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In another portion of our columns will be found the running of The Oaks and the result of the Derby. We have since received the following particulars of the latter great turf…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE DERBY STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. for 3 year old; colts, 8st. 71bs.; fillies, 8st. 21b.; the second to receive 100 sovs., and the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Grand Stand was well and fashionably attended, and the throng, noise, and confusion in the betting enclosure scarcely inferior to the Derby Day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →By som e extraordinary aceident the account of this race meeting did not reach us in time for any earlier publication than the present. Our Madgee correspondent declares that he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY, the 9th, was the first day of our annual races. The day was fine, but a very strong wind from the westward blew all day, raising clouds of dust in the streets, and being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ist Race.—The Maitland Town Plate of £50, with a sweepstakes of £4 each added, for all horses; weight for age; heats, two miles the socond horse to receive £10 out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Earl of Bessborough Earl of Glassgow. Lord Stanley. Colonal Peel. Clerk of the Course and Starter—Mr W. Hibburd…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →1st Race— The Maitland Town Plats of £50, with a Sweepstakes of £4 each added, for all horses; weight for age; heats, two miles; the second horse to receive £10 out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SOME short time back, when, under the influence of the shock given to the community by the startling discovery of the existence of THE metal in our soil, we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THESE races commenced yesterday, and the fineness of the day and the promised excellence of the running, attracted a fashionable number of the elite of Sydney and the county. His…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday being the first day of the Drapers' Race Meeting, at an carly hour vehicles of all kinds and sizes were seen to take the direction of the Parramatta Road, conveying the sporting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tally-ho Stakes of Three Sovereigns cach, with Thirty Sovereigns added, for all horses; three miles, over nine leaps about three feet nine inches in height. Three-year-olds and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following are the entrances for these races: For the ROSE HILL STAKES.—S'asher, Almack, Emerald, and Sultan. For the Huna[?]-SOURRY STAKES.—Almack,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE annual return of these races is an event which is looked forward to with the greatest anxiety, not only by sporting men, but by the general community…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE attendance yesterday was extremely good. The Governor-General and his family, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, and. a large party of friends, arrived on the course…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE TALLY-HO STAKES of Three Sovs, each, with thirty sovs, added, for all horses; three miles, over nine leaps about 3 feet 9 inches in height. Three-year-olds and under, 9 st.; four ditto,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The above races came off on the Grafton racecourse on the 1st August. The weather was exceedingly fine, and the course very well attended. The brilliancy of the scene was considerably…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The first day's racing came off yesterday The ungenial state of the weather operated as a damper on the spirits of the sporting public, and the attendance was very thin, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →STEWARDS—Captain Fitz Roy, B. A., and J. R. Holden. Esq., M.L.C. NOTWITHSTANDING the threatening aspect of the weather on the two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE programme put forth to the nautico-sporting world by the spirited Committee, is well worthy of them; and despite the change of the times, we angur…
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