Hardcover book made in 1947 to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1945. Carlton won their 8th VFL/AFL premiership in 1947, defeating Essendon by 1 points at the MCG. Bert Deacon also became Cartlon’s first Brownlow Medallist in 1947. Carlton 4.0 8.0 10.4 13.8 86 Sat 27-Sep-1947 2:50 PM Att: 85,793 Venue: M.C.G. Essendon 3.7 8.11 10.15 11.19 85 Carlton won by 1 pt Captain: Ern Henfry Coach: Percy Bentley Best and Fairest: Bert Deacon and Ern Henfry (Tied) Leading Goalkicker: Ken Baxter (42) Brownlow Medallist: Bert Deacon Blue hardcover book

Hardcover book made in 1948 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1948. Captain: Ern Henfry Coach: Percy Bentley Leading Goal-kicker: Ken Baxter and Ray Garby, each with 39 goals Best & Fairest: Jack HowellBlue hardcover book

Hardcover book made in 1950 to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1950. Captain: Ern Henfry Coach: Percy Bentley Leading Goal-kicker: Ken Baxter - 43 goals Best & Fairest: Arthur HodgsonBlue hardcover book

Hardcover book made in 1951 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1951. Coach: Percy Bentley Captain: Ern Henfry Vice Captain: Ken Hands Leading goal scorer: Keith Warburton - 48 goalsBlue hardcover book

Hardcover book made in 1952 to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1952. Coach: Percy Bentley Captains: Ern Henfry, Ken Hands Vice Captains: Ken Hands, Fred Davies Leading goal scorer: Jack Howell - 42 goalsBlue hardcover book

Hardcover book made in 1953 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1953. Coach: Percy Bentley Captain: Ken Hands Vice Captain: Jack Howell Leading goal scorer: Jack Spencer - 32 goalsBlue hardcover book

Hardcover book made in 1955 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1955. Captain: Ken Hands Coach: Percy Bentley Leading Goal-kicker: Noel O'Brien - 73 goals Best & Fairest: John James Blue hardcover book

Hardcover book made in 1956 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1956. Coach: Jim Francis Captain: Ken Hands Vice Captain: Laurie Kerr Leading goal scorer: Kevan Hamilton - 22 goals President: Sir Sir Kenneth LukeBlue hardcover book

Hardcover book made in 1957 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1957. Coach: Jim Francis Captain: Ken Hands Vice Captain: Laurie Kerr Leading goal scorer: Gerald Burke - 34 goals Blue hardcover book

Hardcover book made in 1958 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1958. Coach: Jim Francis Captain: Bruce Comben Vice Captain: Laurie Kerr Leading goal scorer: John Heathcote - 19 goalsBlue hardcover book

Hardcover book made in 1959 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1959. Coach: Ken Hands Captain: Bruce Comben Vice Captain: John Chick Leading goal scorer: Serge Silvagni - 40 goals Best and Fairest: John NichollsHardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1960 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1960. Coach: Ken Hands Captain: Bruce Comben Vice Captain: John Chick Leading goal scorer: Leo Brereton - 44 goals Best & Fairest: John JamesHardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1962 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1962. Carlton would finish as Runner-Up, defeated by Essendon in the 1962 Grand Final. Essendon 6.5 7.7 10.10 13.12 90 Sat 29-Sep-1962 2:50 PM Att: 98,385 Venue: M.C.G. Carlton 1.1 5.6 7.8 8.10 58 Essendon won by 32 pts Coach: Ken Hands Captain: Graham Donaldson Vice Captain: John Nicholls Leading Goal-kicker: Tom Carroll - 62 goals Best & Fairest: Serge Silvagni Hardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1963 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the season of 1963. Coach: Ken Hands Captain: John Nicholls Vice Captain: Serge Silvagni Leading goal scorer: Tom Carroll - 27 goals Best & Fairest: John Nicholls Hardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1980 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the home and away season of 1980. Captain: Mike Fitzpatrick Coach: Peter Jones Leading Goal-kicker: Wayne Johnston - 51 goals Best & Fairest: Bruce DoullHardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1984 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the home and away season of 1984. Captain: Wayne Johnston Coach: David Parkin Leading Goal-kicker: Warren Ralph - 55 goals Best & Fairest: Bruce Doull - 4th win after 1974, 1977 and 1980Hardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1985 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the home and away season of 1985. Captain: Wayne Johnston Coach: David Parkin Leading Goal-kicker: Mark Maclure - 48 goals Best & Fairest: Justin MaddenHardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1986 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the home and away season of 1986. Captain: Mark Maclure Coach: Robert Walls Leading Goal-kicker: Stephen Kernahan - 62 goals Best & Fairest: Craig Bradley and Wayne Johnston Hardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1987 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the home and away season of 1987. Carlton would win their 15th VFL/AFL premiership, defeating by 33 points in the 1987 Grand Final. Carlton 3.5 6.8 10.11 15.14 104 Sat 26-Sep-1987 2:50 PM Att: 92,754 Venue: M.C.G. Hawthorn 4.2 4.9 7.13 9.17 71 Carlton won by 33 pts Captain: Stephen Kernahan Coach: Robert Walls Leading Goal-kicker: Stephen Kernahan - 73 goals Best & Fairest: Stephen Kernahan Hardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1988 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the home and away season of 1988. Captain: Stephen Kernahan Coach: Robert Walls Leading Goal-kicker: Stephen Kernahan - 54 goals Best & Fairest: Craig Bradley Hardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1989 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the home and away season of 1989. Coach: Robert Walls / Alex Jesaulenko Captain: Stephen Kernahan Vice Captain: Justin Madden Leading Goal-kicker: Stephen Kernahan - 59 goalsHardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1990 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the home and away season of 1990. President: JD Elliott Treasurer: J Perriam General Manager: IS Collins Coach: Alex Jesaulenko Captain: Stephen Kernahan Vice-captain: Craig Bradley Deputy Vice-captain: David Rhys-Jones Best & Fairest: Stephen Silvagni Brownlow highest: Stephen Silvagni - (16 votes) Leading Goalkicker: Stephen Kernahan (69 goals) State of Origin representatives: S Silvagni, A Gleeson (Vic) S Da Rui (WA)Hardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1991 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the home and away season of 1991. Coach: David Parkin Captain: Stephen Kernahan Best & Fairest: Justin Madden Leading Goal-kicker: Stephen Kernahan - 46 goals Leading Brownlow Vote-getter: Peter Dean - 11 votesHardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1992 made to keep original copies of “The Football Record”. This book contains all Football Records relating to Carlton games for the home and away season of 1992. Coach: David Parkin Captain: Stephen Kernahan Best & Fairest: Stephen Kernahan Leading Goal-kicker: Stephen Kernahan - 83 goals Hardcover book, blue

Hardcover book made in 1997 ti keep original copies of all Souvenir and Special Edition Football Records published during the 1997 AFL season. Hardcover book, blue

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Gordon Rothacker died in 2010 at the age of 81. Harness Racing Victoria's (HRV) highest individual award, the Gordon Rothacker Medal, is named in his honour. Rothacker won a record 14 Melbourne drivers' premierships between 1949 and 1973 as well as capturing 10 Melbourne trainers' premierships between 1953 and 1976. He was the first reinsman to land 500 winners on Melbourne tracks, doing so at Moonee Valley in 1987 some 39 years after driving his first winner at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds as an 18-year-old in the inaugural season of night trotting. Awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday honours of 1972 for his services to trotting, Rothacker was the Caduceus Club's first living legend when inducted in 1995 and has also been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by HRV. He won numerous feature races with the likes of Angelique, Rhett, Gallagher and Raiarmagh Pool and also represented Australia in the second World Drivers' Championship in 1971 in the US and Canada.Red with blue Vrothacker, trotting, gallagher, angelique, showgrounds, premiership, rothacker medal, g rothacker, gordon rothacker, gw rothacker

John Phyland It was during 1890 to 1918 that John Phyland, son of Irish immigrants, born in 1866, ran a 2000-acre sheep station. The property, Lake Vale, was south of Balranald, towards the Murray River town of Swan Hill. This would seem to be an unlikely location for a harness racing breeding operation, being more than 400km from Melbourne, where harness racing was centred on the Richmond track. But, undeterred by distance, Phyland purchased his first trotter in 1882 and proceeded to acquire expensive, high quality standardbred mares and stallions and embark on a venture that saw him: • Breed and race winners of major races including The Melbourne Thousand, Bendigo JC Handicap (raced almost continuously on the grass track at Epsom, Bendigo, from 1867 to 1946), Boort Cup and numerous races at the Melbourne metropolitan tracks at Richmond and Ascot; • Acquire Soultline Villa and training stables adjacent to the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds so he could race at metropolitan tracks; • Develop a large self-contained training facility (including resident blacksmith) and home at 19 Raleigh St, Essendon; • Become the chair of the Victorian Trotting Horse Owners and Breeders’ Association, which lobbied strenuously for night trotting in the 1930s; • Breed from imported and locally bred mares that left families that are still active today. Heaven Rocks, the Ballarat Cup, New Zealand Jewels three and four-year-winner, and 1:49.6 ($554,529) export to the US, is six generations on from the Phyland bred mare Dusky Ribbons; • Saw the start of the training career of colourful and controversial Cedric (Ced) McLean, Phyland’s son-in-law, with a mare left when Phyland died.Blue with yellow starsbalranald, trotting, phyland, richmond trotting

KEVIN ‘BOOFA’ INNES By Lucy McCormick Kevin was a member of the celebrated Innes clan from Inglewood, in Central Victoria. “I think the first Innes’ came to Inglewood in 1851. My daughter used to say she can’t marry anyone from Inglewood, because she’s related to them all,” says Kevin. ‘Boofa’ is enjoying some well-earned relaxation on the couch after breaking a kneecap six or seven months ago in a track work incident. Not that it seems to be bothering him too much; he’s got plenty of time to keep up with the trots on television. “I do follow them,” Kevin says. “I don’t miss many, and I do have a bet. I like to sit in the chair and drive a race as much as anyone.” With an illustrious career both as a trainer and in the sulky, it’s a safe bet that Kevin Innes is a more than handy ‘grandstand driver’. His name is associated as a trainer/driver with many handy horses, including Lea Sands, Imatoff and Stormy Morn to name a few. Kevin is typically circumspect about his bigger triumphs, however that doesn’t seem to be what interests him the most. “I’ll tell you something,” he declares, doing just that, “I like winning with the horses that were no good. Some people never get a good horse. Imagine that. Luck is a very, very important thing. You have to have luck to buy a good horse at the sales, to get it going, keep it sound, find a race for it, find and owner and get a draw. And they still make a liar of you.” Funny, interesting or quirky stories seem to be of greater interest to Kevin, such as the time he had a strong chance in a standing start race – the favourite in the race being his only worry. “I told the owner it only had a 20-metre handicap – I couldn’t beat it off that,” he remembers. “So I was leading, waiting for the favourite to run past me. Toward the finish, I heard it coming, and it ran straight past all right – minus the driver. He’d fallen out of the cart and I won the race. Just lucky.” The Innes family have always been heavily involved in one sporting pursuit or another – Kevin himself being a champion bike rider of his time. “My Uncle Roy was a good bike rider, so he dared me to have a go. It turned out I was quite good at it as well.” So good, in fact that for many years Kevin was able to make a living from bike riding, riding the ‘board track’ for many years. “We trained hard. Bike riding was very big back then, we’d train and ride three or four times a week.” Kevin’s riding career spanned four Herald Sun Tours, a Warrnambool to Melbourne and a Sydney to Melbourne race, to name a few. “It definitely gets you in – it was long hours,” he muses. “But like anything, horse racing included, you only get back what you put in. We trained hard. I never drank, and I still don’t. I’ve seen that many athletes, great ones too, brought down by alcohol.” Lucky with injury too, Kevin can only remember a sore ankle – as well as the requisite scrapes and abrasions from tumbles on the wooden boards of the velodromes. He still enjoys watching all the big bike races when he can. “You can watch them race all over the world – France, Sweden, Germany. “To be honest I sit up and watch them with my son and we get just as much of a kick looking at the countryside than anything else. It’s so different to when I was racing.” Betting on the bike racing was big in Kevin’s day as well, and some of the bookies Kevin saw betting on the bike racing, he saw at the Showgrounds betting on the trots on a Friday or Saturday night. “Racing was different back then. There would be twelve thousand people at the showgrounds – they don’t have to come anymore, it’s just as easy to watch it on the TV.” Kevin remembers in those days that drivers had to ‘weigh in’ as well – everyone who drove needed to weigh ten stone (just under 65 kilograms). It’s something he remembers fondly. “I know not everyone will.” Kevin won’t be drawn on the subject of favourite drivers, either. “Look. Driving is different now. No disrespect to current drivers, but you had to think a lot more on a three furlong track than they do now on the bigger tracks. You had to drive with brains. And I really believe that good horses make good drivers. The horses are very good these days. Today’s drivers – your Gavin Langs, Chris Alfords – they’re thinkers, and brains will beat brawn every time. The girls are just as good now too. You only have to look at Kerryn Manning.” A garrulous and popular character, Kevin has trained horses for the likes of legendary Richmond player Jack Dyer, and also spent his fair share of time hosting sportsman’s nights, holding his own with the likes of Ron Barassi. On one such night, they had flown in a light aircraft to their destination. During their show, Kevin noticed their pilot, sitting in the front row, laughing appreciatively. There was one problem. He had a beer in his hand, and was consuming it with some enthusiasm. As the night wore on, the pilot became more and more inebriated, and Kevin became more and more disturbed, knowing that this was the same pilot who was to fly them home when they finished. Unbeknownst to Kevin, however, the flight had been cancelled and the pilot hadn’t told anyone, instead deciding to take full advantage of his client’s hospitality. For now, Kevin is happy living in Inglewood with partner Barbara. Son Grant and daughter Carla aren’t far away (both work at the Bendigo Harness track, and Carla has held both a trainer and driver’s licence). His granddaughter, Barclay Sands, was born on the same day of the demise of their star performer, Lea Sands, and may give the biggest hint yet just how important the world of harness racing is to Kevin ‘Boofa’ Innes. Blue with white yolkKevin Innes embroidered on left side chestkevin innes, k innes, bendigo harness racing club, bhrc, bendigo, horses, race colours, trotting, pacing, harness racing