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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 09, 1941
Page
2
Kolrock, a standout pacer from Queen's Gift, rode an eight race winning streak to victory in the State Handicap last Saturday. Owner-trainer plans a rest spell through autumn, with Kolrock likely out of training until October or November.
The report lists horses that finished fourth last Saturday night at Gloucester Park. Pri Mavista took fourth in the Progressive Handicap followed by Linga Lady in the Grandstand Het dicap Fullwil in the State Handicap Wilna's Gift in the New Year Handicap Jenny Derby in the Association Handicap and Gold Vale in the Farewell Handicap.
Form guide for Goodwood highlights St. Peter the four year old gelding by Constant Son-Dorian as the main selection in the two mile Goodwood Cup to be run Saturday. Meadow Line Bright Cunje Amusing Ragtime and The Laird also show promising form among the purse horses with several carrying light weights.
The page lists handicaps and selections for the Goodwood events including the Rayning Handicap over one mile and a half, Goodwood Stakes, Riverval Plate, and Welter Handicap. Notable names include Maud Murphy, Pericles, Sea Hare, Aran, and Dark Bride with various contenders and purses noted.
At Gloucester Park on Saturday night a seven event programme will decide pacers from the W A Trotting Cup divisions. Six races cover a mile and a half while three events cater to 2 2 and better performers and 2 16 and faster pacers clash in Kununoppin Northam and Nungarin Handicaps. The Trotters Handicap goes over a mile and three quarters.
At Headquarters last Saturday races named Muralex Commonwealth Handicap Pelmar Primer Welter and Tetbury Imperial Stakes Meedful Stenanile Plate Muffitt Final Handicap. A student asks where you have been these years and replies at the University taking medicine.
Sundries list includes athletic straps for cyclists with prices of 6s 10d and 13s 6d. Whirling Sprays and Cain's Tonic Pills for men offered. Jurogen for men’s energy featured as a monthly course. T. Agency Supply, G.P.O. Perth.
The 1910 Byegrove trials featured eleven entrants, seven completing tests. Four steam and three petrol machines demonstrated haulage, farm implement use, and road or land loads. Between 1910 and 1914 progress was slow, but World War I increased tractor adoption and led to postwar demand for trackless tractors.
Farmers report typical daily outputs for a tractor on about 500 acres of arable land. Ploughing with four furrows yields about 1 acre a day, harrowing with a 300ft harrow 120 acres, rolling with a 24ft roller 80 acres, drilling wheat with a 16ft 32-disc drill 30 acres, cross ploughing fallows 20 acres, pitch pole harrowing 45 acres, and applying inorganic fertilizer 2 to 40 acres per day depending on application rate.
The Christmas obituary notes H. J. Doyle as the Grand Old Man of the Shearing Industry. He rose from Queensland and NSW to manage the Federal Sheep Shearing Company and later led the Pastoral Labour Bureau in Western Australia. Doyle helped shape shed rules and shed life as a prominent authority on sheep shearing in Australia.
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