A POCKET HANDKERCHIEF COULD HAVE COVERED THEM.—With muscles strained, and nostrils dilated, three horses turned for home in yesterday's Rosehill Flying within a few inches of each other. They are Chateau Tanunda (inside), Reference (centre), and Killarney (outside.) The other horse in the picture is Chris, while winner Magdaff is not in sight. He won from Killarney and Chris, after a thrilling finish. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 73 wordsTHE Maoriland trainer J. T. Jamieson has seen nothing but dark clouds since arriving in Sunny New South Wales. He came to this continent a few weeks ago with a team of three; and expected to clean up big with two of them, Le Choucas ...
Article : 235 wordsWILANJIE, does not like to earn the oats he loves so dearly. When he sported silk in a hurdle race at Randwick recently he refused point blank to go on with the business, and stopped altogether. ...
Article : 275 wordsFROM recent happenings, all a horse has to do to earn the disfavor of the crowd is to win the principal event at a suburban course. AT Moorefield on Saturday week last. ...
Article : 523 wordsTHOUGH the Magpie gelding Magdaff was considered harshly treated by Handicapper Tanner in yesterday's Flying Handicap he was sent out favorite and managed to squeeze home by the barest of margins from Killarney. ...
Article : 353 wordsBOUGHT at auction at the last Easter sales for 25 guineas, Coybeau, winner of the G.N. Hurdle Race at Flemington to-day, has proved a veritable gold-mine to his owner, Mr. T. M. Burke, the well-known land salesman, who also owns Bombard, favorite for the Grand National up till the time he hurt himself so badly in the Toolambool Hurdle Race at Caulfield that he had to be withdrawn. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,282 wordsNOW that Stan. Davidson is a full-fledged jockey he can ride just as well as he did when he was apprentice. ...
Article : 165 wordsSTIPE HIGGINS' engagement by an Indian Club as reported in English files which state that Mr. Higgins, with is resigning from the ...
Article : 205 wordsTHERE were hundreds of busy people at Rosehill yesterday, but perhaps the busiest of them all was Judge Dudley Smith. ...
Article : 163 wordsCHRIS and Chateau Tanunds were a couple of Flying Handicap runners quietly backed after the market had settled down and ...
Article : 147 wordsWINNING form at Menangle can generally be taken as a good guide to future events on metropolitan tracks, but in recent times, punters have found that it is more profitable to back the beaten lot at Menangle when they sport silk in better ...
Article : 270 wordsTHE vigorous-riding of Teddy Bartle, and the superb condition of Mak Siccar, enabled that gelding to push his way between Treefern and Le Choucas in the final few strides of yesterday's Carlingford Mile and gain the verdict by a ...
Article : 304 wordsTHE locally-trained Killarney went under by only half a head to favorite Magdaff in yesterday's Flying Handicap at Rosehill, and Billy Booth and his followers after the race looked like walking advertisements for an undertaker. ...
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Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954), Sun 3 Jul 1927, Page 2
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