G.N. Hurdle Today
(N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) MELBOURNE. July 4. Nothing in the field is given much chance of beating the champion jumper, Lots of Time, in the 920,000 Grand National Hurdle (3m.) at Flemington today. Lots of Time, only a four-year-old, has invested the race with more glamour than it has had for years. The champion, owned jointly by a dancer, Sally Wood, and a Melbourne television personality, Jimmy Hannan, will be trying for his tenth suecssslve New Zealand hopes will be with Town Guard, owned by an Auckland businessman, Mr L. G. Dormer. Town Guard is one of a team of four jumpers brought to Melbourne for the winter racing by B. L. Hillis, of Takaninl.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32032, 5 July 1969, Page 6
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