He won the Melbourne Cup at 14, then vanished. Who was Johnny Day? - Sydney Morning Herald

Robert Drewe’s latest novel Nimblefoot reimagines the extraordinary life of a champion pedestrian and winning jockey.

When I was a kid my grandfather Adelaide-German-Irish, and shrewd would take me with him to visit the fruit barrows in town, and there hed yarn with the men in leather aprons. I loved their talk pith… [+2565 chars]

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