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Sport, 1850

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Cricket Match Between the Mary-le-bone and Australian Clubs

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 23 March 1850 · page 4

This match which was played last Monday week excited considerable interest, the Mary-le-bones being in favour by their winning a match against the Currency Club at the conclusion of last season. The Australians are a new club, but have played…

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Cricket

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 30 March 1850 · page 2

SYDNEY.—A match will be played on Easter Monday, on the Hyde Park ground, between eleven of the Mary-le-Bono and eleven of the Currency Clubs. As both sides are picked, a…

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Launceston Races. (Abridged from the Cornwall Chronicle.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 30 March 1850 · page 2

These races came off on the 20th 27th, and 28th February. The Launceston St. Leger of £20 each, with £40 added, one mile and a half, was won by Mr. Rose's Bay Middleton, beating…

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The Maneroo Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 April 1850 · page 2

Came off on the 19th, 20th, and 2lst instant, on the malden course, midway between Cooma and Reid's Flats, about three miles distant from either. No spot could have been designed by…

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Camden and Narellan Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 April 1850 · page 2

The sporting inhabitants of the districts of Camden and Narellan were up betimes on Monday morning, preparing themselves and naga for the races, and about 11 o'clock the road was…

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Colonial Race Meetings. Ovens River Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 April 1850 · page 1

Long before the appointed time for starting, the course was thronged with anxious spectators to witness the sports, which they were led to suppose would be excellent, from the knowledge…

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Goulburn Races. (Abridged from the Goulburn Herald)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1850 · page 2

THESE races, which commenced on the 2nd and ended on the 4th April, drew together a larger and better assemblage of horses than any previous meeting at Goulburn. The stewards…

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Sporting Intelligence. Windsor Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 April 1850 · page 3

WEDNESDAY, the 10th instant, heralded the meeting of the beautiful and the gay to witness the Hawkesbury Turf Races. Youth and beauty attended, from the joyous maiden of…

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Hawkesbury Turf Club Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 13 April 1850 · page 2

These races commenced on Wednesday, and taking them throughout, went off as successfully, if not more so than any of their predecessors. The weather was remarkably fine, the course in…

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Goulburn Races. First Day—tuesday, April 3

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 13 April 1850 · page 1

At ten minutes past twelve the horses drew up to start for The Goulburn Plate of Fifty Sovereigns, for all horses, carrying weight for age; heats, twice…

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Sporting Intelligence. Windsor Races. Third Day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 April 1850 · page 3

INNKEEPERS' PURSE.—The horses entered for the first race were. Heki, Humming Bird, and Plover. All three started — Heki was the winner after two heats, in which there was very…

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Warnambool Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 20 April 1850 · page 2

These sports came of on the 2nd and 3rd April, and thus terminated. FIRST DAY. Town Plate of 25 sovs., for all horses and…

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Homebush Races. 1850. STEWARDS

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 27 April 1850 · page 4

William Foster, Esq. Captain Fitz Roy, R. A. Arthur T. Holroyd, Esq. CLERK OF THE COURSE…

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Yass Races. From a Correspondent of the Goulburn Herald

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 27 April 1850 · page 1

The Annual Meet for the Yass District, which excited such extraordinary interest this year, owing to the extreme depression of the times and the gloomy prospects of the colony—taken…

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Cricket

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 4 May 1850 · page 2

A match was played on Tuesday, on the Hyde Park Cricket Ground, between eleven of the Pandora and eleven of the Kent Clubs. The following is the score:—Pandora—first innings,…

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Gundagai Races. (Abridged from Goulburn Herald.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 11 May 1850 · page 1

Our Annual Meet came off with great eclat on the 23rd, 24th and 25th April. There was a strong master of the inhabitants of the District present, and every one appeared to feel the atmost…

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Cricket

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 25 May 1850 · page 2

SINGLE WICKET.—A most interesting match was played on the Hyde Park Ground, between Harry Hilliard of the Currency and T. Rowley of the Marylebone Club. Hilliard gave his…

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Berrima Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 25 May 1850 · page 2

The above races took place on the Bendooly Race-course, on Monday, the 29th, and Tuesday, the 21st, and were both numerously and respectably attended, the weather on both days being…

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Sporting Intelligence. Bendooley Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 May 1850 · page 2

THESE races, according to the advertisement, came off on the Bendooley Course, near Berrima, on Monday and Tuesday last, the 20th and 21st instant; and considering that the…

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Skate Racing

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 1 June 1850 · page 1

If the reader knows not Hindelopea, he must not search for the words in a geographical dictionary, for, as far as the experience of the writer goes, it is not to be found in any one…

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