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To the best of my recollection. I was never much of a nautical man; that is to say, not particularly attracted to a seafaring life by the apocryphal dolights of mountainous waves,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AUSTRALIA AND ENGLAND. — This Anxiously looked-for contest will come off on the Hyde Park ground on Monday next (weather permitting) The wickets will be pitched precisely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday last the lovers of this noble game enjoyed one of the best treats they ever experienced on the Hyde Park ground, in a game of first-rate description, between eleven Europeans and eleven Natives of the Colony. The match was well Contested;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE annual meet of the Metropolitan Races commenced yesterday, and we are happy to say it was harbingered by as fine an autumn day as sportsmen could desire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE attendance of the public on the middle day of the meeting is never so great as on the first and last days, but owing to the continued emigration from Sydney to Ophir, the visitors…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE last day of the meeting has generally been looked upon as the day of the races; but in the present year it offered more than ordinary attraction, as the first Queen's Plate voted by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—You would oblige by informing somo friends of mine whether it is true that a wellknown sprig of nobility was seen dancing to the Fisherman's Hornpipe, on the Homebush…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EVERY thing had proceeded as well as possible at the races until Friday, when at the conclusion of one race, the weighing yard was so crowded, that the Secretary of the Jockey Club…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FIRST RACE.—The Brisbane Town Plate of thirty sovereigns, for all horses. Heats, one mile and a distance; entrance one sovereign. Mr. Perriman's b. g. Othello, (Cox).... 1 1…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE munificent bill of fare proffered to our acceptance in October next by the enterprising caterers for this annual favorite meeting, appears in our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are authorized to announce that it is in contemplation to invoke the spirit of the Parramatta Turf in October next, subsequent to the Drapers' Meeting. The gentlemen who have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is notorious that the second quarter of the present century has been more prolific of discoveries and improvements, extending over land and water, than any other-period of the same…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clarence River.......1st August. Illawarra Turf Club 12th, 13th, and 14th Aug. Mudgee...........12th. 13th, and 14th August. Drapers' Homebush 2nd and 3rd October…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence River........1st August. Illawarra Turf Club. 12th, 13th,and 14th Aug. Mudge..........12th, 13th, and 14th August. Maitland.......9th, 10th, and 11th Sept…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →These races came off as par advertisement on the 18th and 19th June. The weather proved most unpropitious: much rain having fallen during the previous week rendered the course…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE ROSE HILL STAKES of Three Sovs. each, with Twenty-five Says. added, for all horses. Three-year-olds and under, 10st: four ditto, 11st; five ditto and upwards, 12st;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The principal qualities of a good style of writing may be ranged under the following heads.—plainness, perspicuity, and conciseness. Of the former Felton remarks:—."This is the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →We beg to recpind our sporting friends that the entance for the Draper's Races will close on the 13th day of September next…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland............ 9th, 10th, and 11th Sept. Drapers' Homebush 2nd and 3rd October. Parramatta..............8th and 10th October. Illawarra Turf Club.. 14th, 15th, and 16th Oct…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland........9th, 10th. and 11th Sept. Drapers' Homebush 2nd and 3rd October. Parramatta...........8th and 10th October. Illawarra Turf Club..14th, 15th, and 16th Oct…
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