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Sport, 1846

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Petersham Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 1 August 1846 · page 2

WENDING our way down George-street on Wednesday morning, the first prognostics of a race meeting being on the " tapis" met us in the prpcession of some six or eight…

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The Two Races in Ireland—celts and Saxons—physical Distinctions Between—historical Conviction of the Times "Commissioner." to the Editor of the Freeman.) Ferrybank, Waterford, Dec. 26th, 1845

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 1 August 1846 · page 4

SIR,—Though I have no claim on public attention either for literary acquirements or station, I beg of you to peruse what I have written in reply to certain assertions lately made concerning the stature…

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News From the Interior. (From our Correspondent.) Port Macquarie the Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 August 1846 · page 2

FIRST DAY…

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Port Macquarie Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 August 1846 · page 2

ON Tuesday, the 21st ultimo, the Annual Races commenced. For several days previous the town was visited by heavy showers. Early on Monday morning the masses of…

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Maitland Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 22 August 1846 · page 2

THE Annual Race Meeting in the abovenamed District—provision for which had been so effectively and judiciously made by the newly established, though flourishing…

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Maitland Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 22 August 1846 · page 1

STEWARDS.—Captain C. H. F. Smith Charles Reynolds, Robert Muir, and John Turner, Esqrs. THE Annual Race Meeing in the above named District—provision for which had…

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Sporting Reviewer. Races to Come

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 22 August 1846 · page 2

Five Dock..........17th and 18th Sept…

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Sporting Reviewer. Monday, August 24, 1846. Races to Come

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 22 August 1846 · page 1

Five Dock 17th and 18th Sept…

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Sporting Intelligence. Maitland Annual Races. (Abridged ftom the Maitland Mercury.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 August 1846 · page 3

THESE sports commenced on Wednesday last, and lasted through Friday and Saturday. The unpromising state of the weather on the first day tended to throw a damp over the usual…

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Maitland Annual Races

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 26 August 1846 · page 2

"A southerly wind and a cloudy sky," with heavy and continuous showers of rain, ushered in the all-important morning. The steamers of the previous day had brought large importations of bipeds of…

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Sporting Reviewer. Races to Come. Five Dock..... 17th and 18th Sept

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 29 August 1846 · page 2

IT is with no small degree of satisfaction that we have tracked Sir Charles Fitz Roy through the plain-sailing course which, in matters connected with the Sporting world,…

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Sporting Reviewer. Races to Come

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 12 September 1846 · page 2

Eive Dock..... 17th and 18th Sept…

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Five Dock Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 19 September 1846 · page 2

NOTWITHSTANDING the threatening appearance of the clouds, and the pelting warning experienced throughout the earlier part of the week, the morning of Thursday…

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Sporting Intelligence. Five-dock Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 September 1846 · page 2

YESTERDAY (the second and concluding day of these races) was by far more numerously attended than could have been expected, considering the extremely unpropitious state…

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Local Intelligence. Five Dock Races

The Australian · Saturday 19 September 1846 · page 3

The first day's sport of these annual races at Five Dock came off on Thursday last. The weather was remarkably fine, and the Course in capital order:—neither so dry as to choke…

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Sporting Reviewer. Races to Come

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 26 September 1846 · page 3

Peurith Annual Races[?] Draper Club Races [?] January, 1947…

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Windsor. Hawkesbury Regatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 October 1846 · page 2

PURSUANT to public notice a meeting was held at Coffey's Hotel, on Tuesday evening last, to arrange preliminaries for the forthcoming Regatta, to be held on the Hawkesbury River,…

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Penrith Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 10 October 1846 · page 2

THE entries for the above meeting, which will take place during the ensuing week, were made, as previously advertised, between the hours of 4 and 10 p.m., on…

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Sporting Reviewer. Races to Come

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 10 October 1846 · page 2

Peurith Annual Races.... 14th, 15th, & 16th Oct Draper' Club Races...... 1st January, 1847…

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Penrith Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 17 October 1846 · page 2

We are unable to subjoin more than a cursory account of the two first day's running, owing to the niggardliness of the stewards, who imagine that a…

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