Ridiculous as it may seem, there are racegoers who are of the opinion that horse owners, trainers, jockeys, and bookmakers are one united happy family, whose sole aim in life is to conspire to cheat, chisel, or otherwise separate punters from the cash they carry to the various racecourses. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 550 wordsRidden from behind in yesterday's First Division, Baverlin had lengths to spare at the finish. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 16 wordsFairy Bob's young sister won her first race yesterday, the Fourth Division at Albion Park. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsRacegoers had it brought forcibly home to them in a couple of races yesterday that horses who will not see a certain distance out when ridden out in front are capable of coming from behind. ...
Article : 257 wordsIt has taken Fairy Bliss a long time to crack it, but in accounting for the Fourth Division at Albion Park yesterday this miss did the trick in a style suggestive of further successes, provided she is handled patiently. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 316 wordsWITH big meetings in the offing horseowners with designs on portion of the prize monies offering are advised to keep one eye on the calendar and another on the clock for the closing date for nominations is drawing nigh. ...
Article : 236 wordsGINGER" gave Monday's meeting at aristocratic Ascot a miss. Whether she had not sufficiently recovered from the bite she gave the gatekeeper, or whether the welcome she had not received on the first day had outraged her feelings is not known, but she was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,121 wordsWhile the big Chipilly gelding, Huntsman, has failed his backers on a couple of occasions at headquarters, the latest being on Monday last, he is remarkably consistent at Alb ion Park, and the Purse yesterday again fell to him. ...
Article : 224 wordsCarnival tima at Toowoomba is the season for practical jokes, but one that happened during the recent Show hasn't yet been put ...
Article : 157 wordsTrainer H. J. Kime produced two of the runners in the Fourth Division at Albien Park yesterday, when the forward showing of the ...
Article : 171 wordsYet another visitor in Glory Mat knocked the prop from under the fetish about "first up" at the Creek, as in the Second Division yesterday the Rockhampton representative won in good style and in good ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 336 wordsWhile the Rockhampton bookies baulked at losing any mora of their lucre over Locarno, and the filly had to be ^brought to Brisbane to be backed, the local lads are gradually getting back the bullion from which they were separated over the first up win of that filly. ...
Article : 277 wordsYou've all met him at some time or other. There are several of him. One is he who first ascertains the winners of a couple of ...
Article : 145 wordsPOPATOL once won by half a dozen lengths at Albion Park, and her subsequent work suggested she should be able to repent the performance ...
Article : 133 wordsLES SMITH will have to search for another jockey, as for the next three months he will be deprived of the services of the Southerner, F. Pratt, who fell foul of the stewards yesterday for taking a short cut under the neck of another runner in the Third Division. ...
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 24 Apr 1927, Page 2
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