And the crowd cheers:
A section of the huge crowd at the Flemington Racecourse for the 1943 Melbourne Cup. Australians could not be denied the thrill of racing even in wartime. Australian War Memorial photo.
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Walden - Henry David Thoreau
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