While there are bookmakers who would not handle a dead 'un with a pair of fire tongs, there are others who lose sleep at nights thinking up schemes by which the public may be pooled. One in particular of the brethren of the bag registered in Brisbane is said to have more avenues of information than the C.I.B., and he is credited with being on the inside of almost everything that is ...
Article : 606 wordsAfter repeated failures when well backed at short prices, Wandana King surprised not a few by jumping out in front of the Fourth Division field at Albion Park meeting yesterday, and winning at his ease. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 384 wordsUnawed by the proved prowess of Happy Valley, the connections of Lilyland backed that horse in the Plate at Albion Park yesterday as if his number had already been hoist to the top of the semaphore. They still have their tickets. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 383 wordsHERB Barnes doesn't get too many rides on horses with a chance, yet Wivenhoe, who was quietly fancied by the stable for ...
Article : 126 wordsChippa Shoon is a horse for whom there has always been plenty of support forthcoming, and yesterday was another of the days ...
Article : 149 wordsDainty Jem ran a rattling good second in the Trial Handicap at the Q.T.C. meeting on Thursday, and many of the Albion Park ...
Article : 146 wordsA RACE not advertised on the programme created considerable interest at the Albion Park races yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 102 wordsWITH the form of Happy Valley as fully exposed as the garters of the average flapper, backers generally on the Plate at Albion Park yesterday were concerned only as to whether he had his mind on his business. ...
Article : 216 wordsFIVE seconds in as many consecutive starts in Purses at Albion Park, is the record of the Leverrier colt, Partenza. He has collected £300 in prize money by this sequence of placings, yet he cannot be said to have been profitable for his connections. ...
Article : 230 wordsBrown Apple, as if in vindication of the good word we had for him last week, stepped out in good style in the Two-years-old Handicap at the Q.T.C. meeting on Anniversary Day, when he was a really good thing beaten. ...
Article : 324 wordsBackers proved to be right on the spot when they finished up sending Siege Lass out favourite for the First Division at Albion Park yesterday. THERE was no mistaking the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 353 wordsCrashing the gate is a hobby with some racing enthusiasts. It is a necessity with others, at times. When the frown of fortune has resulted in a trot of outs and that state of financial stringency known as a touch of the ...
Article : 654 wordsA BRIEF RESPITE--Between races at Albion Park yesterday stipendiary steward Mr. E. J. Wright found time to indulge in a brief chat with trainer Les Jurd. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 31 wordsAlison K. had slipped home in front of her stable mate, Allombe, who had been favourite in a Fourth Division recently, but ...
Article : 112 wordsERNIE Bergstrom some time ago decided to take a spelt from race riding, and he only resumed his profession a fortnight ago. Now he will have to take another month off, as the stipendiary stewards suspended him for that period for interference in the Second ...
Article : 221 wordsReputed to be as fast as a streak of lubricated lightning, a newcomer from the Downs in Ki[?]ora [?] Monte, separated metropolitan ...
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 29 Jan 1928, Page 2
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