HEADQUARTER’S FEBRUARY MEETING DID NOT DRAW ANYTHING like a record attendance to the course, but in dull and hot weather, backers tried themselves out once again with the bookmakers. Fielders held their own in the opening events, but the success of the ...
Article : 88 wordsTHE W.A. TURF CLUB SEEM TO have a way of their own in dealing with the backbone of the sport— the racing public. ...
Article : 132 wordsAFTER WORKING OVER A MILE and three furlongs on Caulfield track on Saturday morning, Headom, who has been a ...
Article : 83 wordsT LOOKED AS IF PADDY CONNOLLY was going to get back some of the £600 he so generously gave to the Perth Hospital on Friday ...
Article : 444 wordsP. A. CONNOLLY SEEMS TO have a liking for the get of Chrysolaus. Although he slipped badly in the betting on Crystal Gazer ...
Article : 374 words“GOOD OLD KINGY!” CALLED OUT THE CROWD AS TOM TIGHE’S youthful apprentice brought Aplomb home a winner in the Encourage Handicap at Headquarter’s meeting. This was encouragement all right for ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 489 wordsAt present on a visit to the West, and in attendance at the Headquarters meeting this week-end was Harry Hall. Those who closely followed the ...
Article : 103 wordsLAST NIGHT’S TROTTING Meeting at Fremantle had to be postponed until to-morrow (Monday) evening. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 94 wordsALTHOUGH MR. SOL GREEN WAS ANXIOUS TO GIVE GOTHIC A RUN in the St. George’s Stakes as part of his preparation for important engagements ahead, in view of the state of the track due to heavy rain, he decided not to risk his champion, who was on the ground, but was ...
Article : 790 wordsLAND AND ESTATE AGENTS. MASTER BUTCHERS, WINE AND SPIRIT merchants and fruit market proprietors rubbed shoulder to shoulder at Ascot to try and fathom the winner of the big race of the day the February Handicap. They all had different fancies, but the judgment ...
Article : 406 wordsJIM COCKELL, WHO A FEW seasons ago, used to have a fair amount of luck on the Perth courses, has been out of form lately, ...
Article : 403 wordsYESTERDAY’S WARWICK HANDICAP GAVE THE EMBRYO, PIKES and Munro their big chance for.the horses had to be ridden by apprentices who had not won ten races. While the A.J.C. has to be commended for giving the youngsters their chance, ...
Article : 409 wordsIF ANY READERS SAW £450 TO £75 taken in one bet about Gloaman by the local leviathan punter in the Hopetoun Handicap at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 wordsIN THE PAST THE OAKLEIGH PLATE HAS BEEN A VERY UNLUCKY race for Sydney horses, and this year’s event proved no exception to the general rule. The favorite, Figure, who was brought over by big Jim Donohue especially to win this event, was rather unlucky to have ...
Article : 265 wordsANY PRECONCEIVED IDEAS BACKERS MAY HAVE HAD CONCERNING the Bond Cup were subject to revision when the race came on to-day, as the heavy thunderstorm and the rain which fell for half an hour before had made the going particularly heavy. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 239 wordsTHE HYDRONITE DOPING CASE, WHICH HAS ALREADY CREATED a first class sensation in turf circles, promises to unfold fresh thrill, when the authorities have a few words with Joe Brown, vanisher trainer. ...
Article : 282 wordsFlags flew at half-mast at the W.A. Turf Club’s meeting in respect of the sudden death of committeeman Alex. Watson, who was on a health visit to ...
Article : 51 wordsQUITE RECENTLY PRESIDENT JAMES BRENNAN OF THE W.A. Trotting Association, stated in the daily papers that the betting ring at the Perth trotting meetings was a sorry state of affairs, and that his committee might possibly consider the elimination of the bookmakers ...
Article : 501 wordsFollowing are the entries for the Easier Cup and Easter Handicap, to be decided on March 30 and April 1 respectively:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 199 wordsTHE WELL KNOWN BRILLIANT West Australian cyclist. Harold Smith, who recently went to Sydney to try his luck on the new ...
Article : 98 wordsTHE NINE MEN TO BE CONSIDERED for the Victorian crew for the King’s Cup race to be rowed on the Swan River early in May ...
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