WHY ALL THIS BUSTLE.-- 'Tis the first furlong of the Exhibition Handicap and those riders who are not all bone and muscle--muscle from the shoulders down-- are securing good positions for their mounts. Wedding Eve appears to be up with the subsequent winner Kitty Paddington at this stage. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 60 wordsAFTER a self-imposed martyrdom extending over fourteen months the well-known hotelkeeper and horse owner, Jim McGuire has come back to the fold. At the completion of the Cup meeting in June 1927,James ...
Article : 207 wordsWHILE the majority of fielders operating on the Metropolitan Handicap at the Q.T.C. meeting on Wednesday had the towels out to try their tears when the numbers went up,. bookmaker Roy Bowerman wore a different facial expression. ...
Article : 219 wordsCalmest, if not the coolest, was certainly the one that collected in connection with the six furlongs Flying Handicap at the Q.T.C. meeting yesterday. THE Greenstead mare had set the ...
Article : 292 wordsLornstock, who has disappointed quite a lot of late, gave of his best in the hands of apprentice Tommy Snyders in the Nundah Handicap at the Q.T.C. meeting yesterday and spread- eagled a big field of good milers. ...
Article : 266 wordsAlthough Adams and Eve-- Wedding Eve--were the same happy combination in the Exhibition Handicap yesterday as were the pair who started the human race on the Eden Park course, they met a serpent, or rather a snag, in the Paddington mare, Kitty Paddington, who led them home a short length and upset a weighty plunge. The support accorded Wedding Eve made it appear as if her number was already hoisted above the judge's box. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 718 wordsMcNee is noted as a neddy that runs his best races out in front, but he exceeded the expectations of all but a few hard and fast followers when he was equal to leading all the way in the first division of the Welter Handicap at the Q.T.C meeting ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 301 wordsOf late Kenwick's connections kept peeling them off in large numbers and denominations and plonking 'cm on the Kenilworth gelding, and this suggested that they had been shown something in private. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 331 wordsAS a result of their inability to answer the roll call with sufficient regularity, jockeys H. Lappan and P. Foley have each ...
Article : 134 wordsHe'll walk in," was the cry to be beard,on all sides when Ted McCarthy, favorite for the mile Trial Handicap at the Q.T.C. meeting yesterday, was out eight lengths in front when half the journey had been covered. And sure enough he did ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 480 wordsSOULTON, winner of the Denman Plate at the Q.T.C. meeting yesterday, and High Syce, the discredited favorite for ...
Article : 130 wordsMudlarking ability on the part of horses trained on the Downs was the feature of Metrop. day meeting of the Q.T.C. Of the eight events on the program six of them were won by horses from that prolific breeding centre, and in practically ...
Article : 391 wordsAnd great was the fall thereof when the Queensland idol, High Syce, was toppled from his pedestal by an inglorious defeat in the Denman Plate of a mile, under weight for age conditions, at the Q.T.C. meeting yesterday. ...
Article : 362 wordsThose who tipped certain Brisbane sportsmen as "certainties" for positions on the new board of racing stewards were, ...
Article : 260 wordsWhat's the use of walking all the way across from the betting ring to the horse stalls at Kedron Park to observe the saddling of ...
Article : 260 wordsQUEENSLAND'S sporting Governor is a great admirer of High Syce, and yesterday his Excellency watched the race in which the Highfield colt met his Waterloo from the stewards stand. ...
Article : 113 wordsSOME of the riders in the earlier races at Eagle Farm yesterday were advancing as an alibi for the failures of their mounts to run up to expectations of their owners that there was a wet and sticky patch in the vicinity of ...
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 12 Aug 1928, Page 2
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