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16 - Capricorn Coast Mirror September 23 - September 29, 1988
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• ABOVE: Yeppoon Cup winner Fiery Batchelor (number 3) was up with leaders at the start of the race while early pacemaker was Gap the Field (obscured). Pictured (front left) are the competitors: Gap the Field (number 5 obscured), Roman Knight (number one), Fiery Batchelor (number three), Melmor (number 6), River Band (number two) and Konedebu (number four).
BEST CROWD IN TWO YEARS FOR RACES Bookies hold $77,000 for Yeppoon meet
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THE Yeppoon Cup meeting, backed by Coast business people, brought out the crowd to Yeppoon Amateur Race Club on Wednesday. More than 500 racegoers, the best crowd for the past couple of years, provided the eight bookmakers with a total hold for the day of $77,000. Fiery Batchelor won the 1800m. Yeppoon Panel and Paint Yeppoon Cup by three-quarters of a length but had to wait for the outcome of a protest by the second horse, 5-4 favourite Konedobu, on the grounds of interference in the fmal 100 metres, before picking up the money. The win gave Fiery Batchelor his second feature win in 11 days having won the Trainers' Cup over the same journey as Wednesday at Callaghan Park on September 10. Ridden by John Flanders, Fiery Batchelor is trained by Don Black at Sandringham, a property near the Caves. The six-horse event attracted a lot of attention in the betting ring. Third was River Road, the winner of this year's Rockhampton Cup in June. Almost overshadowing the Yeppoon Cup feature event was the double by Gold Parade in both the first and last races. Ridden by Tracey Winmill in both events, Gold Parade is trained by Tony McMahon, a newcomer to Rockhampton racing. McMahon told secretary Leo Mackie on Monday, at acceptance time, he wanted to support the meeting and said he would start Gold Parade twice if it could be given enough time to recover from the first event. Gold Parade won the Yeppoon Readymix Park Stakes over 1000m easily beating the 5-4 on favorite Karara Prince by one-and-a-half lengths. Third was Lord Dunkeith, a further head away. Gold Parade backed up in the fifth and final race, the BP Yeppoon Ser ice Station Barmaryee Plate Handicap over 1200 metres to defeat Chestnut Gold and Palm Court. Punters who considered Gold Parade a good bet after its first win received top value in the final
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• ABOVE: Yeppoon Panel and Paint's Greg Simpson and Yeppoon AmateurRacing Club member John Millroy present Yeppoon Cup winner's part owner Jessie Black with the trophy. Mrs Black is mother of trainer Don Black. of Integrity. Another feature was that both horse event when it firmed from 4-1 to 5-2 after a started at 8-1 ... relatively unwanted by the puntsensational plunge on the locally-trained Hacer's ers. Pride, which started favorite. The other two events on the programme, the L'Kerokim won by two lengths from the fastYeppoon Butchers Maiden Handicap (1000m) finishing favorite Swiss Franc and Bonny Symand the Yeppoon Tyre Service Park Stakes bol. (1440m) provided another double, this time for Man of Integrity won by a neck from Eins and Rockhampton trainer Lyle Rowe. the 6-4 favorite On the Road Again. He trained both winners, L'Kerokim and Man
Eighth Emu Park village circuit brings runners from wide area EMU PARK'S annual 8.2km village circuit attracted a strong field of 52 competitors from as far afield as Sydney, Warwick and Stanthorpe. Runners also came from Brisbane, Gladstone, Black-water, Mackay, Yeppoon and Rockhampton. Coast runner Bev Laundry successfully defended her title when she was the first female across the line in 33.40mins, slicing 18 seconds off her previous course best. Rockhampton runner David Akeringa was the overall male winner after clocking 26.52mins, one second outside his personal best for the course. Completing the course in 44.36mins was 65year-old Richard Orr, the most senior competing runner. Winning female team was Bev Laundry, Peachy George and Sparkle Furness. The event, in its eighth year, was organised by Mrs Laundry and the S150 raised will go to the Don Ireland Swimming Complex. Results: male 17 years and under, C Edmonston 1, P Murphy 2 and A Prince 3; female 17 years and under, P George 1, S Crawford 2 and S Furness 3; male 18-34 years, D Akeringa 1, J Ford 2, D Eborn 3; female 18-34 years, K Van Earde 1, T Rack 2 and S Orr 3; male 35-44 years, J Fairly 1, M Smith 2, N Burby 3; female 35-44 years, B Laundry 1, S McCormack 2 and A Kleinmeulman 3; male 45-59 years, C Phillips 1, B Mathers 2 and J Cavanagh 3; female 45-59 years, P Gorrell; male over 60 years, R Orr. Mrs Laundry said she was now preparing for The Caves relay which includes five different sporting disciplines - running, paddling, swim-
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Rodney's a champion LIVINGSTONE Shire boasts an Australian Junior Boys Kumite champion in Parkhurst's Rodney Mather son of division 4 Cr Glenda Mather. Rodney, 15, has been learning karate for the past 20 months with the Rockhampton Police Youth Club. He also attends The Caves branch of the club for training. Fifteen boys and one girl from junior to senior competitors attended the Australian titles in Sydney and only two won titles. Rodney also achieved his third Kyi brown belt grading. The titles has also resulted in an invitation to the International Titles in Japan this year. Rodney said the titles had been a good learning experience and felt the competition was excellent.
For all your Company andi Personal Superannuation See CHRIS BULBROOK your Capricorn Coast District Inspector at Yeppoon Courthouse 39 3089 a/h 39 3624
AGES ago I wrote a par about kids today throwing their one and two cent pieces in the gutter after getting them in change. At the time, I was a trifle shocked at the idea of such waste. Well, "Old Baldy" remembered the item this week after his Expo trip and recalled something that made his hair stand on end. Seems he was visiting someone in some part of Brisbane and managed to find a parking space. There was a parking meter and 14year-old son Rhett jumped out to hit the machine with a coin (he saw a poker machine once and lives in hope of a jacicpot!). Anyway, Rhett calls out thathis 10 cents is useless ... the parking meter wanted a $1 coin. Now "OB" has known Rhett for his full 14 years and knows from long experience that if you give Rhett $10 to buy two cans of Coke he'll return with the Coke and change of $5 and tell you how expensive things are these days. So, rather than trust his son, he checked the meter ... and Rhett was dead right, the thing gobbled a $1 coin. Strangely enough, in Brisbane the kids may as well throw their one and two cent coins in the gutter ... and their five cent and 10 cent coins, too. There is absolutely no use fox them. As a matter of fact, when you empty your pockets at the end of a day you only have 20,50, $1 and $2 coins to throw on the dresser. Somehow, Brisbane has eliminated the need for smaller coins. ••• BY the way, Rhett very nearly became a permanent part of the Brisbane scene ... Suzy, "OB" and Rhett were 2.54 centimetring along in Brisbane traffic when the lights went red and the world came to a smoggy stop. Just then, a bloke crossed the road at the lights carrying a bike wheel. At the kerb he stopped, fiddled around, and seemed to straddle it. "OB," (who's a city kid from way back) realised what it was ... the bloke was riding a Unicycle, the one the clowns ride in the cicus. It had a chrome rim, a chrome seat pole and a shiny black seat. Realising Rhett had the camera, "OB" called to him to get a pic Rhett, seeing the chance to put big brother Rhodes (Mirror photographer) in his place, dived out of the van with camera ready to fire. As his feet his the footpath the traffic lights changed ... "OB," reverting to his former city ways, immediately gunned the motor to burn away from the rest of the traffic. Rhett, seeing his meal ticket drawing away, probably never to return, forgot the picture, ran like the proverbial and dived into the van, muttering nice things about his parents such as how much they loved him because they provided him with exercise even in the big city. So, there's no photo of a unicycle! •
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SOME people are touchy about accuracy, like the woman who wrote to John Murphy of Yeppoon Travel Agency aver one of the cartoons he used recently to advertise trips to Nev Zealand. The cartoon, strangely enough, fea cured a Kiwi (wonder why) and the Kiwi "thonged" into Yeppoon Travel Agency to buy a ticket. The woman, who lives at Kinka Beach, wrote a very funny letter to John pointing out that "every New Zealander knows that Australian thongs are not thongs at all. They are Jandals. Yes, Jandals. Jandals are made of plastic or rubber and worn on the feet - in the Philippines they are called flip-flops". The woman then went on to say that thongs, "proper thongs, are made of leather. They are Roman-styled leather thongs. That is what thong means," she said, "a piece of leather, wrapped around the foot. We Kiwis know this, and so we correctly called these 'thongs' Jandals." Now, to show she had a very well developed sense of humour, she closed her letter by saying: "Maybe you meant to say that we Kiwis thronged into YTA? Anyway, your drawings are quite good even if you got your research thwrong!" •
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JUST a note on the above ... John Murphy didn't write the copy. Believe it or not, "OB" writes the words and a genius with a pot of Indian Ink named Mike West does the drawings ... but that particular cartoon (repeated elsewhere this week) deliberately included the word "thong". You see, "OB" knew it would annoy Mirror sales rep Dave Ruck (who's a Kiwi) so he showed him the rough before it went to Mike West. Rucky immediately pointed out that Kiwis wear Jandals then gave a long -explanation about the word. "OB" lis tened patiently, agreed with every word ... the told Mike to use "thong" just for the hell of it. When the woman's letter turned up, Rucky couldn't believe his luck ... he'd finally won a point. By the way, even though Jandal is correct, wouldn't someone take offence if the next cartoon featured a Filipino woman who "flipflonned" into the travel agency? \ •