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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Sport

Sport, 1864

25 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2

Braidwood Christmas Races

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Friday 1 January 1864 · page 2

THE usual Christmas Races passed off on Saturday and Monday. The programme was pretty good, the day fine, but the course was very dusty,…

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Araluen New Year’s Day Races First Day

The Araluen Star and Miners' Right · Saturday 2 January 1864 · page 2

The spirited equestrian tournament commenced, as advertised, yesterday. The sports were, all things considered, most excellent and animated, and the…

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Araluen New Year’s Races. Second Day

The Araluen Star and Miners' Right · Saturday 9 January 1864 · page 2

THE morning bad shown indications of it being a Very hot day, nevertheless there was a good attendance, quite as many as on the opening of…

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Bungendore Annual Races

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 2 March 1864 · page 2

These Races came off on Thursday and Friday last, the 25th and 26th ult. The whole of the entrances for the meeting having been made the…

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Bungendore Annual Races

The Golden Age · Thursday 3 March 1864 · page 2

THE day anxiously looked for among the sporting community of Bungendore, arrived on the morning of the 25th ult., when the road to the race…

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Telegraphic News. Wagga Wagga Races. Thursday. Second Day

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 23 March 1864 · page 3

First Race— The Murrumbidgee St. Leger, of 40 sovs. Mr. Byrnes’ [?] Bruneite 1 Second Race — The Ladies’…

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Mongaplowe Races. Monday, March 28

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 30 March 1864 · page 2

RACES came off for the first time on a new course near Mr. Bowland’s the “Travellers Home,” Narriga Road, on Easter Monday. A very…

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Corang Easter Races. Monday, March 28, 1864. [By Our Special Reporter.]

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 30 March 1864 · page 2

THE usual Easter Races came off on Monday last, on the Cor[?]ng Race-course. The weather was fine, and a very large number of both sexes of…

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Reidsdale Easter Races. Monday, March [?]

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1864 · page 3

THESE races came off on Monday last, March 28th, on the Reidsdale race-course. The weather which at all times is not the most wished for,…

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Reidsdale Easter Races. Monday, March 28

The Araluen Star and Miners' Right · Saturday 9 April 1864 · page 3

THESE races came off on Monday last March 28th, oh the Reidsdale racecourse. The weather which at all times is not the most wished for, was…

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Goulburn Races. First Day—tuesday, April 5

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1864 · page 3

First Race.—The Maiden Plate of £50 with a sweepstake of 3 so s, each added, for all horses that never won an advertised prize, at time of…

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Local and General News. Cricket Match. St. Vincent v. Little River

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 April 1864 · page 2

THE Sydney scribes talk a deal of the cricket mania which has prevailed in Sydney for some weeks, and which was only allayed by the departure…

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Bungendore. Cricket

The Golden Age · Thursday 5 May 1864 · page 2

A MATCH took place on Monday, May 2nd, between the United Club of Collector and Willeroo, and the Prince of Wales Club, Bungendore, ending in the defeat of the latter…

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Briadwood Annual Races

The Araluen Star and Miners' Right · Saturday 7 May 1864 · page 2

On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday next, these races will come off, The following is a list of the events FIRST DAY—MAY 11…

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Local and General News. the Races

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 11 May 1864 · page 2

THE Braidwood Annual Races commences this day. The largest number of horses known for many years will contest the various prizes. The…

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Braidwood Annual Races

The Araluen Star and Miners' Right · Saturday 14 May 1864 · page 2

These races came off on Wednesday, Thursday, and yesterday, The attendance was good, and the weather very fine. There was a strong muster of…

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Cricket. Queanbeyan and Bungendore Versus Gininderra

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 26 May 1864 · page 2

ON Wednesday (yesterday) this match, got up on only a day or so's notice, between eleven of Gininderra and twenty-two of the united clubs of Queanbeyan and Bungendore, was…

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Sketches by the Way. [Continued.] No. X.—the Bungendore Races

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 25 August 1864 · page 3

I LEFT the Dargles on the morning of the Bungendore races, with protestations of satisfaction and friendship on both sides. I had £10 in my pocket free of all drawbacks, after…

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Sketches by the Way. No. X.—the Bungendore Races. [Continued.]

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 1 September 1864 · page 3

As I was pensively wending my way back again in the direction of Queanbeyan—a light purse, or rather no purse at all, and a heavy heart are enough to make one walk pensively…

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Modern Racing and Racers

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 September 1864 · page 4

THE very best of our racehorses do not often survive the severity of early preparation beyond their third year. Let…

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