IF SOME BRISBANE TRAINER HAD ONLY bought himself a couple of ducks and trained em for a six furlong paddle, he might have landed four hundred and twenty quid yesterday, that being the prize the Q.T.C. offered for the Stradbroke Handicap, headline sprint event of the racing season in Brisbane. But, there being no ducks entered, the race went to the former Sydney racer, Sun Eagle, who revelled in the slushy going and landed the big stuff from Will Yet and Some Cure. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 164 wordsRacegoers saw a slick sort of n stepper out in the Welter Handicap yesterday, when Way land Debs went for the medico and ...
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 4 Jun 1933, Page 2
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