I’ll be dead and then they’ll go through my things, the weak son who never complained when I mocked him, the daughter who wished me dead I’m sure so she wouldn’t have to nurse me. I refuse to cut a spare set of keys. I refuse to risk their …

At the track with Brian Mayfield-Smith

Tanya Levin’s ‘People in Glass Houses’

Robert Hughes’s ‘Things I Didn’t Know’

A Te Aroha cowboy and his secret part in training the 1985 Melbourne Cup winner

It’s a very Australian thing to glorfy the rich, famous and dead. And yet Rene Rivkin was never really one of us, was he?