Manoora Racing Club Programme
1949-01-01/1960-12-31
South Australian Maritime Museum
Port Adelaide, Australia
Programme featuring a jockey saddled on a seahorse on the cover. Details Race Meeting held on the MV Manoora, a vessel owned by the Adelaide Steamship Company. Deckside 'horse races' were a popular entertainment where passengers competed against each other to wind in wooden horses attached to lines of string. The Manoora, like many of the company's coastal liners, offered a variety of shipboard entertainments including deck tennis, horse races, shuffleboard, and dances.
Programme featuring a jockey saddled on a seahorse on the cover. Details Race Meeting held on the MV Manoora, a vessel owned by the Adelaide Steamship Company. Deckside 'horse races' were a popular entertainment where passengers competed against each other to wind in wooden horses attached to lines of string. The Manoora, like many of the company's coastal liners, offered a variety of shipboard entertainments including deck tennis, horse races, shuffleboard, and dances.
- Title: Manoora Racing Club Programme
- Date Created: 1949-01-01/1960-12-31
- Provenance: Collection of Kevin How. "Manoora Racing Club" programme of meeting held on the Ozone Racecourse tide permitting. Humorous booklet (postcard size) 'taking off' a racing card of a meeting with 4 races - 1. Manoora Marathon & 4. Steamship Scamper. Each race has 4 horses, each with a funny name. On the inside back cover are the 'Manoora' Racing Club Conditions & Totalisator Rules such as 4 "The finishing post shall be as close as possible to the bar". Details of TMSV MANOORA are given - launched in 1934 in Glasgow by Lady Gowrie, entered Australian Coastal Services in 1935, served with R.A.N. 1939-1948.
- Subject Keywords: Sport, deck games
- Rights: No known copyright restrictions
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