BECAUSE the gelding Hosier has only one eye he is not allowed to race in the Metropolitan area, but be made up for the exclusion by running away with the Newcastle Cup yesterday. HIS being minus one eye did not prevent him from filling the ...
Article : 335 wordsA two-year-old who brought tears of joy to the eyes of the fielders by winning a division of the Juvenile Handicap at Moorefield, and thus gave them a skinner. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsWho led all the way to win Saturday's Grandstand Handicap at Moorefield, and thus atoned for a few recent failures. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsApparently the western districts' crowd that own or control King Carlos are not in need of money. ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Valais tribe have become such a boom that there is a pardonable sag[?]ness to speck everything which has ...
Article : 134 wordsThere were three outstanding features at the Cup Meeting to-day. They were:—The help that Mooti got from Acrodorus and Sir Maitland, who politely ran off the course for him in the ...
Article : 78 wordsNO favorite having been success-ful up till the last race, there was tremendous cheering from the grandstand when ...
Article : 329 wordsMELBOURNE, Saturday Night. AS the three previous races had all gone to horses whose prices were what is known ...
Article : 337 wordsWHEN the starter at Moorefield on Saturday sent a field away while the hot favorite, Budtrim, was cavorting behind the line, he handed the public a bad black eye. Incidentally he came in for a good deal of adverse criticism. ...
Article : 466 wordsMR. A. W. THOMPSON'S Linacre filly, Peeka, must have been looked after by a wall-eyed celestial when she was a yearling, for she seems to he a sufferer from some hoodoo. Some horses are fated never to win ...
Article : 267 wordsWHEN the betting opened on the Sandown Purse. Stuart Mill was First Fancy, but a little later on, there was a rush to back Answer, who came down with a run from six to five and ran as well as the support accorded her indicated. ...
Article : 214 wordsPROBABLY no owner has been more unfortunate in recent years, in the buying of bloodstock, than Mr. A. P. Wade, but signs and portents favor the likelihood of his luck taking a turn for the better are long. ...
Article : 437 wordsParvenu is shown leading Murray River over an obstacle the first time around in Saturday's Hurdle Race at Moorefield. He made the whole of the pace to the last hurdle, but shifted about at the obstacle, and was beaten into third place. Murray River was a good fourth ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 48 wordsTHE public got it in the neck all round yesterday with two favorites left at the post, an odds on favorite beaten in the Hurdle Race, and to add to their troubles the ten to nine favorite Doris Lynn put up a very distressing performance in the ...
Article : 256 words"Are they backing Yandarlo at all ?" "Yes, there's quite a bit of money for him." ...
Article : 223 wordsALTHOUGH Miranton was sent out a screaming hot favorite for the Sandown Plate and was never further back than second or third until just a few strides from the post, he never looked a winner. ...
Article : 266 wordsTHOUGH Te Koko finished last in a division of the Moorefield Juvenile Handicap yesterday, that by no means gives a true representation of his galloping ability, as he no doubt will prove before long. ...
Article : 351 wordsIt is not often that there is such spirited betting on a Hurdle Race at one of the down-the-line course as occurred in conception with that at Sandown Park this afternoon, as no fewer than five of the runners were backed for good money. ...
Article : 415 wordsLITTLE interest attached to the Two-Year-Old Race, it being nothing more or less than a procession, seeing that Sir ...
Article : 214 wordsIF ever a horse made a mistake which cost her dearly, then Girton Girl did when she won a race at Randwick a month ...
Article : 173 wordsOne man in Newcastle had a big bookmaker on tenderhooks for several days before the Cup was run. A fortnight ago, immediately after the declaration of the weights, he took £1000 to £100 Hosier, who shortened to fours ...
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Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954), Sun 18 May 1924, Page 2
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