Monthly Archives: July 2009

AUDIO: Sport 927 Prime Time Sports

Really enjoyed chatting with the two program hosts, Michael Christian and Angela Pippos. Michael is a former AFLer who played for Collingwood’s 1990 premiership team, and Angela knows all about the thrill of winning at the track, thanks to her share in that brilliant filly Permaiscuous.

Sport 927 Prime Time Sports with Michael Christian and Angela Pippos (5:52)

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PRINT: “Heart-Stopper When Ollie Won the Cup”

BY ADRIAN DUNN / MELBOURNE HERALD SUN
July 31, 2009

Few, if any, sporting moments have captured the hearts of a country more comprehensively than Damien Oliver winning the 2002 Melbourne Cup on Irish stayer Media Puzzle.

A week after his brother Jason died after a barrier-trial accident, Oliver produced his greatest ride, one he would dedicate to his late brother.

It was a triumph of many kinds. For Irish genius Dermot Weld, it was his second Melbourne Cup in nine years.

For Media Puzzle, it was overcoming a broken pelvis that had threatened his existence, let alone an emerging career.



EMAIL: The Irish Raider & Go And Go

This is a particularly gratifying note and a great way to break from the gate on this project. It comes from a great friend of mine and colleague from Rice University, the one and only Eric Alwan, whom I sent an advance copy of the manuscript.