A seven-event programme at Canning Park attracted a large crowd of racing enthusiasts this week-end, and the splendid weather was more acceptable to many of them than the results of some of the races. The battle still raged between the racing clubs and the S.P. men, and in restricting certain information from leaving the course, racegoers were not so well served as regards their racing particulars. Jockey A. Read, who recently returned from India, finished up on two winners in Sir Gravity ...
Article : 188 words[?] Wallace Forteviot defeating Limoka in the Canning Park Handicap by a [?]ength and a half. On Monday’s form many racegoers 'won[?] how [?]Wallace Forteviot could improve so much. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 34 wordsHurdler jockey McCann nearly struck terra firma when Granaree tried to jump the hurdle in front of the Grandstand at Canning Park. A strong pair of stirrups helped him to arrive back in his saddle, instead of receiving a nasty fall. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsTHE BOOTH STABLE MUST HAVE BEEN READING THE STARS DURing the week as it came at Don Moon pretty well in to-day’s Flying Handicap at Randwick, and while the majority of form students were giving the Dons backers punnets of raspberries, the Rosehill ...
Article : 355 wordsWHEN BOB MILLER'S MAGPIE CELDING, INDUCEMENT, WON TO-day’s Winter Stakes it completed a double hat trick. Inducement had won at his two previous starts and jockey Bill Cook had won two races earlier in the afternoon. The finish was left to Inducement ...
Article : 412 wordsNINETEEN HORSES FACED STARTER S. CHIPPER IN THE JUNE Handicap, the only withdrawal being Tom Ralgon. Horses backed included Thorville from 7’s to 4’s, Golden Arran at 3’s, 4’s and 5’s, Peter Mystic, Karmount, Irish Dame and Billy Oliver’s youngster, Royal ...
Article : 406 wordsIN HIS LAST FOUR STARTS, Whaleman has now credited his connections with three firsts and a third. Following up his victory at ...
Article : 291 wordsFOR YEARS NOW IN THE LOCAL racing world there has been a strong combination between trainer-owner “Jon”' Towton and Jockey ...
Article : 365 words[?]ONE THING THAT THE BANYA HURDLE RACE, RUN AT MOONEE Valley this afternoon, showed very plainly was that Cobranveil and Lanilda have really no claims to be considered as having good Grand National chances. Both ran indifferently. ...
Article : 298 wordsAFTER A STEWARDS INQUIRY INTO HIS REVERSAL OF FORM on Monday last after winning the first steeple, Prince Arim proved a model of consistency by listing the A.J.C. £2,000 Steeplechase at Randwick to-day. He donkey-licked the opposition at the end of ...
Article : 327 wordsTHREE HORSES WERE BACKed in the Maiden Hurdle Race in Multiped and Boonamunya at 2 to 1, and Polynicies (the winner) at ...
Article : 271 wordsALTHOUGH THE MOST INTEResting aspect of the Flying Handicap may have been the dead heat between Green and Blue and ...
Article : 413 words[?]MEMBERS OF THE WILLIAMStown Racing Club met on Friday [?] last to elect a committeeman in place of the late Norman Falkiner ...
Article : 223 wordsOWING TO THE EXTRAORDINary leniency shown by the handicapper to Radioscope, who is owned by the V.R.C. chairman, several ...
Article : 237 wordsOne of the State’s oldest “Knights of the pig skin F. Cracknell just missed landing the June Handicap on Clyde, who ran a dead heat with Jolly Sim. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 32 wordsBY HIS BRILLIANT SHOWING IN the Brunswick Steeplechase at Moonee Valley this afternoon, Nyangay has gained a more popular ...
Article : 197 wordsTHE RACE CLUBS ARE OUT TO encourage the the public to aftend their meetings and they are not leaving a stone unturned to put ...
Article : 356 wordsHAVING HIS SIXTEENTH START FOR THE SEASON, WALLACE FORtevoit, who has been well backed in some of his recent starts, turned up as the winner of the principal event of the Canning Park meeting. There was good cash for him at 8 to 1, to 6 to 1, some of the best known ...
Article : 430 wordsSam Burmister met Martin Bucht in six ten minute rounds wrestling match at the Town Hall last night. It was the second match staged in ...
Article : 123 words[?] THE STIPENDIARY STEWARDS Meeting at Moonee Valley announced that A. Wilson, the rider of Radioscope, was fined £2 for ...
Article : 232 wordsSIR GRAVITY IS ONE OF THOSE GALLOPERS WHO RACE BETTER at the Canning course than anywhere else. At a recent meeting at Canning Sir Gravity got “murdered,” to use the term of a well known sport, by being badly ridden, but his connections took no risks this ...
Article : 426 wordsSo June [?] is set aside for the celebration of the Centenary of the State, and North Perth lags not behind other municipalities in the matter of ...
Article : 144 wordsPerth sportsmen are busy these days studying charts of the Grand National Hurdles and Steeplechase, which are to be run on July 6 and 13 respectively. ...
Article : 149 wordsLen Stewart has ordered one of the new Indian Dirt Track Specials through Armstrongs for the racing here next season. These machines ...
Article : 80 wordsADELAIDE, Saturday. — Whilst [?]laying with an Airedale terrier at his [?]ome in Victoria-street, Parkside, on [?] Friday night, Norman Stanley Layton, ...
Article : 91 wordsFred Cracknell “bobs up” occasionally on a winner at the metropolitan meetings. His pals were glad to see him on Clyde, who ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 33 wordsWho rode Green and Blue in the Flying Handicap at Canning. The gelding ran the second dead heat of the day with Jolly Crier. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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