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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 10 words
  3. SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK.

    Several of the pony sharks are just now away on trips for the good of their health—and pockets—and in the near future a few splendid ring-ins will no doubt ...

    Article : 70 words
  4. ANTICIPATIONS.

    Weights for the Rosehill Racing Club's January meeting were issued on Monday, and Handicapper Quinton appears to have done good work in trying to bring the ...

    Article : 758 words
  5. NOTES AND NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

    "Kenso" to-day. Epping on Friday. Rosehill next Saturday. The Tasmanian "fortnight" starts ...

    Article : 1,911 words
  6. Ignored Cricketers.

    If further proof were wanting of the farcical and altogether unsatisfactory nature of the present system of selecting the eleven to represent Australia ...

    Article : 174 words
  7. Trainer Touts.

    Touts who do most mischief are trainers. They are ever ready to convey information as to what other horses than their own do on the track, and are not ...

    Article : 153 words
  8. Serving the Stiffs.

    The copper known by the sobriquet of "Mad Jack." whose beat is about Tattersall's in Pitt-street, has been pretty busy of late delivering "stiffs" for ...

    Article : 79 words
  9. Inconsistent Handicapping.

    Verily the Kensington handicapper would item to take a lob-sided view of the performances of some ponies as compared with others. Last week Amyas ...

    Article : 392 words
  10. Distinction and Difference.

    Whenever a horse owned by a person who is only just a "common fellow" runs indifferently one week, and a week later runs a bit better, the stewards and their ...

    Article : 289 words
  11. Punishing Paddy.

    Paddy Ward, well known in Sydney, has just bumped against a snag in the West and been outed for malpractice by the W.A.T. Club stewards. The punishing ...

    Article : 85 words
  12. Slaughter, Not Sport.

    Among other items that is just now being boomed as sport ia an account of a match made wherein a well-known (name not given) pigeon shot has ...

    Article : 146 words
  13. Brought to Book.

    One or two of the pony bookmakers have lately lost the number of their mess, and now no longer sport the satchel and tender tickets to the weary punter. In ...

    Article : 35 words
  14. Inquiry Needed.

    Bating on local racing is becoming very deadly, punters scarcely ever dreaming of backing more than two or three in a race, and what is more, seldom ...

    Article : 109 words
  15. Troubling the Touts.

    Some persons dressed in a little brief authority are squealing because some "outsiders" have dared to visit Randwick in the early morning, and witness ...

    Article : 233 words
  16. Cranky Crocks.

    With Dick Lilley and Glenara it seems to be a case of which feels best on convincing day. On two previous occasions when Dick Lilley's party fancied their ...

    Article : 117 words
  17. Off the Chain.

    The silver shop sinners had a day off the chain on Thursday last, and planted themselves in the sweet seclusion of classic Clontarf, where, apart from the ...

    Article : 345 words
  18. Straight Stewards.

    The Perth (W.A.) "Herald" reports in its issue of the 10th instant:—The adjourned inquiries in connection with the running of Sample in the Plate, and of ...

    Article : 467 words
  19. Picnic Meeting Pleasures.

    Racing at Tirranna was as dusty and dry as a lime-burner's wig., and anyone outside of the charmed circle hud to hustle to dodge death by suffocation, ...

    Article : 215 words
  20. Gunning.

    Just at present, some one or more persons are making money by aid of inspired and early information obtained from the racecourses, more particularly the ...

    Article : 160 words
  21. Pedestrianism on the Up Grade.

    The enterprise and enthusiasm of Tom Hardiman in offering £50 as prize money for a handicap to be run at his Randwick Grounds recalls the good old days ...

    Article : 224 words
  22. KENSINGTON RACES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 75 words
  23. An Obstreperous 'Orse.

    A horse possessing a large sized will of his own, earned up in George-street West yesterday afternoon, attached to a broken-down conveyance, that carried an ...

    Article : 268 words
  24. Rain Spoils the Joke.

    The Launceston "Examiner," in reporting the ringing-in of the pony Invest at Warragul, states that when Invest won, a protest was entered that she was ...

    Article : 169 words
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