PERCHED on the kitchen wall in Jimmy and Mai Murphy’s 1930s farmhouse is a wooden boomerang, brought back by their son Pat from his Australian travels. A fitting holiday souvenir.
Boomerang was foaled in 1966. A lifetime ago. Yet, his and Eddie Macken’s story is still widely known, not only by show jumping fans but the man on the street too.


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