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If there is more than one winning ticket, all winners will share in the mandatory jackpot payout scheduled for that day which could exceed $1 million.
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The $1 million guarantee payout on Derby Day will be offered providing the Jackpot Pick 5 pool is not won before then. If that happens, the Derby Day guarantee will be $250,000 to a sole ticket holder and it will not be a mandatory payout.
“We really wanted to make a big bang this year with the Derby”, said CEO Darren Dunn. “And what better way to do that than with an unprecedented $1 million guarantee for a player with a single winning ticket. With the excitement from this, it is quite possible that the pool could even be more!”
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When I got a newspaper cadetship in 1985, my mum scrapbooked all my clippings. She handed them over a couple of years ago and I forgot about them until the boredom of this week.
First byline – a yarn about a historic schooner washing ashore in a storm at Dromana. The front page about a Qantas flight plunging over Western Australia. There’s not many news stories because it was fast realised I was useless at them.
TV colossus David John Leckie died at age 70 on Tuesday following a decade-long battle with illness
Under Kerry Packer and Kerry Stokes, Leckie took the Seven and Nine networks to number one as CEO
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David Leckie made his name in an era when television network bosses were larger-than-life characters who could attract as much attention as on-screen stars.
Leckie was a colossus of the industry, stomping across and through its landscape like a dinosaur - which is what some detractors thought he was.
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OPINION: WHO WILL STARE DOWN PETER V’LANDYS?
July 18, 2021 10:18 am
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
As yet there has been no individual or collective reaction from shell-shocked
Victoria to the latest and most galling attack from
New South Wales.
Mike Symons is right. Maybe Victorian racing administrators are afraid of
Peter V’landys; afraid of what he will do next because with V’landys there are no boundaries, no respect for the greater good, no rules of engagement.
As former
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WON’T DO to hijack the
Melbourne spring carnival.
Maybe the polite powerbrokers of Victoria fear that by responding with vitriol and condemnation, the