The Way We Were XXXII Grace Fahey @ White Park 1993
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This was one of the final meetings at White Park. In 1994 the Scone Race Club moved its operations to the new course at Satur
The Way We Were XXXI Vice Regal White Park 1992
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The Australian Stock Horse Society was capable of attracting Vice Regal representation to Scone. Bill Haydon did the honours in 1992. I recall Quentin Bryce in 2010
The Way We Were XXX Aberdeen Slipper 1992
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The Aberdeen Jockey Club ‘folded’ in January 1971 following severe flooding of the Hunter River across the race track on Jefferson Park. During my term as President of the Scone Race Club (1978 – 1984) we revived the ‘Aberdeen Jockey Club’ as a sub-committee of the Scone Race Club. It was a great success; largely thanks to the commitment of SRC Vice-President and Aberdeen Local (”Kelvinside”) Hilton Cope.
Frank Wilson was an expatriate Kiwi and a ‘colourful racing identity’!
Scone Veterinary Protégés III
Featured Image: The ‘old’ Scone Race Course at White Park which would have been familiar to undergraduate veterinarian Margaret Rose when her father’s horse ‘Sky Sailor’ won at the Cup Meeting in both 1966 and 1967.
Professor Margaret Rose AM
Professor Margaret Rose has been honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for “significant service to animal welfare and the ethics of scientific research, and to veterinary science as an academic and clinician.” (Australia Day Honours 26th January 2018).
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A previous Governor of NSW the Earl of Belmore attended the arrival of the railway in 1871 exactly one hundred years before.
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