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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Aug 22, 1947
Page
3
An OCR fragment shows garbled text about a scheduled time around 4 p.m and references to a meeting or event. Names, places, or concrete details are unreadable or corrupted, preventing precise identification of participants or the exact action.
Tattersalls Cup results and acceptances listed for the Brisbane August event. The page notes entries including FONG manDIcar FP ferlongs and Guang Foren Light with various odds and time marks, detailing late-day despesences and preliminary trances.
Horse racing notes describe several sprint trials with two year olds and three furlongs timings. Mentions include Dosaben Actos Gold est Black Pearl and Zebra among others, with races titled Three Year Old Handicap Newhaven Conset and Malden Handicap. Races listed at Newhaven and Pacific links feature several horses and weights.
Rosehill accepts for Saturday feature events led by Three-Year-Old Handicap with Baracht and Prince Consort among contenders. Notable entries include On Target in the Melbourne Cup favourite role, Mindy Prines highlighting the lower divisions, and Chanak tipped in the Alisa Handicap with Morang Malden among maidens.
Race card fragment lists numerous horse names and numbers including Royal damignment and Gokimar with placements such as Gruhasatown 4 and Manelit 0, alongside several others like Deep Gen and High Tide. The readable portion resembles a betting or race entry page with incomplete details.
The report lists handicaps and stakes across divisions with horses such as Sherman Lucky, Willow Pack, Seiby, and Maachat. Notable runners include Prince Consort, Buonarotti Boy, Chaos, and Eira diiaion with finishes ranging from 1 to 3 in seven furlongs events.
Fragmented OCR text with numerous unreadable words and proper nouns. no clear event, person, or date can be reliably identified for a factual card.
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