Description |
1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in |
Series |
Storyline Australia (Television program)
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Summary |
The story of Australian women jockeys and their extraordinary battle to compete with men on the track, following one particular jockey, Bernadette Cooper, or Bernie as she calls herself. Today, 20 years after the breaking of the ban, the glacial progress of women jockeys means Bernie is one of a few women racing (and winning) on major Metropolitan tracks. Filmmaker Rachel Landers followed Bernie around the country to metropolitan and provincial tracks and finally to Melbourne for the Spring Carnival (and the biggest horseracing prize of all, the Melbourne Cup). The program takes the viewer into the seldom seen engine rooms of the races - jockey enclaves, Stewards inquiries, Barrier Trials and the back-breaking daily track work that starts at 4am with steaming, edgy, foul tempered horses pounding down the turf |
Notes |
Off-air recording of SBS-TV "Storyline Australia" broadcast April 1, 2004. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
Credits |
Written and directed by Rachel Landers ; Produced by Ian Iveson and Rachel Landers |
Notes |
Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
Subject |
Cooper, Bernadette
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Women jockeys
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Author |
Landers, Rachel
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Iveson, Ian
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SBS-TV
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