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