Word: benalla
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...Blahniks. The daughter-in-law of Leibovitz, a Picasso-like modern master, she has come to value a work that has miraculously found its way into the hands of Boone's neighbor. But nothing is what it seems: Manhattan-accented Marlene is in fact a trucker's daughter from Benalla, in Victoria's Ned Kelly country, and the painting's contested authenticity will drag the smitten Boone and his "gorgeous thief" all the way to New York via Tokyo. Supplying comic verve is the book's sometime narrator "Slow Bones" Hugh, Boone's 100-kg idiot-savant brother. Wandering city...
...Victorian country race meet just three years ago. Rob Childs was there that day, but he remembers only her odd name - concocted from the first two letters of the Christian names of five of owner Tony Santic's female staffers. "When you see them running their maiden at Benalla and coming fourth, you don't put them down as one to watch," says Childs. But Boss easily recalls the first time he rode Makybe, at a track-work session one morning in 2003. The sense that here was something special was almost instantaneous. "It was like getting...
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