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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Sport

Sport, 1856

6 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

Binalong. the Races

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 5 April 1856 · page 6

ACCORDING to advertisement, the races came off on the 24th and 25th ult. They had been eagerly looked forward to for some time by all persons interested in the old English…

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Goulburn Annual Races

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 5 April 1856 · page 4

THE sun shone gloriously last Tuesday morning, and gave a promise, which was fully realised, of a remarkably fine day. A great crowd of persons of all classes, ages, and both sexes,…

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Homebush Annual Metropolitan Races

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 31 May 1856 · page 5

These races came off last Wednesday under very auspicious circumstances, and a great crowd of persons of both sexes were present. We can only give a very brief report of the…

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Domestic Intelligence. the Turf. Queen's Birth-day Races

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 31 May 1856 · page 4

We had hoped that there would have been a tolerable muster on the Goulburn race course last Saturday, it having been publicly made known a week previously that several races…

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Colonial Intelligence. Sydney. Homebush Annual Races. Second Day

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1856 · page 3

FIRST RACE.—Publicans' Purse of 50 sovereigns, with a sweepstakes of 3 sovereigns each added, for all horses that have never won an advertised prize…

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The Doom of the Ancient Races of Ireland

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 16 August 1856 · page 2

TWO terrible calamities fell upon Ireland—famine and pestilence; and by these two dread ministers of God's great purposes, the Irish race were uprooted, and…

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