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Newspaper
Sydney Referee
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 17, 1919
Page
13
The Australian Jockey Club announces its Anniversary Meeting on Saturday 24 and Monday 26 January 1920. The program includes The Challenge Stakes and The Anniversary Handicap with entries from leading horses and riders. Officer Cromer, secretary, submits the official notes and timetable.
The readable text is fragmentary and lacks coherent events or identifiable entities. It appears to be garbled OCR from a local page with scattered names and places, offering no clear incident, date, or outcome to summarize into a factual brief.
Kensington Rosebery racecourse featured a dense card with Tony Blue a strong contender. In the Flying Hands, Fourteen Hands and Rosebery Handicap sections, close finishes and upset contenders dominated the action, with Tony Blue delivering a tight victory amid a large field and shifting betting.
Menangle Park Pony Races at Menangle feature a pen and trotting meeting with trains departing Sydney at 10.30 am. Events include Novice Handicaps and Trots such as Lady Berry, Flying Mile, Caulfield or Sunraised, Miss Triem, Carey Moore, and Lady Godiva versus Medway, with Stanfield or Tressaline in the Fourteen-Two Handicap.
South Coast F C will cater for pony racing on the Wollon Ong course this Friday in Sydney. Trains depart Central Station at 9 35 am and 10 3 and 10 50 am. Novice Handicap includes Athol Mimer and Elinora. Fourteen Hands Handicap features My Dove and Orient Cluster. Trial Stakes Gauge of Time payment. Fourteen-Two Handicap Nova, Clare Piglo. Christmas Handicap La Maison and Benroman.
A brisk Ascot meeting saw seven of ten events won by favorites or near rivals. Highlighted performances included Weine Jack Marley and Meccano equalling records, while crowds followed top horses like Blair Boy Stand Out and Cool Girl as the card produced close finishes and several standout holds.
A Tasmanian gathering featured various racing events with notable outcomes. Chiraness, Ver Panope, and Manorway posted strong showings while Thrappie dominated the Le Gave Handicap. Duan Wan led the Connistan Tain, and Derby candidate Thin Fede defeated First Oak and Golden Wie in the Elphin Fy.
The Meccano horse led from the start to win the Foureentwo Handicap by a length and a half from Field Rose, with Burce Roy in third. Madam Rone and others followed as the race unfolded amid heavy bookmaker chatter and late-season pacing.
Fragmented OCR items describe a Tasmanian Aging Club gathering with notes on activities, speeches, and participants. It mentions First Day and various names and places, though many words are garbled. The readable fragments point to an event summary, not a full report.
Uneven OCR text from a Newcastle page fragment shows scattered terms and names unclear due to garbled characters and missing context. The readable bits mention places and possible references to teams or people, but the overall story cannot be reliably reconstructed.
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