Shear spent seven weeks in the hospital

  This was the first Holden to be made in Australia, a 1947 prototype for what is now referred to as the FX or ''Humpy Holden''. The vendor, Peter Briggs, was looking for a cool million, but in the end, auctioneer James Nicholls accepted a bid of $662,000 (IBP), which he believes is a world record for a Holden at auction.Briggs must have been reasonably happy with the result, as he picked up the Holden from a used-car yard in 1980.Harold Larwood's MCC sweater failed to find a buyer.Harold Larwood's MCC sweater failed to find a buyer.The National Museum might have been interested in it if it didn't already have something similar in its collection. Theirs is one of three even earlier prototypes built for testing in the United States.On October 27, Leonard Joel included a collection of thoroughbred-racing memorabilia in its classic furniture, objects and collectables sale. The feature was a set of faded purple, black and yellow silks believed to have been worn by Jack Purtell to win the 1954 Melbourne Cup on Rising Fast. That spring, Rising Fast won the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate Grand Slam, the only horse to do so.
 
   The Sydney Harbour Bridge is an icon, so any letters posted on the bridge on opening day - bearing the official postmark dated March 19, 1932 - are also desirable. Three envelopes carrying Harbour Bridge stamps sold for $7572 at the Phoenix Auctions sale on October 26. This was more than double the estimate of $3500.It might be a stretch to describe Geraldine Gee as an icon but she, her brother Gerry Gee, and their human partner Ron Blaskett were stars of early Melbourne TV and have since achieved a cult following.Then he heard the yelling, as someone screamed there was a horse loose on the grounds. Shear, who was 90 at the time, raced to clear the crowd away as the horse charged toward them, and at the last possible second, he noticed the girl. Shear threw himself between the horse and the 5-year-old as both of them took the impact of the collision. "I thought there was a possibility I was going to die, but you cannot stop and think should I or shouldn't I," Shear told ESPN's E:60. "There is a 5-year-old girl. I'm 90. I have had a life. She hasn't had a life. You got to safe that life.