Lady Jockeys single work   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 Lady Jockeys
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A reflection upon an early instance of women participating in the male-dominated field of horse-racing, when a Ladies' Race was held in the late 1880s on the occasion of the Governor's visit to the now non-existent town of Montalbion.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Campfire Tales Campfire Tales : an Anthology of True Stories of the Pioneering Days from Around the Campfire, Feature in the North Queensland Register Glenville Pike (editor), Mareeba : Pinevale Publications , 1981 Z1871794 1981 anthology prose Mareeba : Pinevale Publications , 1981 pg. 6-7
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Subjects:
  • Far North Queensland, Queensland,
  • Townsville, Townsville area, Marlborough - Mackay - Townsville area, Queensland,
  • ca. 1880
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