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    Advertising : 63 words
  3. FUN AT FOREST[?]00E.

    THE Forest Lodge Racing Club hold a meeting on Saturday next, when some good racing should be witnessed. The big race of the day in the Second Fores Lodge Cup, ...

    Article : 109 words
  4. SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK.

    THE announcement that Major George has given Nelson to Edward Cutts, and that the grand big chestnut has gone south to Canterbury into the charge of his old trainer, ...

    Article : 757 words
  5. BY THE TURF EDITOR.

    A "RUSHED" editor recently sent the horse reporter to supply a criticism of an instrumental concert, and this, is what he turned in :—"The bell rung punctually to ...

    Article : 359 words
  6. THE TOTE.

    IT is stated that the proposed Totalisator Bill is practically drafted, and its text will soon be made public, and probably its sponsors, guided by past experience, will ...

    Article : 105 words
  7. DAMNING THE DONCASTER.

    JUST twelve months ago the SPORTSMAN had a chat with its dear old friend Thomas Strettles Clibbor[?], Esq., and the A.J.C. Committee, over the moss the club made of ...

    Article : 375 words
  8. NOTES AND NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.

    Kensington races take place today. Perfect and Khaki are being treated to a spell. Lady Laura has been struck out of the ...

    Article : 1,940 words
  9. THE WALER IN INDIA.

    THE members of the Horse and Mule Breeding Commission in India have issued their report. Referring to Australian and English thoroughbreds, the commissioners inspected ...

    Article : 106 words
  10. TURF REMINISCENCES.

    RECENTLY a book was issued by an old-time sportsman named Hodgman. It really contains the turf experiences of the gentleman named, and they are told in a lively style, ...

    Article : 774 words
  11. UNPROTECTED COURSES.

    AT the Northampton November meeting S. Loates met with a serious accident through a man running across the course as a race was being finished. Loates'mount and two ...

    Article : 483 words
  12. FARCICAL FLUTTERS.

    "JAVELIN," in commenting on those farces called "Jumpers'Flat Races." ably touches on the raw an undoubted turf evil in the following strain :—"The recent successes ...

    Article : 339 words
  13. LIVENING 'EM UP.

    THE management of the Ascot Vale (Vic.) racing track on Thursday last set other and more pretentious clubs an example that might at times be followed with advantage. ...

    Article : 222 words
  14. PONY CLUBS AND INCREASED PRIZES.

    THE Forest Lodge Racing Club had no occasion to fall in with the Kensington Racing Club's new regulation regarding the giving of £100 by pony and galloway clubs ...

    Article : 343 words
  15. TASMANIA'S TOTE.

    As the tote takings at Tasmanian racing meetings have been slowly, but surely, decreasing owing to the books cutting in at the game, the committee had a word ...

    Article : 126 words
  16. THE SPORTING BENTINCK.

    MANY of England's greatest statesmen have been sterling supporters of the turf in England, amongst them being three Prime Minister—Derby, Palmerston and ...

    Article : 216 words
  17. FITTING A FIELDER.

    Two well-known pony fielders were out the other evening chewing wine and looking for trouble in a Pitt-street hotel. The wine they got for brass, and one of them the ...

    Article : 108 words
  18. SOME S.T.C. CANDIDATES.

    VERY little is doing on the Challenge and Anniversary Handicap double, while the straight-out betting on either event is almost nil. However, after Warwick Farm ...

    Article : 25 words
  19. BRUISING BIKISTS.

    AFTER the finish of the cycling contests on Saturday last, trouble arose in the dressing-room of the wheel-pushers, and a willing, though somewhat mixed, go was ...

    Article : 79 words
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