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Pan Macmillan Australia (Ironbark imprint), Sydney, Published 1993. Paperback, 350 pp. plus plates; 21 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, including plate sections.
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In Good condition. Glossy green pictorial covers with bumping and creasing to edges and corners and mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages mildly toned. Otherwise unmarked.Biography of Tommy Smith (T.J. Smith), the champion Australian racehorse trainer, by investigative journalist Kevin Perkins. A rags-to-riches account of Smith's rise from rural New South Wales poverty to become one of the world's most successful trainers, covering his battles with the racing establishment and press barons Ezra Norton and Sir Frank Packer, the champions he developed, among them Tulloch, Redcraze, Gunsynd, Kingston Town, and Bounding Away, and the women in his life, including his wife Valerie and his daughter, trainer Gai Waterhouse.Contents: A Good Idea; A Man's World; Pound of Flesh; The Young SP Bookie; The Sawyer Days; Bragger; Playboy; Success v Conflict; Power of One; The Sykes Factor; The Case of the Red Umbrella; Old Joe's Dream; Glitter of the Sale Ring; Big Red; Little Joe and Ezra; When Strong Men Wept; The Yellow Line; The Club Holds Firm; The Lowest Point; Kentucky Calling; Thou Shalt Not Win; TJ's Girl; The Two Kings; TJ Crosses the Line; The TJ Dynasty; Tommy Smith's Group One Wins (to 1992).