Meeting everything in the race with the exception of Seredale five pounds worse than in the Thousand, Fyrish Blue, by her easy win in the First Division at Albion Park yesterday, appears to have a stranglehold on the Thousand pound event, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 755 wordsIt is popularly accepted that if horses were to run up to form at all times, the bottom would fall out of the bookmaking, business, and there would not be a fielder with a shilling. Because they won't, and also because they are not always ...
Article : 304 wordsHorses of plebian parentage sometimes conceive strange notions. Racegoers will remember that harness horse which fancied himself a steeplechaser on Sires' Produce Stakes day of 1924 and changed the race into a calamity and jockey Pat O'Sullivan into a ...
Article : 263 wordsBut for some sixth sense possessed by the popular pilot, Mike Gibbons, the Stradbroke favorite, All Mag, might now have been browsing in those Elysian fields where neither spur does sting nor whip worry. ...
Article : 333 wordsBilly Hill had a feather bed ride on Speararm in the Third Division at Albion Park yesterday, for that 4 to 1 chance shot to the front at ...
Article : 206 wordsAlthough Fairy Bliss proved capable of coming from behind in a couple of races of shorter length and lessor importance the ...
Article : 215 wordsThe winning sequence of Fairy Bliss ended yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 12 wordsA Thousand candidate who is being taken quietly. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 10 wordsAlthough punters should by now have wakened to the fact that the easiest way to put their money in the pockets of the bookmakers is by going in off Red, they came at Albert Carr's' chestnut in the second spasm of the Fourth Division at ...
Article : 259 wordsIn giving Hydrant break enough to win a Melbourne Cup over the final three furlongs and beating him home by three lengths in the Fourth Division at Albion Park yesterday, Gold Mast put up a splendid finishing effort. ...
Article : 301 wordsCold Mast has been a long time coming, but with a long, strong run at the end of the first heat of the Fourth Division, she arrived yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 32 wordsKedron Park trainer J. F. Stone backed another loser when, per medium of the Magistrate's Court, he last week endeavored to extract from a Valley wine saloon proprietress. Mrs. M. A. Stanton, the "sum" of £65/12/, alleged to be due as a half share of the expenses incurred ...
Article : 201 wordsWith The Cooper meeting Gay Galah four lbs. worse in the Plate at Albion Park yesterday as compared with last week's race, backers were unable to separate them as evidenced by the market, but by the time the race was over they had separated themselves by sundry ...
Article : 273 wordsAbove one of the stalls at Albion Park yesterday was painted the one word, Despondent, and from the atmosphere in that locality ...
Article : 192 wordsWith two starters in the Third Division, trainer George Anderson had the natives guessing, more particularly as the support ...
Article : 175 wordsFickle as ever, those Albion Park patrons who had applauded the dead heat decisions of the judge were just as loud in their disapproval of the placing of Octo as winner ever Maggie's Dream in the Second Division yesterday. ...
Article : 196 wordsBecause some of them were of the opinion that they had a pull in certain quarters, and others considered themselves to be personages of considerable importance in the racing game, a number ef jockeys have been in the habit of ignoring the orders of the Q.T.C. committee regarding ...
Article : 480 wordsWhile some few Southern owners nibbled at the bait of increased prize money, for the Q.T.C. Cup meeting indication, are that most of them will fail to bite as withdrawals have already been numerous. The reason of such a lack of popularity of Brisbane meetings among ...
Article : 424 wordsOf the nine "Thousand" candidates contesting the First Division at Albion Park yesterday, Fyrish blue, carrying [?] more than her handicap for that event, did best, leading throughout. Following her home are Seredale, Gillipill, and Siege Lass. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 15 May 1927, Page 2
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