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.
I remember the night I met David Morrow as though it were yesterday. Unbelievably it was fifty years ago. I have no idea why I was at the Bathurst Leagues Club early on a hot Sunday evening, but thirst may have had something to do with it.