Tylden
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Brigades battle burn-offs
Fire brigades across the region have been kept busy bringing escaped fires under control over the past fortnight. In one incident last Friday morning, a contract slasher working to create a fire break sparked a grassfire at Baringhup when the equipment struck granite. Baringhup Fire Brigade captain Brendan McKnight said striking granite was almost 100…
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Makybe Diva’s local girl
Super mare, three-time Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva gave birth to a filly early Friday morning. And dad is a local lad, one of Australia’s pre-eminent stallions named Written Tycoon who stands at Woodside Park stud at Tylden. Makybe Diva dropped her foal – the ninth for the 19-year-old mare – at Vinery Stud in…