Hawkesbury Subscription Races
ON the last day of this meeting the course was more densely thronged than on either of the preceding ones, A report having got wind that a member of the swell mob…
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Sporting Intelligence. Yass Races
These races come off according to advertisement; the weather was lovely, the country brown, the women fair, and the horses terribly high-bred--as aristocratic as the most aristocratic Governor…
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The following statement has been carefully compiled from the most correct data, and although it only professes to be a proximate return, the omissions are of too…
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THE meeting on Tuesday evening at the Black Bull Inn was very numerously attended; the room was crowded to overflowing. For the Town Plate four horses were entered; for the…
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THIS day was warmer and finer than the previous one, and this circumstance caused a much larger assemblage of spectators. First race.—Hurdle race for £20, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. by Charles Dickens. Bradbury and Evans, London: 1845
IF this climate of ours had only been sunny and dry, instead o cold and rainy, we very much doubt whether Mr. Dickens would ever have achieved the high position in literature which he now enjoys. He is so peculiar a writer of home life, a…
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[?] sports commence on Wednesday [?] and if the weather continues to [?]main as fine as at present, a more [?]essful and spirited meeting is calculated…
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THIS evening the Grand Race Dinner is to come off, at which Captain Apperly, of the H. E. I. C., is to preside. The gathering of the sporting fraternity will, on this occasion…
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The dinner, as was announced, came off on Tuesday evening, at the Royal Hotel, when about a hundred of the choice turfites sat down to clear "the courses." Captain Apperley, of…
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THE attendance yesterday was very limited, and the only race which was fixed for that day was for the Squatters' Purse of fifty sovereigns, with a sweepstakes of three sovereigns…
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These Races commenced on Wednesday last, and were numerously attended, the weather being remarkably fine. The racing generally was pretty good. The following was the result of the various…
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The second day's gathering was rather thin—nothing of a very attractive character being set down in bill of fare. The only race for contest was for the Squatters'…
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YESTERDAY the Homebush races terminated for the season. The attendance was more numerous than on either Wednesday or Thursday. Among those present yesterday were His…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Regatta of Life Boats. (From the Nautical Magazine for January.)
THE following interesting experiments were made in Yarmouth Roads in the course of last summer. We frequently hear of regattas of yachts and such vessels on our coasts, but it is…
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AFTER a rapid [?] from the flat (not flats) of Campbellfield lo the luxurious and fertile, though ai this season rayther frigid, Plains of Bathurst, our Racing Reporter…
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THE only account which we have beer able to obtain of this meeting is sb vague and imperfect as to warrant its exclusion from the. columns of a Sporting Journal…
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THE past week has been a busy one for the good folks of this town; the arrival of the swells from the interior to witness the spot was constant and rapid, every available bit…
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A report of this Meeting, at which there was good sport, although late in appearing in our journal, may not be unwelcome to our readers…
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THE Braidwood Races came off, according to advertisement, on the 7th and 9tli July, and although the weather.at this season of the year was fine as the lovers of the turf…
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