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Booklet - Agua Caliente Jockey Club, Third Annual Winter Season, 1931-1932
Reg. No: SH 990803
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- Summary:
- Alternative Name(s): Program
The booklet was issued by the Agua Caliente Jockey Club to promote the 1931-1932 racing season, including the running of the Agua Caliente Handicap in March, 1932, which was Phar Lap's last race. It belonged to the family of his trainer Harry Telford family, and was amongst a number of items donated to the museum by them in the 1990s. - Description:
- Rectangular booklet, consisting of twenty seven double sided glossy pages, printed on both sides with extensive black text, photographs and diagrams. The pages are bound with two glossy paper covers by three metal staples. In later years the binding has been reinforced with sewn red thread.
The booklet has been annotated on several pages, including a reference of Phar Lap races at Agua Caliente on page 5. Walter Dupee, one of the Agua Caliente Jockey Club Board of Governors, has signed the booklet on page 3. - Acquisition Information:
- Tax Donation from Mrs Nancy Telford, 1999
- Acknowledgement:
- Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
| Discipline: | History |
| Dimensions: | 150 mm (Height), 240 mm (Width) |
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| Tagged with: | horse racing, racing industry, horses, racecourses, social clubs, sporting clubs |
| Themes this item is part of: | Harry Telford, Race Horse Owner & Trainer (1877-1960), Phar Lap, Champion Race Horse (1926-1932), David Davis, Entrepreneur & Race Horse Owner, Leisure Collection, Phar Lap in America, 1932, Phar Lap Collection |
| Primary Classification: | SPORT |
| Secondary Classification: | Horse Racing |
| Tertiary Classification: | race programs |
| Inscriptions: | Printed on front cover: Total Stake and Purse Distribution Approximately/ One Million Dollars/ Third Annual/ Winter/ Season/ 1931 - 1932/ Thanksgiving/ day/ to/ March/ Twenty-seventh/ Nineteen Thirty-two/ Twenty-three/ Stake/ Events/ Winner/ Agua Caliente/ Handicap/ Guaranteed/ $100,000/ JAMES N. CROFTON/ President/ Mike Hall, Jockey O'Donnell up, Winner of the 1931 Agua Caliente Handicap. Hand signed in ink on page three: W.H. Dupee/ El Cortez/ San Diego Hand written in pencil on top of page 5: Where Phar Lap races on Sunday |
| Publisher: | Agua Caliente Jockey Club, Agua Caliente, Tijuana, Mexico, 1931 |
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