The man who invented the Melbourne Cup – Sports Bizarre
From Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily
Published 10/30/2022
From Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily
Published 10/30/2022
Frederick Charles Standish left England in 1852 under a false name and fleeing moneylenders. Landing in Melbourne, he was forced to live on the goldfields and run a sly grog business. Yet, just six years later, he would be the colony's Chief Commissioner of police, be a pallbearer at Robert O’Hara…
