The Resource Roy Higgins : Australia's favourite jockey, Patrick Bartley
Roy Higgins : Australia's favourite jockey, Patrick Bartley
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The item Roy Higgins : Australia's favourite jockey, Patrick Bartley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- Everyone loved Roy Higgins. A warm and genuine character with a great sense of humour, the boy from the bush was known as 'The Professor' for his freakish ability to read the track and his easy eloquence. He became a household name not just for his work in the saddle but as one of the first jockeys to embrace the media. Higgins' racing record was extraordinary. He rode Bart Cummings' first Melbourne Cup winner, Light Fingers, in 1965, and was one of a handful of jockeys to win the grand slam of racing: the Golden Slipper, Cox Plate, Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup. Over his 30-year career, Higgins clocked up 2312 wins, including 108 Group 1 races. All this, despite a never-ending battle with his weight. Roy Higgins died in March 2014, aged 75. His televised funeral took place in the mounting yard at Flemington, a fitting tribute to the humble man who had a profound effect on horseracing for more than five decades as jockey, commentator and teacher. This is a celebration of a great Australian, with racing royalty, friends and family sharing their stories and memories of Roy Higgins, the gentle trailblazer who touched their lives
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 307 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Includes index
- Isbn
- 9780143799726
- Label
- Roy Higgins : Australia's favourite jockey
- Title
- Roy Higgins
- Title remainder
- Australia's favourite jockey
- Statement of responsibility
- Patrick Bartley
- Title variation
- Roy Higgins
- Title variation remainder
- Australias favourite jockey
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Everyone loved Roy Higgins. A warm and genuine character with a great sense of humour, the boy from the bush was known as 'The Professor' for his freakish ability to read the track and his easy eloquence. He became a household name not just for his work in the saddle but as one of the first jockeys to embrace the media. Higgins' racing record was extraordinary. He rode Bart Cummings' first Melbourne Cup winner, Light Fingers, in 1965, and was one of a handful of jockeys to win the grand slam of racing: the Golden Slipper, Cox Plate, Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup. Over his 30-year career, Higgins clocked up 2312 wins, including 108 Group 1 races. All this, despite a never-ending battle with his weight. Roy Higgins died in March 2014, aged 75. His televised funeral took place in the mounting yard at Flemington, a fitting tribute to the humble man who had a profound effect on horseracing for more than five decades as jockey, commentator and teacher. This is a celebration of a great Australian, with racing royalty, friends and family sharing their stories and memories of Roy Higgins, the gentle trailblazer who touched their lives
- Biography type
- individual biography
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- 10641025
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- Bartley, Patrick
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Higgins, Roy
- Horse racing
- Jockeys
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- Australia's favourite jockey
- Label
- Roy Higgins : Australia's favourite jockey, Patrick Bartley
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Control code
- 000053189971
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 307 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780143799726
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- Label
- Roy Higgins : Australia's favourite jockey, Patrick Bartley
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Control code
- 000053189971
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 307 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780143799726
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
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