With half a dozen prads in yesterday's Flying Handicap at Ascot engaged also in the Ascot Handicap, the big sprint at the Exhibition meeting next month, racegoers were looking for a little oil as to prospects in the Ascot—and little was oil they got. ...
Article : 791 wordsWhile barrier ponies certainly mean a lot at Albion Park, and count for much in sprint races at Ascot, the Bachelor's Persse ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 459 wordsWell, they certainly plonked some on Highcoe in betting on the Trial Handicap at Ascot yesterday. Though he was opposed by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 452 wordsAlthough it took jockey Micky Spencer a fair while to get back into the winning lists, after serving a month's suspension, he clicked in good style at last by piloting Maranerito to victory in the July Handicap, the principal event at the Q.T.C. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 598 wordsA telephone insulator that protruded from the rails between the Ascot racecourse was smashed in ...
Article : 204 wordsJockey Syd Bennett's finishing effort on the Magpie gelding, Brown Paddy, in the Flying Handicap at Ascot yesterday looked so ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 297 words"So this is what it feels like!" murmured apprentice jockey S. C. Hales, as he returned to scale on Forceona, after winning the first ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 33 wordsPUT the purse on Persse Cl[?] next try at a mid-weeker. He cou[?]d as much extra ground as a policeman's foot in his race in Wednesday, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 521 wordsIf concentration could do it, surely Miss S. Logan would have been picking the elusive winners at Ascot yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 9 wordsIn six years the Q.T.C.'s bill for prize money has dropped by £28,000. At the present rate of decline, by 1935 the prize money to be offered by the club will be only half the amount it was giving away in 1928. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsAfter a long trot of outs, the good-looking grey colt, Forceona, hit winning form again in the Novice Handicap at Ascot ...
Article : 216 wordsNorthern Rivers jockey, Jimmy Carmont, doesn't look like having any regrets about changing his place of residence to Brisbane, for ...
Article : 170 wordsIt's certainly been some week for prad polisher Alf Hodges. Prizes have been simply pouring in on him, and he landed a double at the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 62 wordsA SCOT was a graveyard of punters' hopes yesterday, and the bookmakers had a gala day at the expense of backers, not a solitary ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 181 wordsA change of name didn't do the two-yaar-old colt. Wide Bay, any harm, for since they changed his monniker from his original ...
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 22 Jul 1934, Page 2
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