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| | The Australian: Bookie cries foul for watered track [November 02, 2005] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Melbourne-based Michael Eskander, who joined other bookies in losing heavily when the favourite came home, said the VRC had "damaged the integrity" of the race by softening the Flemington track, a move that suited the winning mare. |
 | | I thought that she would have to be one of the greatest horses I'd ever seen to win that race, and in the end she proved that she was," Mr Graham said. |
 | | Another bookie, Simon Beasley, took a bet of $200,000 at $4.60 on Makybe Diva just before the race, but said the fact that two relative long-shots filled the minor placings absorbed much of his losses. |
| www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,17110964%255E2702,00.html (624 words) |
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