Robert Thompson: bush jockey returns to spring racing

By Konrad Marshall
Updated October 31 2014 - 3:13pm, first published 3:00pm
Veteran bush hoop Robert Thompson. Photo: Brendan Esposito
Veteran bush hoop Robert Thompson. Photo: Brendan Esposito

The old man and the orphan horse. It sounds a little like a fable, or a long lost Ernest Hemingway novella, but it is in fact a little known narrative set to play out at Flemington on Saturday.