WORLD War two had ended four years earlier and the Great Depression a decade prior (both still etched in his memory) when 22-year-old Mount Gambier resident Col Gilmore went to his first Melbourne cup at Flemington.
That was way back in 1949 and Gilmore has not missed a Melbourne cup since.
And the 92-year-old has no intention of missing out on making it 70 Melbourne cups in a row when he heads to Melbourne on Monday.
What is more remarkable, Gilmore is not a racing fanatic, with the last local race meeting he attended
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