If you walk this path, you'll be taken on a journey to see the ghosts of cricket's past.
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Mount Hutton's John Ure tells Topics that it's called the Captains Walk.
We wrote on Saturday that Shortland MP Pat Conroy went into bat for NSW, saying it is the true home of Don Bradman, not South Australia, as a fellow MP had claimed.
Bradman grew up in Bowral, but was born in Cootamundra. Bradman's family moved to Bowral when he was two.
But this hasn't stopped Cootamundra claiming him as their own.
And why wouldn't they?
The house where Bradman was born is now a museum.
"It has lots of memorabilia as well as a copy of his original birth certificate," John said.
The Captains Walk is in a park near the house. It's lined with busts of Australian cricket captains and a life-sized statue of Bradman, sculpted by Carl Valerius.
Bill the Bastard
Speaking of Carl Valerius, he's known for creating a life-sized statue of Bill the Bastard - Australia's greatest war horse.
John Ure - a history buff - recently visited Carl in Harden, which is near Cootamundra.
The statue includes Bill's rider, Major Mick Shanahan, and four Australian infantry soldiers who Bill and Mick rescued under fire in Palestine.
"Bill - a big horse of 17 hands [apparently he weighed 730 kilograms] - was one of more than 8000 Australian horses assembled in Egypt for use by the Australian Light Horse in upcoming battles on the Gallipoli peninsula, Egypt and in Palestine," John Ure said.
"Also incidentally, Banjo Paterson was a vet on the troop ship that took Bill. He became a staunch advocate for Bill, when others dismissed the horse as being too unmanageable for active duty."
Because he was virtually unrideable, Bill was sent to Gallipoli as a pack horse. His size and stamina meant he was soon selected to do the mail run between command posts, with "his unfortunate mount hanging on for dear life".
"On one occasion, Bill completed most of the run unmounted after his rider was shot off by the Turkish snipers who constantly harassed the mail run," John said.
On his return to Egypt, Major Shanahan - an Australian bushie and a horse whisperer - tamed Bill and became his only mount.
In August 1916, during the Battle of Romani, Mick and Bill saved the four Tasmanian infantrymen from certain death.
They plunged into the thick of the battle to rescue them, with Mick "hauling two of them up behind him and the other two putting one boot in each stirrup while Bill rode two miles, with the weight of the five of them, to safety".
Bill didn't actually get the nickname of "the Bastard" until 1918. The Light Horsemen gave him the moniker as a mark of affection and respect.
At the end of the war, it was announced that none of the horses who had served so bravely in the Middle East would be returned to Australia, John said.
"Many of the Light Horsemen, who had served with their mounts for months or years, took them out into the desert and shot them rather than leaving them to fall into the hands of the locals.
"Bill and his 'girlfriend' Penny, a filly he had grown attached to, were spirited away to a village near Suvla Bay where a long and carefree life was negotiated with the local villagers."
Bill became a legend of World War I.
