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When travelling tent boxing troupes were a sure showground hit

Looking back on when travelling tent boxing troupes toured the show circuit

Newcastle Herald · Mar 22, 2024

Fred Brophy, Harry Paulsen and Australia's bizarre history of boxing-tent sideshows

A huge alligator owned by boxing tent promoter Fred Brophy's grandfather once sparked a peculiar mystery – but another tent-fighting maestro's mascot was even weirder.

ABC News · Oct 21, 2022

An evening with the last travelling boxing troupe in Australia

Fred Brophy’s show is a relic of a bygone era – before Netflix, a boxing match was a small town’s entertainment, write Michael E Miller and Michael Robinson Chavez

The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2022

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Birdsville Races return to outback Queensland after two-year COVID hiatus

Tiny Queensland frontier town of 115 swells to more than 3,000 as racegoers, bookies and caravaners make the long trek to attend Birdsville's famous horse racing event.

ABC News · Apr 11, 2022

Odds narrowing on Fred Brophy's longstanding wager as two Birdsville Races meetings slated for 2022

A history-making Birdsville Races sees record prize money up for grabs, and potentially the end of a lengthy marital wager.

ABC News · Feb 9, 2022

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