Launceston Champion Races
The following is the result of the first day's racing:- MAIDEN PLATE. Cadland and Bourbon came in a dead hea;…
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Anniversary Races
TUESDAY last—Anniversary Day—was commemorated in Burrowa by a day's horse-racing on Mr. J. N. Ryan's racecourse. This once-popular amusement, however, no longer seems to possess the attraction of former days, if we…
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THE continued success of the new series of Anniversary races show what can be done by judgement and perseverance. Scarcely a more appropriate day could have been fixed upon than the Anniversary of the colony…
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The Races came off on the Bell Vale course on the 26th instant, being the A universary of the Foundation of the Colony, and were well attended by a large concourse of spectators. the MAIDEN PLATE of £10, for all maiden horses; distance, 1½…
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THE parties who have this year revived the Lucknow annual races had, we imagine, no reason to be dissatisfied at the result of their exertions. The racing was very good, the day fine, and the attendance as fully as numerous as…
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THIS customary meeting with our country turlites came off on the Richmond training ground on Tuesday. There was a large attendance, and some of the events were not only well contested but were good in regard to speed and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Launceston Races. (From the Argus) Tuesday, February 2
THE champion candidates were paraded up and down the paddock for the edification of the admiring spectators, whilst their jockeys were having their weights adjusted at the scales. There were five of them—Glencoe, Warwick,…
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MAIDEN PLATE of 10 sovs, for oil horses that never won an Advertised prize exceeding £5. One and a quarter mile. Weight for age. Mr J. Seath's b h Cameron…
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To take place on the 17th and 18th February. FIRST DAY. First Race.—The Maiden Plate of £40, with a sw[?]p of 2 sovereigns each added, for all maiden horses at the time…
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The weather, however welcome it may have been to the country at large, has proved decide[?]lly unfavourable to our cricketers during Thursday and yesterday, the days appointed for the farewell match between…
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THE following entries were made on Wednesday evening:- Australian Cup, a handicap sweepstakes of 5 sovereigns each, 2 ft., with 150 added. For three-year-olds and upwards. The winnder of a handicap race of the value of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Adela[?]de Duke's Day Races
The following are the weights for the Flying Handicap. Hurdles, and Duke of Edinburgh Stakes, to be run for on Friday next, on the old Adelaide course:- FLYING HANDICAP…
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FOR all youths under sixteen years of age, pulling a pair of sculls, in dingies not exceeding twelve feet on the keel; course — from flagship round Fort Denison, and back to flagship; first prize, £5; second, £2. Balmain—James Hughes (1) I'll Try…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Intercolonial Cricket Match
We have received a list of thirteen names of players, from which it is expected the eleven will finally be selected to represent New South Wales in the coming Intercolonial Match, viz:—Caffyn, Thompson, D. Gregory, E…
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Dear BELL,—You may like a few lines about Launceston from an "old' un," whose opinions were formed in another and different school from those in which the general rup of regular correspondents have graduated…
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THE following entries were made on Wednesday evening, the 10th instant:— Australian Cup, a handicap sweepstakes of 5 sovereigns each, 2 ft., with 150 added. For three-year-olds and…
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The race for the Launceston Champion Cup is over and for the fifth time has ended in the signal defeat of thefavorites. Each time since this great weight for age event has been established, we have had the same result…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tasmania Turf. Launceston Races. Second Day.—wednesday, February 3
WEDNESDAY morning broke dull and cloudy like the preceding one, but before long the sun broke through, and at intervals throughout (ho day there was no small degree of heat. So far as the actual racing was concerned,…
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WARWICK V. ALBERT.—Those clubs comme[?] second match of the season on Saturday, At the [?] Ground, which was in exquisitely fine condition, and [?] refreshing to look at. The colony can produce [?]…
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WARWICK v. ALBERT.—These clubs commenced their second match of the season on Saturday, at the Albert Ground, which was in exquisitely fine condition, and really refreshing to look at. The colony can produce no better…
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