User talk:Johnanwin

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Jack Anwin / James Anwin
Hi Materialscientist,

I am Jack Anwin's grandson and in over 30 years researching my family history, I had never heard of Jack being referred to as James, until the entry in Wikipedia was brought to my attention recently.

There have been so many articles in the newspapers over the years, particularly around Melbourne Cup time, referring to Jack as the boy who rode Bravo to victory in the Melbourne Cup of 1889, that they are too numerous to list here.

The Sporting Globe ran a series of articles by Jack as told to J.M.Rohan in the 1940's, January 4 1941, is just one. AM paper of July 20 1954, ran a quite complete story on Jack. there are many "Melbourne Cup records" publications that refer to Jack and the Melbourne racing museum lists Jack as the jockey of Bravo who won the Cup in 1889. A check on Trove will give a multitude of references to Jack and his two bothers, Sam and George who were also jockeys.

Quite apart from all the racing references, Jack and his wife were a very social family and there were many references in the social pages, after Jack ceased riding and became a very successful trainer.

As Jack has been so widely shown as the jockey of Bravo, I would very much like to know where Wikipedia got James from in the first place.

Cheers,

Johnanwin (talk) 01:16, 6 October 2014 (UTC)