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Stakes Day

Why wear the fox hat at the Oaks, I asked?

Crikey / Friday, 6 November 2009

When Bart’s filly swooped down that long Flemington straight to claim the Group One fillies’ prize, no wonder the Oaks Day crowd stood and cheered, writes TP Maher: They’d taken the poisonous short odds quoted by those legalised vampires in the betting ring and they were happy.