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Title

Dan O'Brien : the original owner of Carbine, Australasia's forgotten turf legend / Robert Wuchatsch.

Author

Wuchatsch, Robert, 1950-

Publication

Pirron Yallock, Vic. : Stony Rises Run, 2008.

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Description

xiv, 318 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps, ports.; 26 cm.

Summary

Dan O’Brien (1847-1916) was an Australasian turf legend during his lifetime. Born in pre-gold rush Melbourne to Irish immigrants and orphaned before he was 14, Dan O’Brien grew up among horses. From birth to seven years old, this renowned jockey, trainer, owner, breeder and publican, son of a drover, lived less than 100 metres from Kirk’s Bazaar, Melbourne’s famous horse market. At 14, he was working in racing stables and by the time he celebrated his twenty-first birthday, he was living in New Zealand and had ridden winners in Melbourne, Sydney and Christchurch. The most famous of Dan O’Brien’s horses was Carbine, purchased as a highly bred but unattractive yearling at Auckland in January 1887, for 620 guineas. As a two-year-old he was undefeated in five races in New Zealand. In September 1888, O’Brien shipped Carbine to Australia, where after winning two more races, he was sold for 3,000 guineas to Donald Wallace, for whom he went on to win a further 26 races, including the 1890 Melbourne Cup. In Dan O’Brien: the Original Owner of Carbine: Australasia’s Forgotten Turf Legend, Robert Wuchatsch restores Dan O’Brien and Carbine to their rightful places in Australasian turf history.

Subject

• O'Brien, Dan, 1847-1916
• Horse trainers > Australia > Biography
• Race horses > Australia
• Race horses > New Zealand
• Horse racing > Australia
• Horse racing > New Zealand

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

9780958915311 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2009286864

OCLC

318646482

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library