AFTER yesterday's racing prices on the Metrop varied considerably. Limerick was laid for thousands at 9 to 2, and in places 5 to 1. Murillo was second favorite at 6 and 6½ to 1, Bacchus 7 to 1, Pantheon 8 to 1, Donald 20 to 1, Star D'Or 25, Royal Sun 40, others 50 to 100 to 1. ...
Article : 168 wordsLIMERICK'S victory in the Spring Stakes wait exactly a runaway one, but it was quite, good enough to keep his at a short price for to-morrow's big event—the Metropolan Handicap. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 32 wordsTHE Queensland champion, Coin Nut, will be asked his first serious question in to-morrow's Squatters' Handicap. Prior to coming to Sydney Coin Nut developed splendid form, and proved himself a cut above any other distance horse in Queensland, and ...
Article : 168 wordsTHE prosperous and genial Queensland sportsman, Mr. Mick Ryan, was not giving any of his hard earned Queensland ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 127 wordsMr. Jack McMahon, the newly appointed A.J.C. Chairman of Stipendiary Stewards, was among the visitors at Randwick to-day. ...
Article : 117 wordsHeavy rain having fallen in the interval between the running of the Hurdle and the Stand Handicap, the ...
Article : 198 wordsWhen Maid of the Nook came into the ring as a yearling she did not attract much attention. She was light and small, and, in ...
Article : 153 wordsCLEVER artist that he is S. Davidson made two fatal blunders in the Derby. First of all he began chopping at the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 120 wordsIt ever a race was thrown in the air through over-confidence, amounting to flashness, it was the Trial Stakes, ...
Article : 203 words"WEE" Georgie Price is an unusual fellow. [?] not, he would have been weeping after being beaten by ha[?] neck in the Derby with Winalot. Hundreds of his friends came up with undertakers' faces on ...
Article : 169 wordsProbably the most popular will witnessed at Randwick for years was the victory of the Valais gelding, Vaals, in the Epsom Handicap. He is owned by Australia's prince of good sports, N[?]d Moss and, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,040 wordsSensations, near tragedy, and a remarkable finale were outstanding features of the thrilling Hurdle Race. No fewer than seven horses fell just before the field entered the straight, and, capping that catastrophe, two runners, Bungarley and ...
Article : 327 wordsHaving won both of the weight-for-age races that were decided earlier in the season, Royal Charter appeared to have the October Stakes at his mercy, yet there was plenty of two on offer about him from the start. ...
Article : 302 wordsIT is customary for a jockey to divert from a strict everyday vocabulary when he finds he has been thrown from a horse that could not win a race if it were to start the night before. But Jockey Conaghan, who rode Warbine in the Hurdle, will ...
Article : 143 wordsGEORGE carter, rider of Chandonia in the Hurdle Race, reckons that racehorse luck runs to a great deal more than piloting winners to the post. "Bungarley," he said, "forced Chandonia's hind quarters towards ...
Article : 128 wordsMore than a sprinkling of hard boiled racegoers, after witnessing Limerick's narrow victory over Pantheon in to-day's Spring Stakes, incline to the belief that the mighty New Zealander will, for the first time this season, have to strike his ...
Article : 499 wordsThe A.J.C. Derby proved the thrill expected, as the favorite, Winalot, and Trivalve singled out from the opposition with less than a furlong to go, and after a finish which had the multitude standing and cheering ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 581 wordsHalf a dozen Metrop candidates had a try at each other in the Spring Stakes to-day, and the Metrop favorite, Limerick, did not win by enough to make it any certainty that he will beat Pantheon on Monday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 299 wordsThe Wensum should have a wonderful chance in the Caulfield Guineas. This is so he proved beyond all shadow of ...
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 2 Oct 1927, Page 2
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