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About Town: The Carleen quaddie and boom gates gone

The ‘Carleen quaddie’ Pakenham-based jockey Carleen Hefel is coming off a red-letter week. She single-handedly rode all four legs of the quaddie at Ballarat last Friday – all for Pakenham-based trainers. Three of the four are in the care of the training combination of Peter…

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