Thosa who recollect these annual meetings a few years past cannot fall to remember the large gatherings that used to assemble on these occasions, the river's banks being crowded from Frince's bridge to the Sir Henry Barkly at Richmond with thousands of ...
Article : 3,392 wordsHerewith I enclose particulars of ourlate Annual Races Meeting though rather late in the season for this district, it was quite a success. Contrary to all expectations, the weather was splendid, and the attendance very good. Tho settling came off at tho Royal ...
Article : 723 wordsHe sat in thought, communing with the past, And Memory her page wide open threw, While many a shadow, dimly rising, cast Its darkening reminiscence o'er the view ...
Article : 428 wordsTHE AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY CLUD (Mares) PUODUCE Stakes, of 10 sov each, h ft, 2½ sov only if declared by 1st August, 1870, with 100 sov from the A. J.C. added for then three yrs, the produce of mares entered for this race on the 14th May last, and published in ...
Article : 438 wordsA few mornings sfnee I received by post a small box. On account of the holes pricked in the cover I suspected that it might contain something alive, therefore refrained I from opening it until had read my letters, it was fortunate I did so, for from one of the ...
Article : 1,258 wordsI have shot may arrows, and spun my top, And handled my last new ball; I trundled my hoop till I had to stop, And I swung till I got a fall: ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 197 wordsRENEWAL of the (Australian) DERBY STAKES of 30 sov each, h ft; 5 sov only if deciared by the first Thursday after the Randwick Autumn Meeting of 1769; for colts 8st 10ib, and fillies 8st 5lb, then thrce years old. One mile and a haif. The owner of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsRENEWAL OF THE (Australian) ST. LEGER STAKES of 30 sovs cach, h ft., 5 sov only if declared by the first Thursday after the Randwick Spring Meeting of 1869: for colts 8st 10lb, fillies 8st 5lb, then tree years old. 1¾ mile. the owner of the second horse to ...
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Advertising : 397 wordsThe following amusing anecdot of the late Mr George Samuel Ford, the "flnance agent" who flourished before Mr Padwick, is told by the writer of "Our Van" in a recent number of Baily's Magazine:—" Mr Ford came down to Ascot with £7000 in his ...
Article : 876 wordsThe autumn meeling of the Jockey Club, so far as it has progressed can hardly be said to have proved auspices for South Australian turf interests. The vaunted popularity of the" People's Course" has been disproved to the loss of the coffers of the Club, and we ...
Article : 3,214 wordsThe AUSTRALIAN Jeckey CLUB (Sires) PRODUCE Stakes of 10 sov each h ft, 2½ sov only if declared by the first Thursday after the Autumn Meeting fo 1869, with 240 sov subscribed by the owners of the undermentioned sires, and 100 sov from the A.J.C.: for then ...
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Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle (NSW : 1860 - 1870), Sat 8 May 1869, Page 4
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