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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 169 words
  3. DIVIDED DIVIDENDS.

    THE Tasmania Racing Club propose at their next meeting to divide the money into 75 percent, and 23 per cent, tote dividends. Some of the willing owners will then have ...

    Article : 76 words
  4. SPORT JOTTINGS.

    Rosehill races on Saturday next. An Australian Cup scratching: Strathjoy. Dahomey is being treated to a 12 months' spell. ...

    Article : 2,978 words
  5. KENNEDY CLIMBS DOWN.

    NOT having seen the name of our old friend, S. R. Ke[?] in type for some time past, we thought he must have "thrown a seven," for we reckoned nothing short of death ...

    Article : 746 words
  6. SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK.

    A MATTER which has for some time exercised the minds of the "paying public" on settling day, is again forcing itself into prominence. It is the rattling of affairs on ...

    Article : 504 words
  7. WIPING OUT THE WHISPERER.

    ONE or two special detectives are always on duty at the entrance gate of the chief American courses, and if a man is seen to be whispering words of advice, or in any ...

    Article : 79 words
  8. THE BOY ON TOP.

    THE late owner of Noble Lady struck a well of wisdom the other day when he said, "There's only one way I see out of it, and that is to breed your own jockeys." This ...

    Article : 118 words
  9. AN ACT OF JUSTICE.

    IT is freely rumored that the A.J.C. propose to shortly revive some of the rules treating of the bookmaking industry. The result will probably be that some lambs that have ...

    Article : 134 words
  10. GYRATING GRATIS.

    AT a late up-country meeting the owner of a horse named Grates entered a protest on the ground that a bystander had re-erected a hurdle that had been knocked down ...

    Article : 186 words
  11. CORA'S CAPERS.

    CORA IL, in her running in the Kensington Handicap on Wednesday last, showed one of the most flagrant reversals of form that has been experienced by pony people ...

    Article : 387 words
  12. THE THREE P'S

    THE last week's meeting at Brighton by the Beach was responsible for something unique in the history of pony rating. Three Yiddishers had three ponies, and they ...

    Article : 262 words
  13. INSULT TO INJURY.

    AT the last Maribyrnong meeting a jockey named Stebbings had the mount on W. H. Baldwin's horse Billy L. in the Hurdle Race. Stebbings' horsemanship did not ...

    Article : 179 words
  14. O'BRIEN OUSTED.

    AT the Newcastle Jockey Club meeting held on Wednesday last, the committee had brought before them a bookmaker named Mick O'Brien, charged with using filthily ...

    Article : 478 words
  15. RACING RUNNERS.

    THERE is connected with pony racing a set of people whole presence on pony courses— or any other for that matter—cannot be calculated to be conducive to the ...

    Article : 493 words
  16. JUGGLING WITH A JOCKEY.

    LAST Saturday week Jockey Evans rode Smith's Isola in a race at Kensington, and won. On the following Wednesday Jockey Burns rods Smith's Isolo, and ...

    Article : 445 words
  17. SWEATING THE BILLIARD-MARKER.

    BILLIARD-MARKERS cannot nay anything favorable of the eight hour and early doting system. A well-known marker made a complaint to us that he averaged 14 hours a ...

    Article : 128 words
  18. MURTOUGH'S MUDDLING METHODS.

    THERE is probably no greater incentive to stiff running and crooked racecourse capers than reckless handicapping. The Absurd manner in which weights are adjusted in ...

    Article : 291 words
  19. THE KUHN CROWD.

    LAST week I mentioned a matter connected with the curious capers of the Kuhn crowd at a recent meeting at Canterbury, I now with to say, a few says about the ...

    Article : 268 words
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