Flight Between Winners
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright LONDON, July 30. The Australian jockey, A. (“Scobie”) Breasley, had two winners yesterday on racecourses 100 miles apart in just over two hours. He rode the winner in the Halford Plate at 4 p.m. at Birmingham—the last race on the card—and then flew south to the evening meeting at London’s Alexandra Park where he rode the winner of the Muswell Plate run at 6.10 p.m.—the second race on the card. He was placed second in the July Handicap and third in the Hampstead Plate at Alexandra Park. Another Australian, Jack Purtell, was second in the Calthorpe Plate at Birmingham, and third in the Summer Three-year-old Handicap at the evening meeting.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28343, 31 July 1957, Page 4
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116Flight Between Winners Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28343, 31 July 1957, Page 4
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