Lady Jane/The Good Sport Australian Story : Season 2 Episode 14

Lady Jane: Racehorse trainer Gai Waterhouse introduces the story of "Lady Jane" - Jane Slack Smith the twenty six year old girl from the bush who has become the first woman qualified to run an open cut coal mine in New South Wales. She earns $100,000 a year and when she's not in grubby overalls deep underground, she listens to Beethoven, owns a racehorse and does fund raising for the Royal Blind Society. The coalminers in the Hunter Valley dubbed her Lady Jane because of her flaming red hair and her posh private school background. Her parents, who breed thoroughbred ...