With each succeeding win of the Lilyveil mare, Tigrinum, she has been proportionately penalised by the handicapper, but she has continued to improve beyond her extra weight with each run, and her hat trick ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 337 wordsExcuses had been found for both Memcraft and Actinic after their failures in the Duke of York Stakes and backers sorted them out as the two best bets in the Hendra Handicap yesterday. Actinic gained a place, ...
Article : 255 wordsAt Kedron Park she patronises the St. Leger reserve, but at aristocratic Ascot only the paddock is good enough for her. She is short and fat and ginger-haired, and she doesn't pay admission to either course. Neither does she possess a lady's ticket How she gets in is a mystery, but how she got out yesterday is well-known to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 801 wordsAlthough certain curative properties are claimed for Citric by the manufacturer!, "Toby" Charters' gelding of the same name gave a headache to a few of the sharpshooters at Ascot yesterday. ...
Article : 284 wordsWhen Light Exertion, odds on favorite for the Nursery Handicap was out in front at the five furlongs yesterday, and the reputed next best, Tea for Two, was third last at that stage, things looked rosy for the Tucker stable. ...
Article : 289 wordsLord Eiffel, who had made such a bold bid for the Duke of York Stakes, mads some amends by accounting for the Hendra ...
Article : 262 wordsAdmetus holds the Brisbane record for the number of different jockeys who have ridden him, but it only remains for Ajax to stand ...
Article : 235 wordsROYAL Dignity withdrawn from the welter event at the Q.T.C. meeting yesterday, took on the better class crowd in the ...
Article : 140 wordsTHREE of the contestants in the Totalisator Handicap at the Q.T.C. meeting yesterday had been companions in a gallop during the ...
Article : 130 wordsThat habit of jockey Davie in just winning whenever possible nearly spelt disaster to backers of Tea for Two in the Nursery Handicap yesterday, and only that the Highfield filly, like a good car, picks up quickly, the kidding tactics of her jockey might have brought ...
Article : 310 wordsRemembering the second by Chip Pewa in the Empire Handicap won by Rhymerls at the Duke's meeting, the display of the Chipilly gelding in the Novice Handicap yesterday came as something of a shock to those who had helped to keep him favorite in the betting. ...
Article : 222 wordsSatchel swingers at Rockhampton failed to wheel that colorful combination, White and Brown, but Brisbane's bookies succeeded in taking a fall out of them in the Heavyweight Handicap at the Q.T.C. meeting yesterday. ...
Article : 288 wordsAccording to inside information the fainting fit of jockey Charlie Milford after he had ridden the first two winners at the last Kedron Park meeting was a let off for the fielders, as there were, in the opinion of the jock, two other things just as good ...
Article : 483 wordsTwo sorrowful stories are to be related over the Handicap at the Strathpine meeting of Wednesday last. One is that the flooring boards failed to stand the strain of what was thought to be a well worked starting price commission over Kenilshot, ...
Article : 383 wordsAS the Albion Park patrons hurried from the course at the conclusion of the meeting last week end we heard one long lean and apparently very much annoyed partner telling himself all about it. "Strike me fat," he said. 'Last Race Davis' they call 'im, but it ...
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 17 Apr 1927, Page 2
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