A chance visit to a Broadmeadow racing meeting in Newcastle a few weeks back has saved a piece of local sporting history.
Music producer Phil Mahoney worked at the Broadmeadow track as an apprentice jockey in his younger years and later as a strapper and foreman in the 1960s. He had donated a copy of the March 1958 cover of the one-time Aussie sporting magazine Sports Novels which featured an illustration of then Sydney Apprentice Jockey of the Year Darryl Pritchard.
