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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 20, 1941
Page
6
A dense OCR fragment lists juvenile and maiden divisions with names like Vivien Lage, Lesley Marne, Lady Bertha Bluerap, Cape Amber, and Magic Ring. It includes various race entries, weights, and blotchy annotations across multiple divisions and events.
Fragmented list shows horses, jockeys, distances, and venues across a Saturday card. Names include Leicester Piccadilly Jim and Coventry, with various race lengths like 5 furlongs and about 1 mile. No single dominant event or outcome is readable.
Tomorrow fixtures list first and second grade rugby matches at Manuka Oval and Dunrobin Oval. Teams include Northern Suburbs, A.M.C., STAFF, EASTS, UNIVERSITY and ALA with captains and key backs and forwards named. Referees are Mr R I Maguire, Mr V A Griffiths, and Mr J K Oram.
Inter department tennis fixtures listed for next weekend include Customea vs Health, Post Office vs Treasury, Printing Office vs Statisticians, Customs vs Treasury, Interior vs Patemta, Post Office vs Commerce, Customer vs Printing Office, Labour and N Service vs Prime Minister's, with Public Service singles championship entries due Saturday.
Scratched entries Amable and Doombean City from the Doombon Handicap while Hilarious Rhythmic Girlltown and Ginger Lase remain listed with no further details provided.
The Royal Canberra Stableford competition for a silver spoon was won by Mra Snow with 20 points in A Grade and Mra MtGovern with 22 in B Grade. Other notable scores include Miss Rolfe 28 and Mra Fraser 27 in A Grade, and Miss M B Wright 27, Mra Strahan and Mrs. Eddy on 21 in B Grade. Next Thursday the colour-team semi finals Bronze versus Orange and Purple versus Gold will be played, with a separate event for associates not in the teams.
The Queanbeyan and District Courting Club released the draw for Saturdays Queanbeyan meeting with Canberra Stakes and Maiden Stakes races. Divisions feature Anne Zora King Mara Antrigue New Style Bettys Own Pacific Again Ginger Robin and others with reserves Lucky Pay and Crews.
The schedule lists several 1 pm and 3:15 pm matches with teams Hall of Students Green Grammar Ex-Students Red Grammar and Ex-Students Green. Umpires include J Len P Tillyard M Williams and B&B. Players named include M Whitahead Fairhall and P Veal.
At Flemmington sale yards a ready demand for 2.00 sheep and lambs supported a firm market for prime cattle. General quality was fair with better specimens noted. Quoted: ewes 12/ to 18/, lambs 1 to 17/, cows 18/ to 19/, heifer beef 47/, good quality 44/, medium 40/, and others 34/.
Bungendore stock sale on June 11 yarded 201 cattle mainly medium weight bullocks. Competition from Queanbeyan, Goulburn, Canberra and metropolitan buyers was keen. Top price 14/15/6 for Hereford bullocks from Colonel Tom Rutledge at Gidleigh. Other entries included Hereford, Shorthorn, Black Poll bullocks and cows with varied prices per head.
A brilliant filly recorded by Romero at Ascot this morning. She beat staglemate Overture by four lengths after a six length start in four furlongs on the erase track. The half mile time was 40 and the last three furlongs 87.
A jockey identified as H. Morris was thrown from a horse after a stumble. He suffered a head wound but the injury did not appear to seriously affect his condition.
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