Life As I Know It

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2019
Edition: Reprint

Description: 252 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The extraordinary story of the first female jockey to win the Melbourne CupMichelle Payne rode into history as the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. She and her 100-to-1 local horse Prince of Penzance took the international racing world by surprise, but hers was no overnight success story. Michelle was first put on a horse aged four. At five years old her dream was to ride in the Melbourne Cup and win it. By seven she was doing track work. All of the ten Payne children learned to ride racehorses but Michelle has stayed the distance. She has ridden the miles, done the dawn training, fallen badly and each time got back on the horse. So when she declared that anyone who said women couldnt compete in the industry could get stuffed, the nation stood up and cheered.Michelle has the audacity to believe she can succeed against all the odds. Her story is about hope triumphing over adversity, and how resilience and character made a winner.

ISBN: 9780522876024