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.
Sam Clenton was conscious of a few butterflies as she drove from her Muswellbrook home to the Scone racecourse on March 18th. She was just a couple of hours away from her first race ride in two and a half years.
