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We are all so busy these days with smart phones The tenth Issue of Heartland and computers and we are time poor but, we should take time out and listen to the Magazine is underway and will elderly especially, we can learn from them. Another saying from Pa was "You can't start appearing throughout the move forward, unless you know where you've been". Pa was such an inspiration to Northern Rivers from mid me and hopefully the man I am today is the man he wanted me to be. October. We feel Heartland is When Sharon and I started Heartland, we wanted it to be a talking point, so the elderly getting better with each edition could reminisce and talk to each other about the content stories, elderly could talk and from your feedback you to the young about then and now. Now we see people in Cafes around towns not do too. 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He said “Interesting lot. However, I got over the shock and left them in the dip question.” yard for a week, giving them fresh Lucerne hay each day I replied, “I know of one – namely me.” and clean water. In the early 1950s the track was known as Carlton Park. Later, Mr Aub Pescud, Club President, purchased it and Dawn of a New Era. I spent hours with them while they were feeding to let them know that if I called them they should come to named it Pescud Park. The first and last race of the day was a trot. The late 1940s and early 1950s saw an American cattle be fed. Well, they did come when I called, but there was no way they would come if I had someone else company start its operations in Australia. King Ranch Back then the Lismore Cup was 2 days in May, The with me. They would hide behind trees and it wouldn’t Australia was to become a dominate player in reshaping Pescud Handicap was 6 furlongs and held on Wednesday the Australian beef industry with their new breed of cattle, matter if I put out ten bales of hay – they never showed and the Cup was 7 furlongs and held on Thursday. the Santa Gertrude. These soon started to take over up if I had company. whole herds of cattle stations in Queensland, West My father Tom and his 2 brothers; Barney and Ivan, had Australia and the Northern Territory. My tick inspector would open the gate and then hide in bred a horse called Bankers Best. Darcy Powell trained his shed while I would bring the heifers down; they went the horse at Disputed Plains. Thousands of shorthorn breeders, which were the through the dip and out the other end straight back into dominant breed at the time, were being crossed with the paddock. They only cost me on average $18 He had run a maiden two improvers races and was eligible for an easier race on his next two runs. He ran these big cherry red Santa bulls. I can remember as a kid delivered. second in the Pescud Handicap, ridden by Alby Roberts sitting around the radio listening to Smoky Dawson with I have never seen anything grow so big or so quick. and beaten by a Brisbane horse called Grifite. Darcy his stories about King Ranch and their Santa Gertrude and decided to run him the next day in the Cup. The only I tried to drench them but they wrecked the yards so cattle. It was the greatest sales pitch you would ever hear dry areas, but not jockey available at that weight was a young apprentice - and it worked. so great on the good country and pas- I thought anything that was as strong as they were John Clapham, from Casino. He won the cup, running tures of the Northern Rivers. However they are making a wouldn’t need drenching. No self respecting worm could against ten to one odds. They are being used with great effect by the Smith family big impact, so I guess that’s what matters most. keep up with these cattle. at Bonalbo and Woodenbong; crossing Santa Gertrude At his next start won the Orara Cup, in Grafton, one mile, bulls over straight bred Herefords to produce top weaners. When they reached two years of age, they were very again ridden by John Clapham. His next run was the Every year at the Casino Blue Ribbon weaner sales the A record price this year at Rockhampton was for a bull big and in top condition. Off they went to a special sale Grafton Cup, and he was ridden by a top country rider; Skeeter Kelly. I think the father of the present Grafton Smith family produce over one thousand head and they bred from Grafton. These cattle thrive at Nimbin and for that Barnes and Clark had on at Casino. They were all starter Rex Kelly. make top money; mostly being sold to repeat buyers each something to survive in that area and still pile the weight purchased by a company from Kempsey. year. on was quite a surprise for me – that was to make me Not long after that I sold the property at Nimbin and I got the day off school to watch him run, but he had a change my way of thinking on what they can do out there. tough run and was unplaced. The most well known Santa stud is owned by the Meyer purchased out at Dunoon, I haven’t been back to family and they breed top quality Santa cattle at Yulgilbar, It was about this time I purchased 240 acres behind Nimbin since. They can keep all the crofton weed and Back to LTC, around 1967 Prescot decided to close the which will have plenty of Santa bulls for upcoming sale Nimbin. Back then, there wasn’t a hippie anywhere at hills to themselves.