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The mobile barrier is usually a car or ute with two long arms, behind which the horses line up before moving to the starting line. The barrier may cover the entire track and in some cases the mobile can be ten horses wide. When the wings of the gate swing back, the starting vehicle speeds off, thus releasing the horses.
The Trial Islands are a group of islands located off the south-eastern tip of Vancouver Island off Victoria, part of the municipality of Oak Bay.The islands form the Trial Islands Ecological Reserve and entry outside designated zones is prohibited.
The New South Wales bred, Lawn Derby, racing un-hoppled, was the first pacer to break the two-minute barrier in Australia or New Zealand when he recorded 1:59.4 at the Addington track in New Zealand in 1938. [3] From these early stages, the sport has developed with top races and top horses from then right up to the present day.
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In September 2009 it was announced that the Trial Island Lighthouse would be automated to cut staffing costs. [8] [9] However, in 2012, the Minister for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Keith Ashfield, said in response to the Senate study Seeing the Light: Report on Staffed Lighthouses in Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia that lighthouses currently staffed would remain so, and that ...
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Sunday Island is a low-lying, sandy, 16.2 km 2 barrier island on the coast of Victoria, Australia. It is about 8 km long by 3 km wide and rises to a maximum height of no more than 15 m above mean sea level. It lies in Corner Inlet, South Gippsland, 4 km south-west of Port Albert and 215 km south-east of Melbourne.
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