| year |
Australian
sporting history on this day |
1908 |
Balmain
Rugby League club formed in Sydney |
1924 |
Charles
Brownlow, football player / administrator, died - known for
having the Brownlow Medal named in his honour. |
1942 |
Australian test cricketer Laurie
Mayne (6 tets 1965-1970), bowler, was born |
1954 |
Trevor Hohns, Australian test cricket player
- bowler, born |
1960 |
Greg Ritchie, test cricket player - batsman,
was born |
1965 |
Champion horse Tobin
Bronze won his first race at Cheltenham in Adelaide,
the Peter Pan Handicap over 5 furlongs. His
main wins were in the 1965 Victoria
Derby, 1967 Caulfield
Cup, 1966 and 1967 W. S. Cox
Plate, 1967 All-Aged Stakes, 1967 Toorak
Handicap and 1966 L.K.S. Mackinnon
Stakes. |
1982 |
Trainer Colin Hayes trained ten
winners in a day - seven at Victoria Park in Adelaide and three
at Caulfield to set a new record. |
| 1987 |
At Stony
Creek racecourse, Chester Field, Fast Seal and Mr
Spectre dead heated for first in the Carmichael Handicap. |
| 2006 |
Jockey Vlad Duric
rode 5 winners on the card at the Sale
racecourse |
