Victoria Racing Club Autumn Meeting
AUSTRALIAN CUP, a handicap sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 150 added. Two miles and a quarter. Weights to be declared on or before the 22nd of February. Mr Dufrocq's bg Temboy, 6 yrs…
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Victoria Turf. Ballarat Miners' Races
There was a very good little meeting last week at the Ballarat Miners' racecourse. The races were very well contested. Marine von the Hurdle Race, and in a subsequent event still further added to his laurels; he is a nice…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cricket in Queensland. ALBERT v. NATIONAL. (From our Brisbane Correspondent.)
A match was commenced on the 6th instant, and concluded on the 13th, between eleven of the National Club, and sixteen of the Albert Club and resulted in an easy victory for the latter. The Nationals went to the wickets first, and obtained 56 runs, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Turf. Shoalhaven Annual Races. (Abridged from the Schoalhaven News.) First Day, Wednesday, Feb. 17
First Race.—The MAIDEN PLATE of 40 sovs., with a sweepstake of 2 sovs each to go to the second horse. Mr J. Farraher's ch h Trump Car, 3 yrs 1 E. De Mestre's [?] Stumpy, aged 2…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hartley Races. JUDGE: John Thurston Esq. TREASURER: Mr Thomas Geo. Markwell, sen STEWARDS: Messrs John Finn; W. G. Orhell; George Lee; F. G. Finlay; N. Woolley; Jacob Russart. STARTER: Mr John Delancy. Clerk of the Course: Mr George Marden
These races, after being postponed from the previous Wednesday and Thursday, came off on Friday and Saturday last week, and if anything could furnish a valid excuse for the adjournment, it certainly was to be found…
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INTERCOLONIAL CRICKET MATCH.—This event, which comes off in the present year at Sydney, will be played in the Domain, commencing on Thursday next. The nearly equal te[?]s on,which the players of Victoria and Now…
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THE annual meeting of the University Cricket Club was held at Tattersall's, on Monday, the 1st instant Mr. G. A. Fitzhardinge occupied the chair, and stated the object of the meeting…
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THE great event of the season is to be played on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, in the Domain, between the chosen representatives of Victoria and New South Wales. Hitherto the interest taken in these annual contests has…
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The great event of the cricketting season and annual intercolonial contest commonced yesterday in the presence of some three or four thousand people, the weather being delightfully propitious for the occasion, a…
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THE Intercolonial Match for the season 1868-69 commenced yesterday in the Domain under favourable circumstances as to weather, and, if there was anything to detract from the public interest in the contest, it was that part of…
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OUR races next week bid fair to be well contested, judging from the number of horses that are in train. In addition to those enumerated in our last issue we have heard of the arrival of a horse from Albury named Miss Wasp, and…
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THE FORTHCOMING RACES.—The time for the Grenfell Autumn Races is at hand, and great are the preparations for the coining event. The stewards have been all the week full of business seeing to repairs of the grand stand,…
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First Race.—MAIDEN PLATE, of 10 sovs; one and a half miles; for horses that have never won an advertised prise exceeding 5 sovs; weight for age. Mr A. M'Kenzie's bl g Sattelite, 5 yrs. 1…
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THE annual meeting of the University Cricket Club was held at Tattersall's, on Monday, the 1st instant. Mr. G. A. Fitzhardinge occupied the chair, and stated the object of the meeting…
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Play was ro[?]umed at 12 o'clock, and again under favourable auspices as regards yesterday the weather, and althought it blew a strong southerly breeze throughout the day still it did not seem to interfere with the…
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The usual match between Victoria and New South Wales commenced on Thursday in the Domain, and was continued yesterday, as will-be seen by the appended scores. We are content in the present issue to give an…
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THE playing of the match was continued, yesterday, before an assemblage of spectators increasing from a thousand at noon to about twelve thousand later in the day. More favourable weather could not have been bespoken, the glare…
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After preliminary practice, and the Victorians taking the field, substituting Christie for Phillips, who for religious reasons did not play, the two" stayers," Gregery and Sheridan, took their places at…
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ON Saturday this, perhaps the most exciting intercolonial match the two colonies have yet engaged in, was brought to a conclusion. Not only has it been signalised by a large amount of excellent play on both sides, by an interest so…
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