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Looking for luck: A pair of serious spectators focus binoculars on the thoroughbreds in the 131st Queen's Plate at Woodbine yesterday
Looking for luck: A pair of serious spectators focus binoculars on the thoroughbreds in the 131st Queen's Plate at Woodbine yesterday

Looking for luck: A pair of serious spectators focus binoculars on the thoroughbreds in the 131st Queen's Plate at Woodbine yesterday

Date7/8/1990
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Object NumberTSPA_0003853F
Looking for luck: A pair of serious spectators focus binoculars on the thoroughbreds in the 131st Queen's Plate at Woodbine yesterday
Looking for luck: A pair of serious spectators focus binoculars on the thoroughbreds in the 131st Queen's Plate at Woodbine yesterday
Spremo, Boris
7/8/1990
Practised eyes: Joy and Clive Goodwin, authors of A Bird-Watching Guide to Ontario, focus their telescope and binoculars so they won't miss any of the 1,000 plumages familiar to the Metro area
Practised eyes: Joy and Clive Goodwin, authors of A Bird-Watching Guide to Ontario, focus their telescope and binoculars so they won't miss any of the 1,000 plumages familiar to the Metro area
Stuparyk, Michael
5/12/1983
In the chilly early-morning gloom at Woodbine, horsemen get their thoroughbreds into shape for the start of the season Sunday at Greenwood
In the chilly early-morning gloom at Woodbine, horsemen get their thoroughbreds into shape for the start of the season Sunday at Greenwood
Goode, Jeff
3/15/1989
Papal peek, Not to be denied a close-up look of her church's leader, one nun brought a pair of binoculars to view the Mass spectacular, celebrated before more than 5000,000 people
Papal peek, Not to be denied a close-up look of her church's leader, one nun brought a pair of binoculars to view the Mass spectacular, celebrated before more than 5000,000 people
John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005
9/16/1984
Compact communicators: Resembling a pair of oversized binoculars, the laser link-up equipment is small and highly portable
Compact communicators: Resembling a pair of oversized binoculars, the laser link-up equipment is small and highly portable
Mahler, John
7/2/1981
New outlook: CNIB vision rehabilitation nurse Elaine Taylor adjusts a pair of special binoculars designed to enhance 83-year-old Janet Morgan's sight
New outlook: CNIB vision rehabilitation nurse Elaine Taylor adjusts a pair of special binoculars designed to enhance 83-year-old Janet Morgan's sight
Spremo, Boris
1/31/1991
It's pretty cold work for horses and jockeys down by the lake at Greenwood, but the long season is nearly at an end for the thoroughbreds. Last day of(...)
It's pretty cold work for horses and jockeys down by the lake at Greenwood, but the long season is nearly at an end for the thoroughbreds. Last day of(...)
Bull, Ron
12/1/1988
Clear the track, thoroughbreds are on
Clear the track, thoroughbreds are on
Goode, Jeff
3/24/1998
Call to the post: Bugler Jim Ahrens calls the horses to the post for yesterday's 129th running of the crown jewel of Canadian thoroughbred racing - The Queen's Plate
Call to the post: Bugler Jim Ahrens calls the horses to the post for yesterday's 129th running of the crown jewel of Canadian thoroughbred racing - The Queen's Plate
Goode, Jeff
7/10/1988
He talks of love at Toronto's first love-in that attracted between 4,000 and 5,000 persons, many of them simply spectators, to Queen's Park yesterday (...)
He talks of love at Toronto's first love-in that attracted between 4,000 and 5,000 persons, many of them simply spectators, to Queen's Park yesterday (...)
Goode, Jeff
5/22/1967
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Bain were among the earliest arrivals. Mr. Bain, with binoculars in hand, is M.F.H. at Eglinton Hunt club
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Bain were among the earliest arrivals. Mr. Bain, with binoculars in hand, is M.F.H. at Eglinton Hunt club
Bain, H Rupert
5/22/1937
Avid watcher: Tom Sand uses binoculars to watch the helicopter rescue from the safety of the Lake Simcoe shoreline in Innisfil Township
Avid watcher: Tom Sand uses binoculars to watch the helicopter rescue from the safety of the Lake Simcoe shoreline in Innisfil Township
Stawicki, Andrew
1/8/1989