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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 19, 1941
Page
2
The Goodwood Doncaster Cup and Cup attract strong fields with Coralunis and Fern Ridge topweights. Contenders like Hestia, Ragtime, Jolly Rip, and Tennessee Wood feature in the wide program with other races including the Breeders Handicap and Western Handicap noted for Saturday at Gloucester Park.
Good Fields contest all events at Gloucester Park with seven races over a mile and a half. Geraldton Handicap offers £106 for horses rated 117 and better in the same meeting.
The list shows selections and handicap placements across several races at Gloucester Park including the W A Breeders Handicap Stretadeome Master Stretta Jewel's Heir Guildford Handicap Lord Orish Maud Pointer Lulu Gold Bellevue Handicap Royal Sheik Darwin Handicap Tennessee Wood Lutawa Lee Derby Mandaring Handicap Flying Childe Prejudice Geraldton Handicap Flying Daly Louis Braden Louis Again.
The list shows horses including Tropics, Golden Profit, Prince Sardis, Solna, Banbea, Frojit, Tresigne, Bupper, and Karawea on Goodwood and Doncaster cards. Some entries appear garbled but indicate a Rivervale Purse race and multiple runners for the racing meet.
The complainant accuses a twenty year spouse of throwing things at her and asks for court protection. The magistrate questions the timing and severity of the threats as the exchange ends with a stubborn quip about improving aim.
Approved horses with Perth Fremantle or Kalgoorlie wins and 2.17 or better handicaps race in divisions on December 26 29 and a final on January 1 over one mile five furlongs.
The W A Christmas Handicap for approved horses with stakes of 1080 pounds sets qualifying races on December 29 with a final to follow. The fastest eligible horse in each division earns a place in the one and a half mile final, with first and second horses advancing.
W.A. Derby of M00 offers prizes of 120 pounds to the winner, 60 to the third, for a one mile and four furlongs race for three year olds. The event runs on Friday, December 2.
A hard hearted father threatens to oust his daughter as she pleads for mercy. In a tense moment a woman in the gallery shouts bid to come home with her, breaking the silence with a sharp call.
In a wartime moment Hitler asked a private how things were going. The private replied I cant complain and Hitler retorted You cant. The exchange became a noted anecdote about the Fuehrers wartime morale banter.
On December 29 1941 a sequence of prize allocations is noted with totals of 600 120 and 260 for first second and third places. The text references ong mils as a part of the event description.
A man with a black eye and minor injuries was in the hospital out-patients department. When asked if he was married the man replied no and that the injury resulted from a motor smash.
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