Peter moody horse trainer biography sample
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Peter Moody grew up on a farm near Wyandra, a speck near Charleville in western Queensland, population three men and a dog. I know this because, after writing his book with him, I drove through the place – dodging the kangaroos lying on the main street – and I heard the dog, wailing incessantly in some form of bleak predicament. It was the only noise in town.
Come to think of it, I didn’t see the three men. Didn’t see a soul, in fact, in this once-bustling village that in the mid-70s had eight streets and three pubs, a source of awful grief for the Moody clan, due to an alcoholic father who inevitably let the farm go.
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- Bib ID:
- 7294376
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Thomas, Helen, 1955-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
- Carlton, VIC : Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd., 2017
- ©2017
- 1 online resource : colour illustrations, colour portraits.
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 7.41MB
- ISBN:
- 9781925435283 (epub)
- Summary:
How many racehorse trainers are Australian household names? There's Bart, of course; the Master. And First Lady Gai. And then there's Moods Peter Moody. Respected news journalist, broadcaster and veteran racing writer Helen Thomas travelled far and wide to discover what drives Peter Moody.
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Moods: The Peter Moody Saga
About this eBook
The remarkable story of a champion Aussie horseman
In March 2016 Peter Moody, the man who took his ‘good mare’ Black Caviar to an unprecedented 25 straight victories, walked away from racing. Suspended for six months after he was funnen to have presented a horse on race day with an illegal level of cobalt in its system, the trainer made the drastic decision to close down his Caulfield stables altogether. How had it come to this?
In Moods, respected journalist Helen Thomas traces Moody’s extraordinary career, and shines a spotlight on the cobalt scandal that engulfed him. Through interviews with family, colleagues and friends, and with Peter Moody han själv , Thomas explores the horseman’s life and achievements: from his time with turf legend T.J. Smith to the day he first noticed the bay filly who grew up to become Black Caviar, and the inquiry that led him to quit the job he loves.
Articulate yet reticent, tough yet sens