THERE are some weird horse trainers in Brisbane. There is the trainer of the tough kind, who, when he legs his jockeys up prior to a race, tells them he doesn't care a continental what they intend to do so long as they put him in it. ...
Article : 632 wordsRECENT happenings at Kedron Park racecourse bring to mind an incident when an eccentric owner failed to place his commission after planning it out with almost mathematical precision. ...
Article : 571 wordsWIVENHOE. A week ago this fellow gave the impression chat he had been juvenated, but he wasn't nearly as good a horse yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 25 wordsWIVENHOE, who had improved a more matter of 10 lengths between last week's meeting and the one proceding, proved to have ...
Article : 212 wordsLittle if any better behaved at the barrier, Anne of Cleeves gave a lot of trouble prior to the Second Division yesterday. She ...
Article : 216 wordsWhen Rose Marco won a hackrace at Warwick last September, she accomplished the trick in such taking style that several metropolitan sportsmen, who were present were desirous of purchasing the King Marco mare. ...
Article : 299 wordsLess than a year ago, entitled to an allowance as an apprentice who had not ridden three winners, Tommy Brennan the Kedron ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 139 wordsWith a lead of eight lengths, and only two furlongs of the Third Division remaining to be covered at the B.A.T.C. meeting yesterday, it looked as if Hay Dell could walk home and win. He did. There was very little money in ...
Article : 267 wordsPopular opinion had it that the Kedron Park Jockey, H. McFillen, could talk his way out of anything, for Mac is anything but ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 136 wordsSEVERAL trainers found their strings shortened after the Albion Park meeting last week-end, but the greatest surprise of the lot was the change of quarters for the Halberd gelding, Lord Berd. Lord Herd had started favourite with ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 255 wordsMary's Jem, the gelding, who wound himself up by bolting round the horizon at lest week's meeting, was a solidly backed ...
Article : 182 wordsUNDER explicit instructions Lilyburn was ridden behind in yesterday's Second Division, but although she raised the hopes ...
Article : 209 wordsPOPULAR opinion credits jockey Syd Bennett with possessing a bank roll of such dimensions that nothing less than a 30 x 3 1/2 motor tyre would be of any use as a rubber band. However, Bennett's balance is likely ...
Article : 217 wordsAlthough Jim McGuire had five fifties about The Moonlighter, who rung up No. 1 in the Fourth Division at Albion Park yesterday, the popular boniface isn't nearly square on his numerous investments on the Highfield gelding. ...
Article : 301 wordsRecognized as the smartest boy at the barrier that Brisbane has seen for years, Charlie Milford fell foul of the Kedron Park stewards on Monday last by his habit of jumping his mounts into the clear. Milford had agreed to purchase ...
Article : 174 wordsSamphire gave a lot of cheek in the Second Division at the B.A.T.C. meeting, but was unequal to participating in place money. ...
Article : 160 wordsJUST about a year ago Levento. running in the nominatic naf W. Bates, who and something of a breeze behind him, strung five wins on end in Brisbane. Although she has been un absentee ...
Article : 220 wordsFAILURE to steer a straight course after heading for home has cost Kings Mart many races, and yet another was added ...
Article : 111 wordsFollowing on the suggestion advanced by "Truth" last week, the officials of the Kedron park Club announced in the betting ring at Monday's meeting that the rider of a certain horse was to be changed. Our suggestion was that a notice board should be placed in the [?] ...
Article : 58 wordsAT one time consistency was the strong point of trainer Tom Wilson's stable. He would regularly no minate his horses, duly accept, and then withdraw them on the course. Now things have taken a change. ...
Article : 224 wordsFaydera, who had run third in last week's Plate at Albion Park, put up a much improved performance yesterday when she ran to the front three furlongs from home, and continuing the run was four lengths clear of the nearest of her pursuers at the peg. ...
Article : 224 wordsPolensis finished within a length of Polonium in the Goodwood Handicap at the Q.T.C. meeting on New Year's Day, but unfortunately for quite a number of those attended the B.A.T.C. meeting yesterday, she had been severely smitten with the slows in the interim. ...
Article : 89 wordsFinishing strongly to win a recent Fourth Division, Near Thing looked likely to pull off a Purse, but she his stood pat on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 29 wordsIt has taken Black Spear a long time to take out another ra[?] at Albion Park, but the "Thousand" winner did the trick yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 16 Jan 1927, Page 2
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