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. A BUSH COUP j
£10,000 Win On
Wollun
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, best sprmtersof tw
«heW i" Saturday^ and netted 0 small fortune
or_ his connections.
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Yiollun was f^? 1 ?
experts from the tune the veiglits a
peared. He had started mon> tuo
hom rac« Mr^virtuKlv Pr?™" 5 >' in "> his *'JffL7 life, both of tnei
J l °r
at Amudale in the New Engtond di ;
W- but so keen were he «"nectioitt,
th, 5 „™" e r' 0 S " g
his galloping ability that they bacRea
him from 40 to ldw'^ and « was -HI-
W firsf tet tiken from one of Quec„5-
land's leviaUian fieldei-s was £4000 to
leiM." f lOO Woifun Wollun 7 s success must have taken;
£10.000 from tlie ring-a sum tliat wen.
almost whollv to the geldings immedia c
connections. -
Just as sensational ... betting . coup .
vas ,he race itself. The m.deet appret - : H
ticc. Hayes, broke a stirrup leather ha.f.C
furlong from the I nis;;. and yet, m a ! C
head and head battle Wollun downed
the crack Sydney three-year-old. Closing
Time, bv a short head
but
^ V w a ^ r ref'usrf 8 tT'.lff the
p]acjnRt.
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TUh PAlLMAKtK
closine Time led liie held unti. the
ias( furlong, when the weight befan tol
lei). and (Jic despised bush horse was
only one of a smart field letl with
sufficient pace to throw out a challenge.
In his two previous starts Wollun had
been left at the post in a Maiden Handicap.
and then he won tlie An, " ai ?' e .j
—, Cup somewhat luckily . according to me
critics, but there is - no — denying """'
that he is a galloper ol real class.
track wu.- >
jnjfjij* ^
side the Queensland record. He had.
been trained for the race —
property oropertv out
in the country where a'R
rough straight tiack had been laid down
to thoroughly ^t^Thta:
Time
test
made
him
a gallant hid for
victory vicwij umxci under his biR , weight, and . he.
must be a verj- hard horse to beat
the Suadbroke Handicap in which he I
meets most of the Queensland horses on
slightly better terms The ^ilurc of;
horses like Ripolot, Lady Lvndeu. W ill
Yet and Hourly can be explained byV
their being tied up by the soft going out.
in
the middle ol the track.
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