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THE Paddling Puppies, Lay Down Sallys, Skinny Scullers and Lawful Foursome were among 18 teams of novice rowers from businesses around the Hunter who put their oars in the water yesterday to compete in a corporate rowing regatta at Berry Park, near Morpeth.

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Water dragons ... crews take to the oars during a practice for this weekend's dragon boat races at Darling Harbour as part of the Chinese New Year festivities.

They rowed slowly and silently, their heads down, their oars barely touching the water. They rowed past the jetty where the medallists were already telling their battle stories to the waiting media. They rowed into a little backwater at the end of the course and toward a bridge, where a..read more

Unlike with Seabiscuit, the gentle swish of oars or flapping spinnaker of the boat race was never heard in relation to Phar Lap. To avoid confusion, the turf dictionary of racing slang describes a boat race as ``an event to which the result was said to be prearranged".