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Sport, 1876

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Coursing. THE N. S. W. Club Meeting at Bathurst. (From Our Special Correspondent.) May 8

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 30

I AM delighted, to announce to your readers that the first coursing match in New South Wales, so far, has been a decided success. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, some three hundred persons…

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Sydney Amateur Athletic Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 May 1876 · page 5

IT might have been conjectured that an intercolonial cricket match, or some other event equally attractive to the public, was taking place on the Albert Ground on Saturday afternoon, judging from the long array cf hansoms, omnibuses, and…

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Sporting. Northern Jockey Club Races. [By Telegraph.] West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 May 1876 · page 5

At the Autumn Races to-day the weather was dull and showery, and the course slippery. Cup betting: 3 to 1 about the Valetta colt, 4 to 1 about Miss Kingston, and 5 to 1 about Duke and…

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Sporting. Northern Jockey Club Races. [By Telegraph.] West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 May 1876 · page 5

The weather is dismally dull and showery. The attendance is only moderate. ELYING HANDICAP. Mr. J. Eales's ch[?]e Rataplan...... 1…

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Training Notes. Mudgee Races. Mudgee, Friday, 10.59 a.m

Evening News · Friday 19 May 1876 · page 2

A good number of outside horses have arrived, and to-gether with the local nags, are In active training. Yesterday and this moroing there was a fair muster on the course. Beadsman did a slow canter, accompanied by Baron and…

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Coursing

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 661

MR. Gardner arrived in Melbourne via Albur on Friday night, in time for his engagement On Saturday. The imported dog Treasurer, after running here in Mr. Hall's name, has gone back to Mr…

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Football

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 662

ON Tuesday evening a meeting was hell at Burwood to consider the propriety of taking steps to form a local football club. About twenty gentlemen were present and a resolution was proposed in favour of…

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Cricket

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 662
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THE next cricket season promises to be a far brisker one than the past for all the colonies, as it is more than probable that we shall be honoured with the presence of two crack trams from the mother-country. Arrangements for the…

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Parramatta Races

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 5

The Parramatta Racecourse will be re-opened for the first time under the new regime, on Queen’s Birthday. The committee have made some…

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The Coursing Match at Bathurst. [From Our Special Correspondent.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 21

"DOANT'T it put ee in moind o' whoam," was one of the many exclamations which fell from the lips of an enthusiastic old Englishman who witnessed the first coursing match ever held in New South "Walos on Monday last…

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Coursing in New South Wales. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 661

SIR,—Those who love the good old home sport of coursing must feel indebted to you forgiving a full, true, and particular account of the two days doings at Bathurst. I had the pleasure of being there, and never have…

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Sydney Amateur Athletic Club Sports

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 10

THERE was a day's capital sport on the Albert Ground on Saturday, under the auspices of the Sydney Amateur Athletic Club, their eighth meeting. The admission was by invitation ticket only, and there was a large…

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Cricket Match

Evening News · Monday 22 May 1876 · page 2

The return cricket match between the brewers and the Licensed Victuallers' Association took place at the Albert Ground on last Saturday. Rather un-fortunately the weather was wet, but there having…

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Training Notes. Mudgee Races. Mudgee, Monday, 1.8 a.m

Evening News · Monday 22 May 1876 · page 2

Most of the horses were out doing their trial gallops yesterday. Beadsman and Viva did an excellent couple of miles. AT went lame on the course yesterday, and is scratched for all engagements…

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N.S.W. Cricket Association

Evening News · Tuesday 23 May 1876 · page 2

At a meeting of the committee of the N.S.W. Cricketing Association, held last evening at Tattersall's, (Mr. Driver, president, in the chair), a revised code of rules, prepared by a sub-committee, was…

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Epsom Races

Evening News · Wednesday 24 May 1876 · page 3

London, April 25th.—In the City and Suburban Handicap races at Epsom to-day, a distance of 1¼ miles, with 108 pounds, eighty-three subscribers, twenty-three horses started. Thunder came in first, Little Harry…

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Adelaide Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 May 1876 · page 5

FLYING HANDICAP.—Doctor 1, Poodle 2, Nightingale 3. Time, 1 minute 17 seconds. It was an indifferent start, the Doctor [?]king the lead and keeping it all the way…

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Bendigo Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 May 1876 · page 5

The Hurdle Race was won by Gaffer Grey, and the Steeplechase by Duffer…

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Kensington Park Races. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 May 1876 · page 5

The above races resulted as follows:—Larrikin won the Hurdle Race; Be[?]am, the Selling Stakes: Electricity, the Nursery Handicap, and Blazes, the Steeplechase…

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