The 1960s saw the first man on the moon, the Beatles and the musicals my Fair Lady and the Sound of Music.
Thomas Sean Connery stared in the first James Bond Movie Dr No, winning at Baccarat and bringing down his first villain to threaten world peace. What a legend. Apart from anything else he was a punter who never lost and a cigarette smoker who survived to the age of ninety.
As Sylvia Trench famously and magnanimously said “I admire your luck Mr ????”, providing him with the entree to one of the famous lines in movie history.
In June 1965, 52,000 people made the trek to the then outer suburb of Springvale to go to the first meeting at the newly built Sandown. Named after a racecourse in England not much has changed since other than the value of the real estate that it sits on except a lot less people go the races there
It’s been a while since a really good horse ran at Sandown. Neither Winx nor Black Caviar chose to start there, and I am not sure if Makybe Diva did either. The horse who the main race is named after Zipping was a more then useful performer who apart from the four classics won an Australian Cup, a Turnbull stakes and was placed fourth in three Melbourne cups.
Few or no people at the races has been a bit of a thing at Sandown over recent years {or decades} so things won’t be really be that different on Saturday.
Perhaps you could celebrate at home on Saturday with a Chico Roll washed down with Spumante or Wynns Claret out of a flagon. After the races you could maybe stream a Bond double feature to complete the mid twentieth century experience.
I’ll be watching Thunderball and Goldfinger. Thanks for the memories, Sean.You gave us all something to dream about. For most of us reality turned up but during the 1960’s you made at least one little boy very happy.
Sandown
Race 3 Neighbourhood (8), Kemalpasa (2) Streets of Avalon (1) Order of Command (3) Blazejowski (5)
Race 5 Kenya (6) Junipal (3) Buffalo River (1) Iconoclasm (5) Haripour (4)
Race 8 Princess Jenni (8) Sound (4) Brimham Rocks (3) & Future Score (5) & Lord Belvedere (6)
Race 9 West Wind (10) Power Scheme (3) Pacodali (3) Goldfields (5) & So Si Bon (2)
Newcastle
Race 5 Super (13) Race 6 Perfect Radiance Race 7 Rainer (3)
Toby’s Titanic (Lay of the Day)
Race 8 Avilius
