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Sport, 1853

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Sporting Reviewer. Races to Come

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 9 July 1853 · page 2

Broulce, 1st, 2nd and 3rd July. Newcastle Races, 13th, 20th, and 21st July. Braidwood Races, August 9. Campbell Town, 7th, 8th, and 9th September…

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Newcastle Races. (From the Maitland Mercury, July 20.) First Dat, Tuesday, July 19, 1853

Empire · Friday 22 July 1853 · page 3

These races commenced yesterday, coming off on the new race course, three four miles out of Newcastle, which appears to be a very good one, and to have been got into capital condition,…

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Newcastle Races, 1853. (From the Maitland Mercury.) First Day, Tuesday, July 19

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 23 July 1853 · page 2

These races commenced yesterday, coming off on the new race course, three or four miles out of Newcastle, which appents to be a very good one, and to have been got into capital condition…

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News From the Interior. Newcastle Races. (From the Maitland Mercury.) First Day, Tuesday, July 19, 1853

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 July 1853 · page 5

THESE races commenced yesterday, coming off on the new racecourse, three or four miles out of Newcastle, which appears to be a very good one, and to have been got into capital condition…

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Newcastle Races, 1853. (From the Maint[?]and Mercury.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 30 July 1853 · page 1

The weather has continued very favorable for the races each day. On the second day the racing was scarcely so good as the first day; the third day the running was again good. The attendance of…

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Sporting Reviewer. Races to Come

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 13 August 1853 · page 2

Patrick's Plains, 24th, 25th, and 26th August. Mudgee....6th, 7th, and 8th September. Campbell Town, 7th, 8th, and 9th September. Western Road, 20th, 21st, and 22nd September…

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Sporting Reviewer. Races to Come

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 20 August 1853 · page 2

Patrick's Plains, 24th, 25th, and 26th August. Madgee......6th, 7th, and 8th September. Campbell Town, 7th, 8th, and 9th September. Western Road, 29th, 31st, and 22nd September…

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Sporting Reviewer. Races to Come

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 27 August 1853 · page 2

Mudgee [?]6th, 7th, and 8th September. Campbell Town, 7th, 8th, and 9th September. Western Road, 20th, 21st, and 22nd September. B[?]ima[?]28th, 29 [?] 30th September…

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Newcastle Regatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 August 1853 · page 4

THIS regatta, which took place on the 23rd instant, may be said to have come off much to the gratification of all spectators. Long before the first race could be started, the…

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Epsom Races, 1853

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 3 September 1853 · page 2

The following condensed report of the running for the two great annual events—The Derby and the Oaks—we take from our Melbourne Contemporary the A[?]s; our files of sporting papers to…

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Drayton Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 10 September 1853 · page 1

These Races came off, as advertised, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 16th, 17th, and 18th inst. The attendance of the inhabitants of Drayton, and the neighbourhood was considerable,…

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Races at Raymond Terrace. (From the Maitland Mercury, September 7.)

Empire · Saturday 10 September 1853 · page 2

Our little community was this day enlivened by a sport which, I am sorry to say, is evidently on the decline in this district. I will briefly state the events…

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The Western Road Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 24 September 1853 · page 2

STEWARDS.—Jno. Lackey, Esq; Jno. Perry, Esq; J. T. Ryan. Esq. WE challenge the memory of the oldest inhabitant" to dispute our presence at…

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Sporting Intelligence. Homebush Drapers' Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 September 1853 · page 9

SUBJOINED we place before our sporting readers the entries for the Homebush Drapers' Races which are to come off on Thursday, the 6th of October. This meeting is looked forward to…

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Campbelltown Races, 1853 To the Editors of Bell's Life in Sydney

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 24 September 1853 · page 2

Gentlemen,—I concluded from not seeing any notice of the Campbelltown races in yourlast weeks issue, that you considered it too slow an affair for your sporting journal…

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The Drapers' Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 October 1853 · page 3

THE Drapers' Races came off yesterday, on the Homebush Course, and the meeting was a most successful one. For some years past this meeting has…

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Drarers' Homebush Races

Empire · Friday 7 October 1853 · page 2

These very favourite races were run yesterday, and afforded to the lovers of "that noble annual, the horse" an opportunity of proving their affection, of illustrating their sagacity, and of…

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Drapers Races

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 8 October 1853 · page 2

These races came off on Thursday last on the Homebush Course. The day was fine but very cold and dusty. There was, however; a very large attendance on the course. His Excellency the Governor-General, and suite, and a large number of fashionables were there,…

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Berrima Turf Club Races

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 October 1853 · page 1

The above races took place on the Merriworth [?], on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, [?] 29th, and 30th of September, and were [?] attended on all threedays, the weather being…

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Cricket Match

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 October 1853 · page 5

ON Saturday last, pursuant to arrangement, a match took place in the Barrack Square, Parramatta, between an "eleven" of the town and district, and an "eleven" from the Royal…

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