitting by her feedbox, listening ecstatically to the sound of her jaws as she munched her food. Few horses would have stood it, but Sensation was one of the easy-going, contented type and had taken a great fancy to Bill the Gunner, who looked after him and rode him at his work. With a gun. So we formed a syndikit and bought a racecourse just a few miles out of town. Dont come at that game againbacking fifty-to-one shots. Came for lunch with family and the food was superb and a special shout out to Jordan who gave fantastic service! Several such characters hung round the gates of Newmarket Lodge trying vainly to get in and to give the horse some miraculous specific that would make him run a mile in a minute. When we asked regarding the rare one the waitress proceeded to put the plate down anyway infront of my friend and just went okay annd ignored what he said and then left the table didnt offer to take it back or even check!!!! He stares about him prepared to bolt for his life at any moment. But theres not many men will give you two hundred for two minutes work, you know., Not an earthly, unless these chaps know something. He was being trained in a shed at the back of a Chinamans garden up on the Diamantina, and there is no doubt that Jimmy the Pat put him there. With the snarl of a trapped dingo he reached inside his clothes with his uninjured arm and flashed out a knife. Hes the dead ring of that feller thats wanted for the murder of the half-caste down at Leila Springs. I am glad they have now found their market, as on my more recent visit, it was fully booked! This injudicious remark was made in a club where all communications are sacred. Only the plungers, and they never keep it. No feller could stand it. Come on, said Her Ladyship. They were to select the church and the parson, to buy presents for the bride and bridesmaids, to chose the place for the honeymoon, to engage the necessary accommodation and buy the railway tickets. We can make a horse beat a railroad train or we can make him lie down and go to sleep on the track. The envelope contained merely a dirty crumpled sheet of common note-paper on which the following message had been laboriously printed, apparently by some illiterate person: I beg to inform you that unless you get out of Australia you will die by the hand of a Chinaman. The boy on Sylvester hit him with the whip in the straight. Every moneyed fool that has gone into the game from the Marquis of Hastings down to the Jubilee Juggins has been obsessed with the same idea. As they rounded a corner the pony slipped, and its rider went flying over its head. I would definitely recommend booking, there is no way you would get a table otherwise. Most of em, I just ride up alongside em, slip the stirrup-iron out of the saddle as I jump off the horse, and I tell em that I want em. One never knew what Fitzroy might do. Did they all come up all right?, Pretty well, all. As they shouldered through the crowds he took a good look at Fitzroy and decided to unburden his spirit. He says the horses right name is Despair. And he had a look at meI weighed fifteen stoneand he says: Perhaps youre right. And he pays his money and walks out. Be prepared to arrest pickpocket on receipt further orders stop. So you see I cant do anything till I get a later wire. So now the bell rings for the Town Plate and out come the horses on the track. But a man cant go out with a shearer, especially when hes buying ones horses.. Nearer and nearer came the great day for the International Meeting and the trainers began to send their charges along in earnest. He backed the favourite with me, said a voice from across the table. And then theres the trainer. As the horse got safely back to the enclosure the genius wiped his brow and said: Well, I got em goin, didnt I? Moira was very dignified and distant in her conversations with Fitzroy, and devoted herself to enslaving the Honourable Captain Salter; while the Countess treated Fitzroy much as a child treats a puppy, rumpling his hair in public, planting his hat, and playing other music-hall tricks on himall with the idea of getting what she called a rise out of Moira. Service was slow/poor, maybe because we were Asian, just seemed like other customers were served quicker and were give better service. Thus is was hardly to be wondered at that when Red Fred was called upon to make the decision to go to England, and to trust himself to a sea he had never even seen, he felt a sort of blind urge to remain where he was. There were the shearers trying to look knowing and raffish, and the racecourse hangers-on trying to look simple and respectable. Turn round a bit, mister, so that we can get your face. When the Governors wife congratulated him on the ownership of such a beautiful horse he thought with horror of the fight ahead of him before he could get the horse away from Long Harry. When asked about the chances of Nancy Bell he said, shell lob in, with such inspired certainty in his voice that several people began to believe him. All the old tabbies on the ship will be at that table, and if I cut loose I might make some of em jump overboard.. Then he darted like a rabbit round the corner and jumped into a racing car that was cruising slowly along, with a veiled lady at the wheel. Then they went into a committee of ways and means, for things were really desperate with them. No use having money if you dont live to enjoy it. She was a peroxide blonde, with the face of a Roman emperor. I know a hold or two, thats all. She was a lovely girl and made sure we were always topped up . He wants to buy that horse of Mr Magees! There you are, said Red Fred. I bet you ten to one. Shell stand it.. If youre not there, itll be a shame what me and Monkey will do to you when we ketch you., Im aware of that, dear boy, Im aware of that. Well, Ill bet hes a fat un. I shudder to think what that colt will be like next year. I won two thousand off a bookie in Queensland. Whats your orse, short distance, long distance, or no distance?. Fouled, said the trooper, I should think he was. And it felt like old times when he realized that the music-hall they visited was the place where he had thrown the chucker-out down the stairs. Youll see some betting too, for the rats have got money now, and thats the time to see bettingwhen the rats have got it. Just as betting was about to start on the last race, Red Fred and Charley Stone bumped into Jim Frazer on the way down to his stand. We complained and the miserable waitress said the chef said sorry no free drink or discount to entice us back. 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