Odds and Ends with Gregor Mactaggart
The 2022 Melbourne Cup trophy is on display at Hopwood Gardens in Echuca today. There will be displays by Flash Fairlane, the great Southern 80 boat Sapphire and children's activities. Special guests include two-time Melbourne Cups winner John Letts and trainer Gwenda Johnstone. Ben interviewed Lettsy in Darwin in 2012. He was a sports reporter with the NT News in 2006. Greg Hall, who rode Subzero to victory in the 1992 Melbourne cups, was photographed with a knock-off of the trophy. It was printed on the front page of NT news. The photo was taken at the Noonamah Tavern.
Gregor Mactaggart is trying to remember who the two co-coaches are who guided Echuca Football Club to its first Goulburn Valley League senior premiership in 20 years.
Odds and Ends with Gregor Mactaggart is about a murder-mystery series set in New Zealand called The Brokenwood.
This week’s look at the Riverine Herald archives unearthed a list of shows on television stations in 1972. ABC”s fare saw Sesame Street at 4.30, The Cisco Kid at 6.00 and The Great Temptation at 7.50. BCV-8 in Bendigo featured Glen Campbell in Concert on Tuesday night, the $25,000 Great. T temptation on Wednesday night and Matlock Police on Thursday night. GMV 6 in Melbourne was the home of Columbo on a Tuesday and Number 96 on the Thursday.
Gregor Mactaggart is going to Adelaide this weekend to follow Alsvior. Gregor welcomes contributions to Odds and Ends. Gregors' favourite celebrities are: Max Verstappen, Fran Drescher, Kieran Culkin, Martina Hingis, Angie Dickinson, Monica Bellucci, Johnny Mathis and Johnny.
Echuca Football Netball Club won four Goulburn Valley League premierships on Sunday at Deakin Reserve.
Gregor Mactaggart is the editor of the Riverine Herald.
