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  2. WALLACE FORTEVIOT WINS BIG RACE AT CANNING PARK CONVINCINGLY AT 7 TO 1

    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
  3. YES! IT WAS A SURPRISE.

    [?] 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 words
  4. NEARLY CAME A CROPPER.

    Hurdler 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 words
  5. PUNNETS OF RASPBERRIES

    THE 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 words
  6. PEERLESS HORSEMANSHIP

    WHEN 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 words
  7. OUTSIDERS DEAD-HEAT

    NINETEEN 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 words
  8. WHALEMAN AGAIN

    IN HIS LAST FOUR STARTS, Whaleman has now credited his connections with three firsts and a third. Following up his victory at ...

    Article : 291 words
  9. THE OLD FIRM

    FOR YEARS NOW IN THE LOCAL racing world there has been a strong combination between trainer-owner “Jon”' Towton and Jockey ...

    Article : 365 words
  10. G.N. CHANCES N.G.

    [?]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 words
  11. PRINCE ARIM PAYS

    AFTER 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 words
  12. POLYNECIES—A HURDLER

    THREE HORSES WERE BACKed in the Maiden Hurdle Race in Multiped and Boonamunya at 2 to 1, and Polynicies (the winner) at ...

    Article : 271 words
  13. RESOURCE!

    ALTHOUGH THE MOST INTEResting aspect of the Flying Handicap may have been the dead heat between Green and Blue and ...

    Article : 413 words
  14. NEW BLOOD

    [?]MEMBERS OF THE WILLIAMStown Racing Club met on Friday [?] last to elect a committeeman in place of the late Norman Falkiner ...

    Article : 223 words
  15. FALSE ALARM

    OWING TO THE EXTRAORDINary leniency shown by the handicapper to Radioscope, who is owned by the V.R.C. chairman, several ...

    Article : 237 words
  16. IN THE DEAD HEAT.

    One 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 words
  17. MOSSTROOPER LUCKY

    BY HIS BRILLIANT SHOWING IN the Brunswick Steeplechase at Moonee Valley this afternoon, Nyangay has gained a more popular ...

    Article : 197 words
  18. BETTING WAR

    THE 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 words
  19. ONE FOR WALLACE FORTEVIOT

    HAVING 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 words
  20. Burmister Beats Bucht

    Sam 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
  21. Stewards’ Doings

    [?] THE STIPENDIARY STEWARDS Meeting at Moonee Valley announced that A. Wilson, the rider of Radioscope, was fined £2 for ...

    Article : 232 words
  22. SIR GRAVITY MAKES AMENDS

    SIR 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 words
  23. CENTENARY WEEK

    So 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 words
  24. THE BIG DOUBLE

    Perth 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 words
  25. Dirt Track Doings

    Len Stewart has ordered one of the new Indian Dirt Track Specials through Armstrongs for the racing here next season. These machines ...

    Article : 80 words
  26. FATAL BITE

    ADELAIDE, Saturday. — Whilst [?]laying with an Airedale terrier at his [?]ome in Victoria-street, Parkside, on [?] Friday night, Norman Stanley Layton, ...

    Article : 91 words
  27. FRED CRACKNELL.

    Fred Cracknell “bobs up” occasionally on a winner at the metropolitan meetings. His pals were glad to see him on Clyde, who ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 33 words
  28. CLIFF MINTO.

    Who rode Green and Blue in the Flying Handicap at Canning. The gelding ran the second dead heat of the day with Jolly Crier. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 25 words
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