The New Paper, 30 January 2000

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  • 570 2  -  Second incident in two years, says duty officer SI A PLANE SKIPS AND OVERSHOOTS RUNWAY C n^3 By Lo Tien Yin A SINGAPORE AIRLINES plane landing in heavy rain in Kuching International Airport yesterday skidded a full basketball court length past the end of the runway,
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  • [NEWS]
    • 856 4  -  Last week, in our feature, The Handphone Menace (Episode One), we asked readers to send in their suggestions on how to deal with this growing nuisance in cinemas. This week, the people strike back with 135 replies. ERNESTLUIS presents Episode Two A YOUTH, accused of ganging up
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    • 256 4 FRUSTRATION was evident in every letter The New Paper on Sunday received. The handphone menaces were called everything from "microwave-nuked brains" to "half-fried brains who have no shame". An angry few said they spent sleepless nights racking their brains for answers. Some ideas came
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    • 761 5 THE HANDPHONE MENACE: WHAT READERS SAY MS SERENE TAN, 22, STUDENT: Reading about this menace really tweaks a raw nerve in me. But, perhaps, what is more frustrating is that somewhere out there, sits the protagonist... with his coffee and a copy of The
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    • 76 4 Calling all handphone menaces K-RRING! Hello! All you handphone menaces out there...give us your views on why you choose to keep your phones on in the cinemas and irritate everyone else. Five callers will be picked to win a package each from The New Paper on Sunday comprising, a T-shirt,
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  • [NEWS]
    • 1010 7  -  By Ernest Luis THE scene is set in Toa Payoh Interchange, where there's a long snaking queueSounds familiar? A reporter asks a man in the queue: "Excuse me, sir, why are you queueing?" He replies: "I'm queueing for Hello Kitty and Dear Daniel condoms."
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    • 198 8 Danger up close THA8 HOSPITAL HOSTAGE DRAMAB The ground shook with each explosion. The crack of machine guns sent journalists diving for cover. When covering a tense situation, instinct becomes your best friend. The New Paper on Sunday team JONATHAN CHOO (photographer), KELVIN CHAN (artist) and MELVIN SINGH (correspondent) relives
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    • 448 9  -  By Chua Wei Yng READY, Steady, Get Wed, Go! And with that, 80 blushing virginal white-gowned women hitched up their wedding gowns and ran down Orchard Road Mall yesterday. No portrait of a lady, these were 80 sporting fake brides out to publicise a movie opening here soon.
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    • 325 10 THE MP was in his party office in Cheltenham, England, holding a meet-the-people session. Anyone was free to walk in to talk to the jovial, football loving MP. It was a busy Friday afternoon. Suddenly, a man stormed in brandishing a samurai sword.
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    • 131 10 THIS is the latest Swatch statement: The Beat Aluminium. Launched on Friday at the Swatch shop at the Heeren, it attracted more than 800 people. As part of the event, some of them won the Beat Aluminium watches. Now here's your chance to win one. Just
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    • 458 10 PruCash Hong Bao A gift that year after year This Lunar New Year, when your child says "GongXi Fa Cai...Hong Bao Yi Ge Lai!", you'll have the perfect red packet for him or her PruCash Hong Bao a special savings plan that gives your child a big Hong Bao, every
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  • 914 11  -  [EXPAT] BY Abhijit Nag IT HAS been 11 years since I arrived here from India with just a suitcase and a lot of dreams. The baggage is accumulating, the dreams showing wear and tear. However, I still can't forget my first home a rented fiat
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    • 98 11 V-DAY is coming. What art your plans? How are you planning to celebrate with that special someone? Are there enough places for you to go without bumping into someone you know? Is thin your first V-Day here? Share with us your thoughts. You can write, e-mail or call us at
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  • [@A GLANCE]
    • 237 12 A PORTABLE yet affordable medical benefits scheme? The labour movement believes this is possible. Their proposal: Put money earmarked for employees' outpatient and hospitalisation expenses into workers' Medisave accounts. This way, the firms' annual budget for these medical benefits which staff cannot take away when they leave
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    • 130 12 Lost girl found after 9 y ears in house HIDDEN IN HOUSE: a young girl apent nlne years hidden In this house In Jepen. She hed dleeppeered on her way home from school nine yeers ago and has now been found living with a man In a houae she had
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    • 139 12 EN£>us] VISITING Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he had cancelled plans to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos after organisers reconsidered their decision to invite him as a keynote speaker. "Initially I was invited to speak as a keynote speaker which
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    • 82 12 TORTOISE TREAT: Have you seen a tortoise that looks like an alligator? Or one that resembles a snake? Check them out at Marina Square #03-323. The exhibition is on until Feb 20, between noon and 10pm. Tickets cost $3. SURFS UP!: Watch US star Kevin Pritchard and
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    • 96 12 tnnHLv] A US-based researcher who was detained in China for nearly six months on charges of smuggling state secrets has been released. Yesterday, Song Yongyi, a librarian at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, took a flight back to the US. Mr Song, an authority on the Cultural Revolution,
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    • 92 12 INDONESIA has described calls for the UN to set up an international human rights tribunal with powers to try and sentence those accused of atrocities in East Timor as "totally unacceptable". The call came from a UN-appointed commission which visited East Timor and concluded that the Indonesian
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    • 100 12 AN undisclosed number of school children in Malaysia are still not in school. This is because their parents insist on waiting for the outcome of their appeals to be transferred to a school of their choke, the Education Ministry said. Although the new school term started on
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    • 98 12 AUCTION your car off on the Internet. Came March or April, you will be able to do so on an Internet auction system, CarAuc International. The parties behind CarAuc are listed Singapore Computer Systems and members ofthe Singapore Secondhand Motor Vehicle Dealers' Association. Car owners can call
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    • 50 12 believes people should to choose their oKKtiwoument, Human Resources Administration's Business Link has decided not to include the Psychic Network as one qfits participating employers. Mr Jason Turner, commissioner of New York City's Human Resources Administration on why they will stop recruiting welfare recipients as telephone psychics
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    • 84 12 WORKBOOKS have gone online. Students in 10 primary and secondary schools will soon do their science homework on the computer, using online workbooks. Their teachers can design lessons online and tailor them to suit the abilities of different children. The schools, in the eastern part of Singapore, are
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    • 92 12 HOME-SCHOOLING could hit Thailand in a big way. It is an educational system in which parents teach children mostly at home. The system could come into practice on a large scale, after an experimental trial period supervised by the Office of the Private Education Commission, reports The Nation.
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    • 92 12 THE Police Coast Guard has bought 20 newly high-speed patrol boat which can go at up to 40 knots. The new boats will help the Coast Guard battle smugglers and illegal immigrants. The 20 include two command boats which are slightly larger. The boats were custom-built by
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 54 12 Cloudy and windy. Occasional showers are expected in the morning and afternoon. ?V jSt north Showars sunrise 7:16 om west Showers sunset 7:20 pm central Showers moon rise 2.09 om south Showers "»oon set 2.28 pm ■■■■■IB minmum 22 first tide 2.4 m: 5:39 om moximum 29 C second tide.....
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  • [THE WEEK]
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      34 13 Dennis Foo Executive Director Europa/ABR Group Every Sunday, we invite a personality to comment on the past week's news. Today, Dennis Foo, Executive Director of the Europa/ABR Group gives us his views
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    • 758 13 JOURNALISTS can make you, break you* re-invent you, and even make you hotter than Hello Kitty and Dear Daniel. That's the might the Press wields and if you don't believe that, you probably still believe in the tooth fairy. In choosing to write about my
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  • [NEWS]
    • 408 14 Wire services. IT started mildly like the protests at World Trade Organisation meetings in Seattle last month. And then it, too, got violent. Windows at a McDonald's hamburger outlet were smashed. And one policeman lay injured. This time the incident was at a high-level summit
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    • 333 15 OR INTFRVIFWS OF THE FUTURF OOPs, spilt coffee on the trousers just before the job interview. It may not seem such a "disaster" to job-seekers of the future. Not when video-conference interviews are commonplace. Much easier to hide that coffee stain when the would-be employers
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  • [Feature]
    • 1036 17 The movie Titanic made him the world's most popular heart-throb. But fame came with a price and it took Leonardo PiCaprio almost two years to figure out what he wanted to do next YOU could say that Leonardo DiCaprio had been adrift on the
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    • 144 17 LEONARDO DiCaprio grew up in an artsy environment in Los Feliz, a hilly neighbourhood near Hollywood. His mother, a German refugee, and his father, an Italian-American free-spirited underground comics writer, exposed him to a "whole '70s hippie generation". "I grew up
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  • 720 18  -  pHngleColumn by Heather McKinnon heatherm@sph.com.sg SOMETIMES you'd think the whole of Sydney was a singles' pick-up joint. You name a pub, any pub, to meet friends. "Oh, no, we can't go there," a friend will say."That'B a dry cleaner's." Dry cleaner's? "Yes, where secretary types go to
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  • 778 20  - Husband or not, let's keep our apart SoSueMe I SUZANNE WALKER WRITES A FORNIGHTLY COLUMN by Suzanne Walker I'VE a girlfriend who's an excellent divorce lawyer. She slogged five years with her firm until the day they told her she was to be made a partner. It was then she
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    569 21  -  ...before it's too late Fr i T LIM KAY TONQ WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY C 0 L by Lim Kay Tong I'M not quite sure why it works this way. A husband decides to bolt, leaving his wife to discover that their joint accounts are empty. Not only that,
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  • 1036 22  -  ET ®l FUJIFILM /enue I 00 ■J We take a break from the usual travel piece and ask Singapore celebrities where their favourite chill-out destinations are and what they absolutely have to take with them on their holiday Edited by Crispina Robert crispina@sph.com.sg U FORMER DEEJAY PAMELA
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    700 23  -  jcookiejar] pl ce to By Trudy Lim trudy@sph.com.sg PETE and Pepe love people watching on Orchard Road. Many pretty faces catch their eyes. Each face seems perfect, and perfectly made up. Is there really a perfect face? And can you achieve it quickly, easily and without having to
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  • [Aggie] MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
    • 167 25 CAN YOU HELP? If you think you can help with soma useful advice, write or fax to Aggie by Wednesday. The best letter will be published next week. The writer of the best reply will receive a special ©T-shirt and a New Paper
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    • 121 25 Last week's letter: MISERABLE is a 16-year-old girl who has fallen for a guy seven years older. Her parents liked this guy, who also became her brother's best buddy. But things changed when her friend and brother, who were riding together on a motorcycle, had an
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    • 150 25 Reader's reply: IF I were you, I would go with my brother to meet the fnend, inspite of mum's warning. I would have acted on the situation rather than reacted to it. And if he has come out of the trauma of loosing his parents and finds
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    • 151 25 I AM 71 years old and have four children, 18 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. I share the feelings of this girl, even though she is just 16 years old. But at her age, she should be concentrating on her education rather than feel burdened with
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    • 451 26 MY friend is getting a divorce from her husband because of her maid. She found out that he is sleeping with her. They are a very nice couple and it*s sad that they are going to get a divorce. Her husband Is also a nice
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    • 396 26 I BROKE up with my steady, but I cannot forget him. Although I was the one who asked for the break, it doesn't mean that I don't love him anymore. Once, I asked my friend to ask him to "patch up" with me,
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    • 295 26 [pubertyJ Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues IF I have sex with one Q person, then after a period of time have sex with another, will I get Aids? What are the symptoms of Aids? Curious If both of the persons
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    • 160 26 I AM 14.1 would like to Qknow if kissing for a long period of time will lead to pregnancy. I have also missed my menstruation for nine consecutive months. What should I do? I don't wish to consult a doctor because it means money. Blue
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    • 44 26 CALL US If you need advice on matters of the heart or sex issues, write to: Aggie, The New Paper, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5 Or fax; 737-5375. e-mail: npops@sph.com.sg (please markAggie) or call 1900-912-0007 (calls cost 30 cents a minute).
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  • Article, Illustration
    303 27 DELIGHTFULLY DIFFERENT PRODUCED BY NORTHERN TERRITORY TOURIST COMMISSION Which is Australia's closest city to Singapore? It's Darwin, the capital of Australia's vast Northern Territory, only fours hours from Singapore. If this was a surprise to you, no worries, there's many more still to come... The Asian Connection Evidence of
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    • 212 27 Faet B X SA(UIC) Tours What Darwin, capital of Australia's Northern Territory Where 4 hrs daily flight from Singapore by Qantas. Royal Brunei Airlines Malaysia Airlines flies twice weekly to Darwin. When All tours mentioned are conducted daily from Darwin Where to stay There are at least 41 hotels in
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 1016 28 [TVtodayj -r~f— Turn The Avengers City of Glass Heineken Australian Classic Cinemax(Ch 59), 9pm Variety Vision I (Ch 55), 10 pm (Live) Two secret agents try to stop a mad Two lovers meet again after 20 years Sports City, 1.30 pm T n scientist who tries to take control of
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  • [Weired] SUSHI FOR TECHNO HIPSTERS
    • 311 29  -  www.adcritic.com By Yong Shu Hoong shyong66@shotmail.com AS a popular saying goes, everyone's a critic. Aside from movies, music and books, even commercials that you watch on TV now come under scrutiny. According to explanatory notes posted on The Ad Critic,
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      220 29 Move over, Gurmit. HERE'S an online sanctuary for you, if you want to keep yourself entertained on a restless Saturday night. Check out Entertaindom, a website laden with entertainment news and gossip (courtesy of Entertainment Weekly) and community services (like bulletin board and chat). Register yourself at www.entertaindom.com and
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    • 206 29 [chatterbox] m IS it a little too early to look back at the techno '90s with fondness? Anyway, circulating via e-mail is this list entitled 10 signs that you've had too much of the '90s: You try to enter your password on
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    • 85 30  -  [seen Heard] SHARP r@odds THE MOVIE Edited by Ernest Luis emest@sph.com.sg Based on the best-selling novel by John Irving, the movie Is about Homer Wells who is raised and mentored by his orphanage's doctor, Dr Larch. But the doctor never gives Homer rules to live by.
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    • 261 30  -  by DEMISE CHONG IT has all the makings of a perfect sob story. ■tbi i Orphans sick, small and miffly, desperate pregnant women having abortions, and a dirty secret between a poor African-American father and his daughter. The hero Homer Wells is told
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    • 69 31 A young orphan Curly, after another orphan was adopted: "Nobody's ever asked for me." Homer (Tobey Maguire): "Nobody's special enough.** Buster (orphan boy): "Sometimes, I want to meet my parents... just so I can Idll them.** Dr Larch (Michad Caine) to the orphans tucked in bed: "Good night, you Princes
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    • 218 31  -  by ERNEST LUIS UNLIKE Denise, The Cider House Rules went down well with me. Because I found the movie's basic theme very interesting. Especially when orphan Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire) reads a line from Charles Dickens' David Copperfield. "Whether I shall turn out to be
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    • 225 31 Roger Ebert in his online review; "Why is then such a muddle about the movie's subject? I left the theatre wondering what the movie thought It was about and was unable to say. The Cider House Rules Is olten absorbing or enchanting in Its parts. Michael Caine's performance
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    • 235 31  -  I with Jessica Leow i Issues Korn (Epic) ADVENTUROUS as I am in music, I draw the line at musicians whose repertoire revolves around *the world stinks', 'you stink', and 'I really hate myself. Kom makes a lot of noise, but it is
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 446 32 CALL: 873-3333 f A I Lwciuom 24-hour subscription sales hotline movies laughs today ThoAvongors today Moscow on tho Hudson 9pm This remake of the cult British TV Bpm Soviet and American cultures dash series retains all the elements that when a Russian drcus performer made the original so popular—the defects
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  • Page 40 Miscellaneous
    • 865 40 C 3 laygroundl f a im f DaveAng dave@sph.com.sg Across Kamnapa Lama, i 5..... years old 3. Among those trapped in the South Pole were French, Silly American and, parachutists 5. You've spelt Anna Girlfriend: And are you sure you love Koumikova correctly, now spell meand no one else? W,
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    • 292 41 A SPECIAL FEATURE Valentine's Day B|^ Or rather,; how deep are a guy's pockets when it comes to showing a girl she's the love of his life cm thefirst Valentine's Day of the brand new millennium Starting here 9 gift hints for all types —from sugar daddies to cheapskates! Ifvcl
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    • 247 42 He: SNAG What: The Sensitive New Age Guy goes for something sensual. Like spa treatments at Spa Esprit in Holland Village. The great thing is, he can enjoy treatments there too. At the day spa, you can try such exotic treats as the hot stones massage, which uses actual heated
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    • 652 44 Valentine's Day Love bites New East-Westfusion cooking, unusual Finnish dishes and a cosy picnic basket all designed to tickle your VDate's foodie fancies! the love of your Chinese, Japanese and West- j For main courses, there's life and tickle his or her ern cuisines and cooking j wok-charred salmon in
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    • 299 49 PICK OF THE DAY Worth considering now that he has struck the winning chord again. Won with consummate ease over 1,700 m last week with apprentice BN Shahrul aboard. That would serve as a good lead-up for today's stamina test over 2,000 m. He
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    • 761 49 Race 1 Maiden 1400n^ 10 SPHRnZER 57 (28-10) (8) 1 1 1 (408) 9 STAR POWER 57 (37-12) *NMM4UM (11) 5 2 2 (451) 4 ENTRAPMENT 57 (141-37) *R Kalltazan (4) 7 4 3 (468) 6 HERO LEGENO 57 (35-11) S Sam (1) 6 5 4
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    • 795 50 RACE 1: COOL SILVER jumped awkwardly out, resulting in TUIS ALL ROUND having to steady. GET A WIN was slow into stride. Near the 1,300m, KING MAKER shifted out onto STAR POWER. Near the 1,000m, SPHRITZER and COLLEGE MASTER came together. Near the 900m,
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    • 845 51 3 PROFIOENT 56 c 54.5 (11-7) HfMrln (5) 1 1 1 (448) 4 SUSPICIOUS MINDS 56 C 53.5 (32-12) TOnfl (4) 4 3 2 (484) 2 ORIENTAL FORTUNE 56 (56-21) .ODotoun (1) 3 4 3 (458) 5 CORAL VIEW 55 (32-13) JINnton (3)
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    • 465 51 5 SPECIAL JESTER 52.5 (15-6) PauiHarvty (3) 1 1 ELLENDALE 56 (11-6) PatorKnuckay (6) 2 2 SUCCESS BAY 54.5 (39-10) DanWStaack (2) 3 Alao ran: ZOLOTO Damian Millar, SALVADO Marie Zahra, BROCKTS GAMBLE Troy Jackman, AIM STRAIGHT Patrick Caitery, CREDIT REFERENCE J Brown, DON 7 TELL
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