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  2. Joint-Un Tells the World Same Old Scream In the Jumpers' Race

    VALLIS made a debut as an A.R.C. performer in the Victoria Park Maiden yesterday, and she scrambled home half a neck to the good, after having been one of the leaders from the rising of the tapes ...

    Article : 317 words
  3. Donohue's Dandy Grey

    THE Champagne Stakes winner Linaway was tipped as having come right back to form and was well-backed in yesterday's Flying Handicap. Linaway was supposed to have got ...

    Article : 209 words
  4. Who Backed Peeka?

    THERE was as much mystery about Peeka's win at Canterbury yesterday as there is about the death of De Garis. SOMETHING went wrong, but nobody can put their finger on the spot where the error occurred. ...

    Article : 269 words
  5. TOFUA LASS' FORM

    A moke worth keeping in mind for a Maiden race in the near future is Tofua Lass, who finished fifth in the first division of ...

    Article : 135 words
  6. TRAUTY'S LOSING PUNTS

    One of the saddest men to leave the Victoria Park course yesterday, after the racing had been disposed of, was Mr. T. C. ...

    Article : 131 words
  7. IN AND OUTER

    FOR a short-priced favorite Darjeeling gave his supporters but an indifferent run in the Sandown Plate. ...

    Article : 148 words
  8. EASY FOR LADIES' DAY

    THOUGH Ladies' Day started a warm favorite at six to four in the second division of yesterday's Victoria Park ...

    Article : 258 words
  9. A Juggle With the Semaphore

    IN the early betting on the Encourage Stakes at Victoria Park yesterday the fielders offered nine to two and then five to one the field, but backers weren't having any and they waited a while until the tangle in regard to post positions, etc., had ...

    Article : 273 words
  10. New Zealand for Gallopers

    ANYTHING from New Zealand seems to be too good for the local neddies that infest the suburban tracks nowadays. IN yesterday's two-year-old race a little gelding called Hareira was well-backed. ...

    Article : 235 words
  11. PROCLAMATION

    1. WHEREAS for the past twenty years I have been the Main Guy and the Big Noise in Pony Racing, and have run it to suit myself and anybody eke can go and chew coke. ...

    Article : 334 words
  12. Unlucky Princess Mary

    LA CAREZZA has won three races in recent weeks, and the only thing her connections are sorry about is that they have not a few more like her in the stable, for they'd never have to feat the spectre of hunger then. ...

    Article : 306 words
  13. Not Having Any

    ONE of the sickest men at Canterbury yesterday was George Price, trainer of Tingle. ALL the home-fed punters were in on it and the brute first of all threw Pike in the straight and then stopped at the post. ...

    Article : 241 words
  14. A Race for Perhapsers

    THE Canterbury Handicap was full of perhaps horses—that is to say, nearly everyone would perhaps win if things ...

    Article : 237 words
  15. Smoke Bomb Proves a Dud

    IT is a long time since any horse was backed so confidently on down-the-line courses as was Smoke Bomb for the ...

    Article : 355 words
  16. THE WILL TO WIN

    THE disqualification handed out to Blackman and his connections has put the wind up the riders, and in yesterday's finish for the Jumpers' Flat Race the whips were flying so freely that it looked like a field of polo players swinging their mallets. ...

    Article : 184 words
  17. Trainer's Triumph

    THROUGHOUT the greater part of his career Flamberge has been known as a good galloper, but a cranky tempered brute who could not be depended on to do his best in a race. HE consequently has been a great disappointment, and after quite ...

    Article : 504 words
  18. BILLY McLACHLAN'S COUSIN

    THE apprentice rider Norman McLachlan writes to correct a statement which appeared in "Truth" that he is Billy ...

    Article : 194 words
  19. Bellows to Mend

    "THIS is just a certainty if she leaves the machine." THUS spake Paddy Hennessy in regard to Sally Eaton just before the Flying Handicap was run at Victoria Park yesterday. ...

    Article : 297 words
  20. Divisions for Duffers

    CONGRATULATIONS to the veteran Teddy Keys on having got a leg-in for the position of trainer when John "Baron" Brown makes his next shift. In a very, very bad field of milers ...

    Article : 197 words
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