McManus was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 21 February 1935. Mark was moved to Hillingdon, Uxbridge, in London when he was three years old until he moved again at the age of 16 to Australia where he performed in amateur theatre groups which led him to become a professional actor. He appeared in the popular children's TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, and made a guest appearance in the long-running Australian police drama Homicide. He also starred in Tim Burstall's unsuccessful but historically important feature film 2000 Weeks (1969), which was the first full-length Australian-produced feature made in Australia since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1954.
There they all were. The short-priced favourites ... And Cheltenham delivered that in spades ... He was one of the short-priced favourites that got the correct tactical set up and duly obliged for owner JP McManus, Mullins and jockey Mark Walsh ... .
Inothewayurthinkin, who had been supplemented for the race by owner JP McManus, was providing jockey Mark Walsh and trainer Gavin Cromwell with a first victory in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
21 hours ago ... However the Willie Mullins trained Fact to File in the JP McManus colours with Mark Walsh on board is likely to carry the favourites mantle into the two miles five furlongs examination around Prestbury Park ... .
It’s hard to look past DINOBLUE for Willie Mullins, JP McManus and Mark Walsh ... The question is how much better than a mark of 136 does KOPEK DE MEE need to be to win this race.
Consistent GericaultRoque has place claims, while Kyntara, runner-up in last season’s Pertemps Hurdle Final, can run a big race off a potentially lenient handicap mark ... well-handicapped off a mark of 150.
Cousins will join AFLW great Daisy Pearce, his former West Coast teammate Mark LeCras and ex-Fremantle skipper Shaun McManus on the broadcaster's calls of home games this season involving both WA clubs.
McManus-owned (and therefore likely Mark Walsh-ridden) Kopeck de Mee who is very much in the Saint Roi and State Man mould, albeit meeting the bare minimum under the new rules of having run five times over hurdles, all of them in France.