"COLD DECK !" was the sinister suggestion heard to echo from the heart of the betting ring at Doomben yesterday as the leading horses passed the post in the Flying Handicap. However, bookmakers are known to operate their vocal chords from their pockets, and some of them are never short of a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 969 wordsIT'S a great feeling to be sitting pretty, your only worry not to let your prad win too easily! So it was with jockey' Jack Booshand at Doomben yesterday, when he landed Brinkburn a winner of the Waverly Handicap, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 675 wordsThat one about "horses for courses'' received a big boost when Colored Loch loped off with the first division of the Trial at ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 191 wordsThat a rails passage is an Open Sesame to success was once again demonstrated in the second division of the Trial at Doomben ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 389 wordsBACKERS at Doomben yesterday dug down deep into their jeans for investment on the daily double, as ...
Article : 103 wordsWhen Bert Phillips teamed up with Billy Hill to complete the combination for Arramlu in the Novice Handicap, ran down the straight ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 737 wordsWith the books winning all along the line at Doomben yesterday, it only needed a ronghie to bob his nose in front In the Welter, ...
Article : 335 wordsApprentice rider "Digger" McGrowdie being brought back to the enclosure by ambulance bearers after his fall on Buzzard Queen yesterday at Doomben. Fortunately. McGrowdie was not seriously injured and piloted Ribbleson later in the day. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 39 words"Well, you get a lot of knock- backs in his game," said the young jockey, Peter Morgan,, to his employer, Clive Morgan, when ...
Article : 125 wordsIT'D be safer to tell a father that his newborn baby looked I like Ben Turpin than it would be to decry the Royster colt,. One Star, in front of trainer Tim Hennessy. Ever since he was broken in, One Star has been the apple of Hennessy's ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 692 wordsIgnition might never set the Brisbane River on fire, nor develop into half as good a horse as his illustrious fellow boarder, Lough Neagh. ...
Article : 378 words'Tis rare that "Barney" King hasn't a profitable oat muncher under his roof, and whilst the palm goes to Brown Force and ...
Article : 289 words"THE stewards are of the opinion that Manresa might have done a little better if he had been ridden more vigorously at the finish of the Flying Handicap to-day." With these words, chief Q.T.C. stipe Archie Wilson ...
Article : 369 wordsPAGES 3, 4, and 5 for further reviews and reports of yesterdays racing in all States, and for Guide to ...
Article : 32 wordsWHEN the ambulance bearers at the Doomben meeting yesterday carried apprentice Nell McGrowdie from the van on the inside of the race track ...
Article : 65 wordsTHREE owners of horses racing at A Doomben yesterday were each fined £1 by the stewards for what the official report described as "dirty ...
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Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954), Sun 23 May 1937, Page 2
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