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stockman trainer writer horse-breaker
Marty Dodd was born July 30, 1921, in Todmorden Station, South Australia, Australia. He is the son of Tommy Tjundaga and Rosie Dodd. When Marty was only four or five he was forcibly removed from his family and sent to the Colebrook Home whether the family wants him.
Marty Dodd was educated at Colebrook Home, an institution for Australian Aboriginal children.
Marty Dodd was a stockman, horse-breaker, and racehorse trainer in the outback of South Australia from 1935 to 1975. It was in the days when Anangu - Aboriginal people - weren't even allowed to go in the races themselves. His boss found out Marty's horses weren't restless. They wouldn't run away from him, they were calm. So his boss got Dodd to break in all the horses. It turned out all right for Marty because he liked what he did and for all the horses as well. Marty Dodd won the Kingoonya and Oodnadatta Racehorse Cup.
Dodd worked many years in the fields, looking for opal as an opal gouger and opal checker, digging it out, checking behind the bulldozers, noodling on the dumps beginning from the 1940s till the mid-1970s, then full time, 1975-1999. Dodd also worked on Aboriginal cultural sites in the early 1980s-1990s and served as a chairperson at Umoona Aged Care, Inc., 1999-2000.
Marty Dodd is a writer of Aboriginal descent who worked as a stockman, horse-breaker, and racehorse trainer in the time when Anangu Aboriginal people were not allowed to go in the races themselves. He could train the horses to win.
Dodd is the author of an autobiography book They Liked Me, the Horses, Straightaway. The book is a story of resilience that needed to be told. Marty Dodd's experiences and philosophy make a worthwhile addition to the growing literature of Aboriginal autobiography.
Quotations:
"Not many people can win the Kingoonya and Oodnadatta Cups by getting the horses there walking two hundred miles each way like I did."
"The horses used to like me. Horses respond to kindness."
"The kids are part of you. I was a mother and a father."
"In my mind, everyone is free in the world. They can do what they want to do. That's why I never worried about anything much. I just take it in my stride. This is the way things are."
Marty Dodd likes animals, particularly horses. He was described as a kind man.
Quotes from others about the person
"As an Anangu child who was forcibly removed and as a parent who single-handedly parented seven children, Mr. Dodd fought the odds to become the winner of horse races and an even bigger winner in life." - Dr. Irene Watson.
"Marty Dodd is the kindest man who ever lived." - Ian Rankin.
Marty Dodd married Rita Lang, but she left him with all their seven children: Johnny, Glenys, Kevin, Rosemarie, Raelene, Robert, and Christopher. They have a house so they lived on Umoona, on the reserve, lived in a little humpy, or lived up on the hill, in the bushes, camping with the kids.
