Long-time local bookie (bookmaker), Peter Carolan well remembers this day way back in September, 1976, at the Tomingley Picnic Races.
The event was a real highlight of the social calendar, at a time when horseracing was still called “the sport of kings”, and being seen in the Member’s Enclosure was a fashionable sign of status.
Peter recalls working the meet 47 years ago, at a time wh...
