There were 78,500 people at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day 1976. Those still living, hold indelible memories of their visit to the historic course on the day mother nature threw a tantrum.
Those who envisaged Gary Portelli celebrating Kimochi’s Randwick stakes win over a sumptuous dinner and a bottle of champagne, couldn’t have been more mistaken.
Had it not been for Louis Mihalyka’s fascination with thoroughbred line breeding, Australian racing would have been deprived of the touching scenes that followed Handle The Truth’s win in Saturday’s Kosciuszko.
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