The increased number of horses being "made" into hurdlers augurs well for the jumping season which will be opened this week by the Warrnambool Grand Annual Steeplechase meeting. ...
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Article : 626 wordsIngoda Boy, who will be banned from the metropolitan area unless his barrier manners improve, may be tried over hurdles. ...
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Article : 272 wordsStanley Smith, 19-year-old Tasmanian, who pottered about Melbourne training tracks for a year or so without becoming attached to any ...
Article : 255 wordsHUGH McDONALD, young apprentice attached to Bob Sinclair's stables at Flemington, will have a good cause to remember his first season. ...
Article : 144 wordsPETER PAN, dual Melbourne Cup winner, and one of the greatest gallopers the Australian turf has seen, died at Baroona Stud, ...
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Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), Sat 10 May 1941, Page 38
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