Racing Card Fragment at 1200m Sprint
Incomplete line from a racing card shows event at Maiden Hep with 1200 meters and race times. Names appear as Flying Hep and others, but details are unreadable.
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 16, 1975
Page
2
Incomplete line from a racing card shows event at Maiden Hep with 1200 meters and race times. Names appear as Flying Hep and others, but details are unreadable.
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Fragmentary OCR text yields a terse note with unclear context. The readable fragment mentions TEs and a phrase about ease and a person named Sen, but lacks a coherent event, date, or place to form a fuller summary.
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