Those who have been coupling Prepense with Metropolitan candidates in doubles for the forthcoming Exhibition meeting at Eagle Farm will perhaps be less sanguine about the prospects of the Highfield gelding after his defeat in the First Division at Albion Park yesterday. Ever since Prepense accounted for a good field of youngsters in a two-year-old event at headouarters a few weeks ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 693 wordsUndaunted by the failure of Samphire in the Second Division at the previous meeting at Albion Park, his connections plonked it on him hard and heavy again yesterday, when, thanks to the number who were not nearly so anxious, the ...
Article : 303 wordsMany races have been thrown away by over-confident jockeys, but W. Cross, the rider of Dudley Persse, only threw away half of the first heat of the Third Division at Albion Park yesterday. Dudley Persse and Macanui ran a dead heat. ...
Article : 351 wordsHEARD at the Q.T.C. annual meeting: "We do not wish to be unduly pessimistic, but unless things improve the ...
Article : 290 wordsAfter an impassioned appeal by Mr. J. T. McGuire at the annual meeting of members of the Queensland Turf Club, a motion by Mr. J. F. Devoy that the sum of £250 be voted to the dependents of the late jockey, Arthur Davis, was carried. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 465 wordsPOINTED utterances at Q.T.C. annual meeting: "Mr. O'Mara and Mr. Ahern have spoken here to-day not as members of ...
Article : 310 words[?]AD the bookmakers at Albion Park yesterday only been in possession of a list of the nominations for the Steward Stakes, to be decided by the Q.T.C committee meeting tomorrow, they would probably have been [?]ble to do a ton of ...
Article : 155 wordsTRAINER Alan Fogarty, who had accounted for a double--minus one race, of which he was deprived on protest--with Bow Tie last week, endeavored to achieve better results with the Goard gelding, Arakara, yesterday. ...
Article : 174 wordsWith the two stable mates, Black Tic and High Treasure, figuring in the one heat of the Fourth Division at Albion Park ...
Article : 184 wordsAlthough backers were aiming badly with their first shot at the selection of the winner of the second spasm of the Fourth ...
Article : 171 wordsConsiderable controversy ensued regarding the best beginner of the bunch contesting the first edition of the Fourth Division ...
Article : 174 wordsAs the fourth divisioner, Lenui, had finished within a length and a half of Very Fair at the Q.T.C. meeting the ...
Article : 199 wordsJOHN jaunted off to New Zealand early last year. He thought the sea trip would blow the smell of tar and belly wool out of his whiskers, but the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 825 wordsThe acid was applied to the Wolowa gelding, Royalist, in the second heat of the Third Division at the Albion Park meeting yesterday, when, as favorite, he had to stage a game finishing effort to connect with the cash. ...
Article : 304 wordsBroadsound wins his races from end to end, but it has been so long since he figured in a winning role in Brisbane that his price in the Plate yesterday was 10 to 1 ON this occasion the Colugo colt wan ...
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 29 Jul 1928, Page 2
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