Volume II: The Golden Years (1990) (continued)

We rediscover obscure characters – Arthur Clydesdale who conducted a pony racecourse; Mary Wentworth Dixon and Dorothy Sheil who, sixty years apart dared to stand up for the rights of women in a male sporting world.

We meet famous jockeys – Hales and Corrigan, Bullock, the Munro brothers, Bobbie Lewis, Dempsey, Pike and Duncan; the trainers – Scobie, Hickenbotham, Bradfield and Holt; the jumpers – Redleap, Daimio, Mosstrooper and Redditch; and a galaxy of our great horses – from Grand Flaneur and Malua to Ajax, Whittier, Peter Pan and Manfred.

We explore inventions such as the tote, starting barriers, radio broadcasts and newsreels, horse floats and 'electric chronometer'. We follow the long debate over racing and gambling in society.

It is Australian history in a new light. Mural and text combine to make a mosaic of history.