Horse songs - esp Melbourne Cup!

Subject: RE: Horse songs - esp Melbourne Cup!
From: nutty
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 11:55 AM

I know it as "Down the Road". A song that used to be sung superbly well by Fred Jordon.

Subject: RE: Horse songs - esp Melbourne Cup!
From: The Walrus
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 11:28 AM

I seem to recall a music hall piece I only have a snatch of it from a tape off the Radio many years back, with no details - it got taped over.
The subject appears to be road racing, the bit I recall runs:

Up the road,
away went Polly
with a step so jolly
That we knew she'd win
Off she went,
The pace was killin'
But the mare was willin'
For a lighting spin.

All the other 'orses there
was like they've ne'er been born
"Whoa there, whoa mare!
You've earned your little bit o'corn"

Anyone know it (or know of it)?

W

Subject: RE: Horse songs - esp Melbourne Cup!
From: nutty
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 08:32 AM

Heres a couple of broadsides from the Bodleian .........


The TrottingHorse

Racing Extaordinary

Subject: RE: Horse songs - esp Melbourne Cup!
From: GUEST,Robin Madge
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 08:02 AM

There's a nice one about the life of a racehorse and it's eventual demise, charting it's progress from the racetrack through use for hunting and ending up pulling a cart.
"The high mettled racer" on Graham & Eileen Pratt's "Magic Pear tree".
I seem to recall that they found the words on a pub wall somewhere and wrote a tune for it.

Subject: RE: Horse songs - esp Melbourne Cup!
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 07:51 AM

I have heard an excellent song about an Irish farmer who bets everything on a horse called Galway Bay and it wins.
Anyone else know it?
Keith.

Subject: RE: Horse songs - esp Melbourne Cup!
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 07:45 AM

for Stewball read variations like Skewball & Griselda

Subject: RE: Horse songs - esp Melbourne Cup!
From: Tam the man
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 07:33 AM

great, My sister Jean put a bet on it and won.

That's the 3rd time no bad for a horse.

Tam

Subject: RE: Horse songs - esp Melbourne Cup!
From: nutty
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 06:42 AM

rich-joy, You may be interested in this mudcat thread where I did some research on Creeping Jane through the racehorse bloodlines site.

CLICK HERE

Subject: RE: Horse songs - esp Melbourne Cup!
From: rich-joy
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 02:09 AM

" ... Makybe Diva, a seven-year-old English-born mare, became the first horse to win Australia's richest and most famous race, three times in a row ... in Tuesday's Melbourne Cup at Flemington.
Carrying a record 58kg for a mare, Makybe Diva, owned by South Australian tuna fisherman Tony Santic, was the favourite in the A$5.1m (US$3.8m) race over 3 200m.
Santic said it would be Makybe Diva's last race and that she would retire ...
... Makybe Diva was ridden by Glen Boss, who was aboard the horse on both previous Cup wins and also rode her to victory 10 days ago in the Cox Plate, a major pre-Melbourne Cup race ... "

" ... Phar Lap was a legendary Australian horse which won 36 of his 50 starts in four years of racing in the late 1920s and early 1930. He died as a six-year-old in 1932 under questionable circumstances ... "

BTW - Aussies still blame the Yanks for that :~)))


excerpted from : New 24 . com


so not only "let's hear it for the sheilas!" - but "let's hear it for the ones with a bit of extra weight too!!!!!!" LOL!

c'mon - she deserves a song!



Cheers! R-J

Subject: RE: Horse songs - esp Melbourne Cup!
From: mg
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 11:53 PM

Barbara sings a great one. Someone posted a wonderful one about the horses used in WWI I believe. Hobe Kytr of Astoria wrote a great song about the horse seining on the Columbia. Old gray mare...strawberry roan, old paint, Tennessee Stud... mg

Subject: Horse songs - esp Melbourne Cup!
From: rich-joy
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 11:24 PM

So Makybe Diva has done it again!

Let's hear it for The Girls!!!!

(i.e. just won the Melbourne Cup - yet again - down here in Oz!)

SO WHO IS WRITING THE SONG ABOUT HER????

She's well and truly earned her place up there with Pharlap now!

Time for some Horse Songs : starting with Creeping Jane / Stewball I guess ...



Cheers! R-J
(who's always been a bit afeared of them big animals :~))