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  3. SPORTSMAN'S NOTE-BOOK.

    AMONGST the entries for Rosehill races last Saturday were Irene for the Granville Stakes and Jean for the October Handicap. The owner, Mr. A. Gollan, did not start ...

    Article : 273 words
  4. BURKE'S BUNGLE.

    Whether Melossi's inglorious display—third in the Granville Stakes—was [?] to the fact that he went out at 10 to 1, usually a Kelso not-wanted price, or because Burke, ...

    Article : 126 words
  5. WORDS OF WISDOM.

    Remember, the man who knows a "good thing" in horseflesh feels sure he's found a good thing in ass-flesh when he chats you. Remember, you may have the toothache ...

    Article : 97 words
  6. DALY'S DOINGS.

    For "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain" Bret Harte gave the cake to the Heathen Chinee, but I'd like to back some of the N.S.W. handicappers, and lay ...

    Article : 203 words
  7. HANDICAPPERS' HANKY-PANKY.

    I have heard people cackle that there is a deal of skill required in handicapping. I think so, too; but not the way most people think. The skill is not to be found out ...

    Article : 180 words
  8. TRAINING NOTES.

    There was any amount of interesting work done on the tracks last week, things being very busy at Flemington, where there are a tremendous lot of horses. Dick Wootton has ...

    Article : 1,079 words
  9. NUMBSKULL NAMING.

    "The name of Dargin's 'Holy Water' has been changed to that of "Boyne Water," while Lucas has altered "Hellfire's" name to Yellow Pup." No doubt clever Dargin ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. A MOULDY MEMORY.

    Thomas Strettles Cabborn, secretary for the A.J.C., in giving evidence before the Select Committee on the Racing Association Bill, had the cool assurance to state :— ...

    Article : 162 words
  11. MELBOURNE LETTER.

    The Sandown Park Meeting last Wednesday was favored with fine weather and was well attended, but the sport was very moderate, them being a great want of ...

    Article : 3,199 words
  12. AN OLD SPORT GONE.

    News reached Sydney last week of the death of one of the straight old-time sportsmen, John Field, of Calstock, near Launceston, Tasmania. Mr. Field was a native of ...

    Article : 111 words
  13. SUNDAY-SCHOOL SCHOLARS.

    A member of Tattersall's Club was the other day severely censured by the committee for having said he "was once as cronk as any of them." Whether the ...

    Article : 96 words
  14. THE STEWARDS' STRANGER.

    At the Rosehill Race Meeting last Saturday the Hon. W. A. Long wan accommodated with a scat in the stewards' enclosure. The necessity for mentioning this circumstance is ...

    Article : 152 words
  15. CAST IRON'S WAKE.

    Affairs were made a bit willing at Rosehill on last Saturday, yet do one was asked an earnest rude question by the somnolent stewards. One of the Sydney dailies, in ...

    Article : 139 words
  16. RATS CLUB.

    A weary-footed punter named Charlie Williams, after walking himself foot sore at a Randwick late meeting, flopped a couple of googies into the capacious bag of Bob ...

    Article : 304 words
  17. THEN AND NOW.

    The present sample of racing man does not apparently care for matches pure and simple. In the fifties they were frequent Instance October 3, 1857, a match was run on ...

    Article : 107 words
  18. PUNTING PECULIARITIES.

    Looking through my note-book and carefully conning the results there entered, I find that betweep October 1, 1899, and October 1 of this year there were 59 meetings, ...

    Article : 266 words
  19. THE MATTER OF MYALBA.

    In last week's issue of this paper, the pony tips for Kensington quoted Myalba to win the Fourteen-one Handicap, the quotation being qualified with the proviso in ...

    Article : 314 words
  20. GLORIFIED GORMAN.

    In the Carlingford Handicap Lybian went out a slashing first favorite, the general opinion being that it would have to win. Getting well away from the barrier Lybian ...

    Article : 96 words
  21. WELSHERS AND WIRES.

    A Sydney evening newspaper, on information received from the police, has made the startling statement that Sydney is overrun with pickpockets, welshers, and such ...

    Article : 136 words
  22. A ROYAL STALLION.

    One of the best billets I know of is now being filled by the Prince of Wales' racehorse Persimmon, who has just gone to the stud. I read, "Persimmon lives in an ...

    Article : 164 words
  23. HARD RIDING.

    In 1831 Mr. George Osbaldeston undertook to ride 200 miles in 10 hours over a round course for a wager of 1000 guineas, he not being limited in the number or choice of ...

    Article : 265 words
  24. "SPANIEL'S" DERBY.

    It is an old saying "Never judge a horse by his looks." This was duly demonstrated in the year 1832 by "Spaniel," who won the English Derby in that year. In 1828, Lord ...

    Article : 237 words
  25. TOMMY THOUGHT.

    The A.J.C. are bucking and grafting like Billy-oh against the Racing Bill, and the A.J.C. secretary has been singing bin little song (without banjo accompaniment) before ...

    Article : 193 words
  26. MORE VET v. MONA.

    Mick Dawson has fined the pony game down very neat, and in spite of the fight-happens manages to make it pay. To do this successfully a man has to have as many ...

    Article : 198 words
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