As a handicap proposition the Lilyveil gelding No Step is proving costly to his connections, as for the second time in as many starts he has been backed for a fortune and has left it in. A red hot favorite for the Shamrock Handicap at Ascot ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 388 wordsJim Barden apparently is a man who can profit by experience. Loquat won a division of the Highweight at Rosehill to-day, ...
Article : 265 wordsAlthough Plain Doone won. several seven furlong races at Kedron Park when, as R.D., he raced there a couple of years ...
Article : 266 wordsOne of the first things a jockey learns is to keep his mouth shut, and for the most part he is not given to shouting-secrets from the roof garden. Occasionally, however, one in a spirit of bravado empties ...
Article : 158 wordsOn returning to scale after being badly left at the post in the Albion Park Plate last week-end, the rider of British Born complained that the reason of his being left was that one of the clerks of the course held his mount too long. ...
Article : 184 wordsOne of the best worked coups brought to a successful conclusion on a metropolitan racecourse for some time was that by which the success of Andrewsia in the Emerald Handicap yesterday separated the ring from a big bundle of currency. ...
Article : 416 wordsSackers came a cropper over King Grist in the first division of the Trial Handicap at Ascot yesterday, when, after backing him from fours to 7 to 4, they saw him fail to get nearer than seventh at any stage, and eventually finish further back. ...
Article : 369 wordsApart from the fact that several of the best Queensland performers are seeking fresh laurels in Sydney, the forthcoming AUTUMN MEETING. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe little bird on Mary"s hat whispered quite a sorrowful story to us yesterday. A jockey who has been holding a horse for a ...
Article : 67 wordsThose cranks who picked on five as their lucky number to back at Ascot yesterday, had quite a large d[?], as horses drying that ...
Article : 44 wordsHoudini's showing in the first division of the Highweight Handicap at Rosehill to-day proves that he is not far from being at ...
Article : 303 wordsThe well-backed brigade all failed in the second division of the Trial at Ascot yesterday, when the 20 to 1 chance Side Show, who has never been noted for pertinacity, hung on gamely after disputing all the running, and von by half a length. ...
Article : 324 wordsTrainer A. G. Anderson had two strings to his bow in the Two-Year-Old Handicap at Ascot yesterday in Bereft, who won ...
Article : 287 wordsMeenah's win in the Rosehill Handicap to-day suggests that Spear felt won't have things all his own way in the A.J.C. St. Leger. The Bowman mare was well backed for the 10 furlongs event. She failed to find her feet as ...
Article : 254 wordsLady Seremond, who has improved considerably in appearance since a recent change of quarters, gave evidence of a return to form last week end by running a good second at Albion Park, yet backers preferred four "of the Novice field to her at ...
Article : 317 wordsAccording to the betting there were only two horses whose chances in the South Yarra Handicap were worth considering, but as it turned out, the public were wrong in their summing up of the situation, as neither, won. ...
Article : 369 wordsAlthough it is usual for Brisbane horse-owners to import jockeys from the South when "big" meetings are being held here they do not, as a rule, look beyond the Brisbane boys for riders in ordinary events. ...
Article : 403 wordsRight throughout his career Jackstaff has been a particularly useful sort of horse to have about the place, as in addition to being a crackajack hurdler he has enough pace to enable him to win on the flat over middle distances. ...
Article : 208 wordsQuite a number of Brisbane trainers conceived the idea that King's Dighton had run third in a race at Randwick, and when ...
Article : 80 wordsGlenlight, the step-brother to Ardglen, Gleburn, and Wee Glen gave a great display of cussedness prior to the Trial Handicap at ...
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 15 Mar 1925, Page 2
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