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Six Winners in a week from Shelbourne's Larry Eastman
Shelbourne ..(a disused school, some tennis courts, there was once a railway station) and the Eastman stables and track ...on the way to Marybrough from Bendigo has hit the headlines.
Six Winners this week from the stables of Larry and Lynette Eastman
Three Group Ones at Melton last Saturday, a double at Maryborough on Wednesday, and then off to Queensland for a Gold Coast Derby with Menin Gate ( below) and a second in the Oaks with Morton Plains last night.
Crombie-Former Vic and WA horse breaks all-time Yonkers Record 1:50.1 on halfmiler
Crombie A sets all-age Yonkers track record
Up first was Crombie A (Brian Sears, $5.60), who earned his place in the record book with the fastest mile ever in Westchester not involving plane, train or automobile. Leaving from post position No. 4 as the 9-5 favorite, Crombie A had no choice but to watch as Forty Five Red (George Brennan) threw down the gauntlet…as in :26.3, :54.2 and 1:21.4.
If Forty Five Red was done off those numbers, he didn't get the memo. Texican N (Eric Carlson) was closing ranks from a loose pocket, while Crombie A, floating off the cones from fourth in an understandably gapped-out field, was hitting his best stride.
Forty Five Red had a length-and-a-quarter lead into the lane, but the fractions were finally catching up with him. He hung tough, but faltered late. Crombie A ended up outgaming Texican N by three-quarters of a length in a life-best 1:50.1.