Did bookmakers, or those doing their bidding, get at Tulloch's jockey in the 1960 Melbourne Cup?

By Max Presnell
Updated October 27 2014 - 1:13pm, first published October 26 2014 - 6:17pm
Controversial performance: The 1960 Melbourne Cup runner Tulloch with trainer Tommy Smith. Photo: Baden Mullaney
Controversial performance: The 1960 Melbourne Cup runner Tulloch with trainer Tommy Smith. Photo: Baden Mullaney

Champion Tulloch rates high in the annals of Melbourne Cup scandals, triggered because winning prizemoney was a pittance compared with the pelf in bookmakers' bags. Did bookmakers, or those doing their bidding, get at Neville Sellwood, rider of Tulloch in the controversial 1960 chapter?

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