THE YOUNG NEWCASTLE JOCKEY, Max Lees, was wondering if there were leprechauns about, it being St Patrick’s day and all, when he took this fall at Canterbury, Sydney, last week. Fifty yards from the post in the Graduation Stakes Lees’s meant, Romanoff, was running second and looking a likely winner. And then, the saints preserve him, he fell off! Lees thought at first that Romanoff had turned his head to try to bite the jockey’s leg. But in the official film of the race it looked as though his back legs went from under him. “He screwed and went one way, and I was left travelling in the opposite direction,” Lees said later.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32564, 25 March 1971, Page 8
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113THE YOUNG NEWCASTLE JOCKEY, Max Lees, was wondering if there were leprechauns about, it being St Patrick’s day and all, when he took this fall at Canterbury, Sydney, last week. Fifty yards from the post in the Graduation Stakes Lees’s meant, Romanoff, was running second and looking a likely winner. And then, the saints preserve him, he fell off! Lees thought at first that Romanoff had turned his head to try to bite the jockey’s leg. But in the official film of the race it looked as though his back legs went from under him. “He screwed and went one way, and I was left travelling in the opposite direction,” Lees said later. Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32564, 25 March 1971, Page 8
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