Good Losers Die Broke. A Lifetime Of Tales From The Track

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 292 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Melbourne Mick Bartley wasnt big noting when he described $6000 in 1976 as toilet paper. To call him a punter wasnt sufficient. Nobody played horses better in roles as a commission agent, SP bookmaker and master architect of betting coups. But the punt giveth and the punt taketh away...From copy boy at the Sydney Sun to his current weekly column for Fairfax, Max Presnell has lived, breathed and written about horse racing for more than 60 years.Good Losers Die Broke gives us his best, most colourful stories from a lifetimes observation of the turf. Starting with Maxs own unique upbringing at Kensingtons legendary Doncaster Hotel, where his father was publican, Good Losers Die Broke takes us on journey into the heart and soul of Australian racing. It brilliantly captures not only the famous racing names like Tommy Smith, Bart Cummings, and Gai Waterhouse, and legendary punters like Kerry Packer, but a marvellous parade of crook bookies, pimps, pickpockets, dopers, plonkers, lobbers and the downright disreputable.Written with Maxs trademark humour and encyclopaedic knowledge of the sport, Good Losers Die Broke is the distillation of more than six decades worth of racings greatest characters and stories.

ISBN: 9781760296421