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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 23, 1952
Page
3
Saturday at Gordonvale Turf Club featured a lively curtain raiser with Sparrow's Rest narrowly beating Milur Prefeck and Brigitn amid a busy betting day. The Bin Division produced Cecily Pride as favorite while Silver Quan led early before strong finish by Barrine Girt and Bor Ile Slimine.
Readable fragments describe horses such as Bonny Min, Silver Que, and Barrine Git with odds and lengths. Mentions race details like handicaps and ages, but the garbled OCR yields unclear participants and outcomes.
fragmented OCR notes describe Gordonvale Turf Club events for Friday next including Gardonvale Cup entries and bookmaking details. mentions prizes, payments due, and a cashier who received substantial totals. contains unreadable names and figures, with references to bets and promises around the event.
The report lists fields and barrier positions for Pray and multiple contenders across several handicap events at a Melbourne meeting on December 3. It names horses such as Segoena Hurdle entrants, Hope You, Ta, Dawn Melony, Trafalgar Day, So Simple, Home Fleet, and others with weights and distances, noting the Christmas Handicap and Toronga Handicap times and entries.
The page lists numerous horse names with weights and odds across multiple races including the Encouraged Handicap. Prominent entries include Prince Morel, Galloa tan, Constant Wonder, Moriarty, Alanna, Carioca, and Trizami among others, with weights and betting figures scattered throughout.
A young jockey faced a suspension after a disputed incident at the track. The ruling followed an inquiry by racing officials, with no names or locations specified in the readable text.
Unreadable OCR lists multiple handicaps and placings across events. Names such as Krikatna Cale Merry Fonte Ragpyei Cun Sant Wonder Chisholm Blue Play Euphrates Sea Rage and others appear with various placements, suggesting a dense summary of scores and entrants from a track or golf style meet.
Nominees for the 1985 director election are listed for Mareeba Co op Society Ltd Hart Street. Signatories include W G Fossett W A Garner RE J Leinster Mrs N Separate K N A Martin FP Srho EW Thompson Je Wallace and secretary E W Thompson.
A fragment reports the Australian team of 12 began lane sessions after ill practice, with weather affecting the lead into a race. Names like Pap Tagfica and Maile appear, but the text is incomplete and unclear about outcomes or dates.
The National Bazin Association stated it would decide soon whether boxing bouts should be limited on television. Officials said telecast popularity has risen, stirring calls for tighter controls while skeptics fear reduced exposure could harm the sport.
Canberra December 22 The Attorney General Beamer JA Spies announced wartime invention award claims must be lodged by January 1. A committee examined 33 to 21,500 pound claims totaling 27,638 pounds. Several plains for awards had been made but many inventions found no wartime practicality. New claims to be lodged with the Commonwealth War Inventions Award Committee Melbourne.
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