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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Nov 28, 1940
Page
2
A seven event programme at Richmond Park showcases the mile and five furlong races. The Seedingers Handicap offers a £30 prize for one mile and a half while the Club Handicap pays £610 for one mile and five furlongs. Pacers with good form are engaged across events, promising keen racing action.
Belmont Park hosts races of six and seven and a half furlongs on Saturday. The program highlights horses with recent good form and shows their finishes down to ninth at last three starts on metropolitan courses this season.
The item lists multiple race names and contenders including Tretel Oi Tre signe Agrion, Belmont events, Sky Warden, Master Waikohu, Dark Bride, Silver Tongue, Fernridge Meadow Line Trial Stakes, and Dawnlis Pretoria Siggle. It presents a compact overview of entrants and stakes across racing meet selections.
A Hobart based consultant announces during the present war that he will provide health and wealth remedies to subscribers for a fee and also donate funds through the RSL for Red Cross, Australian Comforts, and distressed diggers causes. He pledges £1000 to the RSL each time he dispenses his prescriptions from his Hobart clinic and invites patrons to contact for full details.
A list of race entries names horses such as Royal Sheik Percy’s Lad Black Yamma Totalisator and La Bronte Wilver Mint with various handicaps including November and Association events. Names like Arab Princess Kolrock Red Bay and Wrecker Rongamai Huon Globe appear tied to Club and Summer handicaps alongside Walisca Black Bertha Sir Raymond and Golden Eagle Cabatar Bronette.
The list catalogs horses and entries for Moonee Valley races including entries like Royal Jubilee, Rendezvous, and Obverse Relife trials. It also notes handicaps and beneficiaries such as the Benevolent Highweight and Juvenile Handicaps with several horse names and related events.
A trio of mini items: a husband’s rapid job promos end with a sack and a telegram to his wife who replies to fly home with feathers. A three year old boy rescues himself after falling into a well following a mother taught rhyme, and a New Yorker child adds a line to his growing vocabulary with a defiant Oh yeah.
Western Australian Branch reports the price of Standard Australian Cornsacks for delivery on rails to Geraldton is 10/7 per lozen. The notice details the board’s pricing for the upcoming season.
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