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Astley Cup founder’s 1909 record-setting motorcycle feat

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For the past 100 years, the name Laurence Astley has been associated with feats of sporting excellence in the Central West, as students from Dubbo, Orange and Bathurst high schools meet annually to contest the trophy he donated in 1923.

But a decade-and-a-half before the inaugural Astley Cup took place in Dubbo, Laurence Astley was making a name for himself in the relatively new sporting realm of m...


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