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  2. BIG BETS BUNKERED—BOOKIES' BANKS BOLSTERED

    NOT in years has so much money changed bands on a suburbas course as in the last race at Moorefield yesterday, the carlton Mile. CASH in lumps as lofty Kosciusko was brought from the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 759 words
  3. PLUTOCRATIC PUNTERS

    SYDNEY'S two most prominent punters arrived at Moorefield yesterday per limousine, and no doubt as they skirted picturesque Botany Bay on the way out they planned financial killing which was effected in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 429 words
  4. SID SAT STILL

    BARNEY GATELY wore smiles a yard wide after East Motong had run in the first spasm of yesterday's Juvenile Handicap at ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 245 words
  5. TINDALL'S TIN

    ONCE upon a time Moorefield used to be known as the Punters' Paradise. But backers thought yesterday that they'd been transferred to the infernal regions when each heat of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 343 words
  6. BURNT PINCERS

    RICHMOND PEER has been kept in smoke for a'long time, but those who backed him in the second division of yesterday's ...

    Article : 174 words
  7. NOT ALL BUNCE.

    The punter who is known to fame as "The Tiger of the Turf tore it off the books in handfuls with Arrowhead yesterday, but the win was not all ...

    Article : 52 words
  8. NO JOKE FOR BACKERS

    MOST punters didn't see anything to laugh at when Funny beat hot favorite Loud Praise in the Kogarah Stakes at Moorefield yesterday. HAVING had a win earlier in the day ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 446 words
  9. "Truth's " S.P. Quotations

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 129 words
  10. ROUGH RUN

    THE GRINDSTONE experienced an emery-paper run in the Carlton Mile at Moorefield yesterday. With better luck he might have ...

    Article : 206 words
  11. MARCIA MISSES

    PUNTERS who rushed in at the opening and accepted 5 to 2 about Bailey Payten's imported mare Marcia in the second division of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 210 words
  12. "Missed Zoo by Half a Head"

    JOCKEYS and bookies are notoriously bad tipsters, but debonaire young fielder Jack Shaw had the right oil when the gave Faultless some curry in the betting on yesterday's Moorefield Handicap. He stretched the price of Jack Scully's charge to 7/2 after he had ...

    Article : 165 words
  13. HOW TETRAWA WAS TOSSED

    GREAT is the uncertainty of racing. Tetrawa having beaten all but Malayan on Monday at Randwick. the first division of yesterday's Moorefield Juvenile Handicap looked an open misere for the Newcastle gelding. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 392 words
  14. MORE THE MERRIER

    "THE bigger the field the bigger the certainty," is an ageworn racecourse slogan, and it panned out all aces in yesterday's Moorefield Flying Handicap. THERE were 19 runners, and Magnetic, backed off the ...

    Article : 486 words
  15. BUST IN THE BAWBEES

    THERE was nothing Scottish about the way punters piled the bawbees on Glasgow for the first flit of yesterday's Maiden Handicap; but haggis won't be on menu at Eva Walker's establishment to-day. ...

    Article : 291 words
  16. Did Not Glisten

    BILL KELSO having won a race earlier in the afternoon, called it a day, and forgot to back his awn colt, Gleaner, in the second ...

    Article : 110 words
  17. Mighty Fallen

    PLENTY of owners who mare a place in the first race of the season for two-year-olds live to regret the fact. ...

    Article : 95 words
  18. EASY MONEY

    MECHANICAL' computers would be needed to estimate the margin by Which Maw Sweet would have Won yesterday's Moorefield Handicap ...

    Article : 160 words
  19. LAST IN FROWSY.

    It's a long way to bring a horse from England to Australia, and then see him run last in a collection of Maiden performers. That's what happened to Mr. ...

    Article : 43 words
  20. SOME SWEAT

    SPEARSHOT must be as full of nerves as a cocaine addict. A quiet tip for the first hest of yesterday's Maiden at Moorefield, ...

    Article : 211 words
  21. HAIRY GOATS

    TRAINERS must have ransacked the hairy goat department of Horsedom to provide the field for yesterday's Moorefield Handicap. FIVE noble brutes who have so far ...

    Article : 294 words
  22. A QUEEN ONE.

    Pollux, winner of the first beat of the Moorefiled Maiden yesterday, is practically imported, although the word (imp.) doesn't appear in his pedigree. ...

    Article : 52 words
  23. Mr. Douglass Knows His Groceries

    WHO wants Selfish ? According to groceryman Mr. W. C. Douglass, [?] have the importation was have important for the asking. Before the Moorefield meeting yesterday Mr. Douglass thought so much of the gelding that [?] a friend that if Selfish did not run decently he would backed ...

    Article : 60 words
  24. S.P. Escape

    THE starting-price 'books had a narrow escape when Pollux was beaten at Hawkesbury. There was no early money for him in the ring there: but the S.P. shops held a barrowful on him—so much so that a couple of hundred of ...

    Article : 114 words
  25. HIS SHARES FLOPPED.

    Roma Oil never looked like paying a dividend in yesterday's Flying at Moorefield, Jim Simpson had the kick on the Rossendale three year-old, and if ...

    Article : 65 words
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