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purely on her oath that she did not know the result. Her honesty in this regard was noted by the fact the majority of the horses she backed were already known by the bookmaker to have been beaten. In return however the bookmakers always honoured the occasions where she selected horses they knew to have won. She also assigned her staff different colours, with the exception of green, which she despised, and would use the colours in place of their names when speaking to them or of them.
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would have one final runner, Cannobie Lee, who in 1960 refused at Becher's Brook on the second circuit. A different set of silks were used for the late Miss
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