There are sure to be free "Suns" and Christmas bonuses for the staff now. Habashon won to-day's Villiers Stakes for Sir Hugh Denison, and the newspaper magnate was so happy when he saw his gelding gather the field in a few yards from home, to sweep on to a half-length victory, that one had to look at him through smoked glasses. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 577 wordsIt seems useless to look further than Star God for the Summer Cup, as he beat to-day's Holiday Handicap winner at Warwick Farm over a mile and a half in convincing fashion, and the pair meet on identical terms in the mile and five ...
Article : 331 wordsBacked for a pot in the Villiers Stakes, Ruffler let his supporters down. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 15 wordsThe Williams' stable is wearing sack cloth and ashes. This drab drapery is hanging over every doorway in the homestead. ...
Article : 179 wordsActing on the "the bigger the field the bigger the certainty" principal punters went for two in the early betting on the first ...
Article : 281 wordsWonders will never cease! Adjudged the best two-year-old of this season's crop, Ned Moss's Limond colt, Veilmond, looked a paper certainty for to-day's December Nursery at Randwick. But he was as shaky in betting as Vesuvius at eruption time, and punters shunned him ...
Article : 497 wordsSmall though she is, Chaene tied the others up in knots in the Two-year-old, Handicap at Mentonne this afternoon. ...
Article : 237 wordsIt is wonderful what a difference a good rider makes on a horse. This was never better exemplified than by the case of Romany Rye. With the apprentice jockey Jack Turner up he has been ...
Article : 381 wordsAFTER a couple of months' absence, Darcy Eccles, one of the best-known of the Victorian owners and a decent punier when he fancies a prad, put in ...
Article : 95 wordsO. CALLMAN, rider of Red Blade, and A. Breasley, rider of Barratry, were both reprimanded by the stipendiary stewards for causing ...
Article : 96 wordsDono[?], who by h.s second in the A.J.C. Holiday Handicap yesterday considerably enhanced his prospects for the Summer Cup, in which he carries 7lb. less. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsLOOKING all the better for their recent spell Dark Man and Broken Doll are back at Eric Connolly's stables at ...
Article : 89 wordsWhen the A.J.C. put a jumping race for maidens on the Villiers Day program at least two owners bottled up a brace of ...
Article : 411 wordsHooray! Billy Booth has done it at last—kept a Randwick race after one of the opposition has entered a protest against him. Among charges of his that have finished first at headquarters only to have the prize pinched from them on objection, are Chantermerle, who lost the Summer Cup lo Poitrel, Volpi, who had to ...
Article : 420 wordsBecause Jimmie Munro apparently pinched the November Handicap on The Banker at the previous Randwick meeting the riders of John Buchan, Silver Cord, and Sunflare all seemed to be bitten with the lead-all-the way bug when the field hopped off for to-day's A.J.C. Holiday Handicap. They simply suicided, the three runners very effectively cutting each other's throat. ...
Article : 559 wordsLOU Robertson did the bookies a good turn when he started Isocrates [?] the[?] Mentone Plate to-day. The gelding was backed down from sevens to threes in a wonderfully good[?] betting race, and eventually only finished third; so that the Tommies got the [?] ...
Article : 130 wordsFRANK Dempsey, the rider of Lucky Card, the favorite for the Mentone Handicap, when-making his run between Quirk and Lianthony in the ...
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 22 Dec 1929, Page 3
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