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(NX. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE. June 30. The New Zealand Ally Ilbint. odds-on favourite, scored a popular win in the First Melbourne Handicap at Moonee Valley yesterday. Ilbint won by two lengths from Mlnstrelefte. with Lady Rashleigh a length and a half away third. Ilbint which had won on a heavy track at Mornington at her only previous start In Australia on May 29. ran the six furlongs leas 30 yards in Imin betting plunge on the former New Zealand ' horse. Clean Heart, went astray when he fell 330 yards after the start of the Plenty Hurdle. Clean Heart, backed from 6-1 to eaual favourite at 3/1. nosed ved at the first hurdle. His rider, the New Zealander, p Mohi. who was having his first ride on the Moonee Valley course, was taken to the casualty room by ambulance. Meh! suffered a shaking and abrasion. He was not allowed ? o n<k Gloa David in the Melrose Steeplechase. The Plentv Hurdle* was won >y Mr News (•/!)-
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30171, 1 July 1963, Page 5
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