By Paul Kennedy
ISBN-10: 0733632386
ISBN-13: 9780733632389
Drama, glamour, scandal, luck - and intensely excessive stakes. the tale of Australia's most sensible identified horse racing kin has it all.
When it involves racing, the identify such a lot Australians go along with the racetrack is Waterhouse. this is often their compelling story.
High Stakes takes us from invoice Waterhouse's creation to the area as a sixteen-year-old, operating as a bookmaker for his father within the past due thirties - occurring to earn a living either off and on the music - to the headlines attributable to his involvement within the infamous tremendous Cotton affair within the eighties.
It examines his son Robbie's upward thrust as a revered bookie and a educated pass judgement on of horses, to his marvelous fall, because of that very same fantastic Cotton affair, which resulted in a lifestyles ban from involvement within the racing undefined. whereas the ban used to be lifted in 2001, he retains a low profile nowadays. As Kennedy unearths, an analogous can't be acknowledged of Robbie's spouse, Gai, daughter of the mythical horse coach TJ Smith. In a male-dominated global, she has long past directly to rival her father as one in every of Australia's top running shoes, education horses for a star-studded purchasers that has ranged from John Singleton to the Queen of England.
Yet as High Stakes exhibits, the scandal apart, the wedding among Gai and Robbie was once continuously going to be difficult. because the Sydney Morning Herald placed it: 'It's no longer that the Smiths and the Waterhouses have been inevitably the Capulets and the Montagues however the country's major coach and the world's greatest bookmaker have been infrequently average kinsfolk either.'
Despite an already vibrant heritage, while their son, Tom, stepped into the kinfolk company and have become one of many best-known and such a lot arguable bookies the rustic had ever noticeable, Kennedy describes how the dramas for the Waterhouse dynasty have been in simple terms simply beginning...
This is the booklet for someone who desires to understand the interior tale of up to date Australian horse racing, an international the place premiers and millionaires rub shoulders with gangsters and women with fancy hats. it is a international of ardour, motion - and intensely excessive stakes.
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