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  3. AT LAST.

    THE SPORTSMEN has had an opportunity of wading through the rough draft of the Totalisator Bill, which Mr. Harry Levion will introduce to the Legislative Assembly ...

    Article : 142 words
  4. SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK.

    WHEN our only Postmaster-General, Drake, hid himself out to make all postal officials refrain from having a dash at a double, or peaking a straight-out bet, or trilling with ...

    Article : 377 words
  5. FOR ROSEHILL.

    N[?]HRO and Barley Bree, who are engaged in the Rosehill February Handicap, should run well in the eleven furlong event. Both mares shaped well last Tuesday at ...

    Article : 62 words
  6. BARTON'S BACK.

    "BARTON fell and broke his back," is the brief manner in which the morning letter announce the death of the hurdle racehorse that was burdened with the name of Bart ...

    Article : 181 words
  7. WOOLLING THE WELSHERS.

    At the Koroit Police Court lately, John Edwards and William Watson were brought up on two charges of "welshing" at the Kirkstall races. Edwards was sentenced to ...

    Article : 153 words
  8. NOTES AND NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

    Kensington races take place to-day. Plaintiff and The Kiss are at present in Moree. Grattan has been struck out of the A.J.C. ...

    Article : 2,160 words
  9. MACHINE MATTERS.

    THERE must be something radically wrong with the starting machine that mikes it anything but the good old reliable it is cracked up to be, or we would not be ...

    Article : 205 words
  10. A LUCKY OWNER.

    MR. J. T. RYAN is an extremely fortunate man (says "Petronel" in the "N.Z. Referee"). I think he has only owned two or three racehorses during his short career ...

    Article : 329 words
  11. THE TUMBERUMBA TROUBLE.

    THE circumstances surrounding the Earl Olive and Cyrus trouble in the recent Tumberumba Town Plate continue to become more involved, and the country press ...

    Article : 234 words
  12. WONDERFUL WEIGHTS.

    ACCORDING to the sporting writers of the press, the V.R.C handicapper is promised a lively ten minutes over his Newmarket and Cup weights. Whether this is the ...

    Article : 216 words
  13. THE POTENCY OF CHANCE.

    IT has been a generally accepted theory with English studmasters for many years past that an occasional change of climate is extremely beneficial to thoroughbreds. ...

    Article : 690 words
  14. THE BOXING BOOM.

    THAT the sport of boxing is immensely popular with the public of New South Wales, has often been proved by its frequent recoveries from knock-down blows; and ...

    Article : 337 words
  15. CROOKS IN THE COUNTRY.

    BY all accounts the metropolitan racing area is not the only place in which "cronk" practices are indulged in (says " Pretender," in Melbourne "Sportsman") to such an ...

    Article : 477 words
  16. SLOGGED IN THE SADDLE.

    THE ways of the magistrate in some parts of the Federation are like the mercy of God, passing understanding. In the course of a race for Tattersall's Cup, at Croydon (Q.), ...

    Article : 328 words
  17. THE PLATE AND-PURSE PUZZLE.

    LAST week one of the SPORTSMAN staff met a prominent horseowner of this State, and from his agitated appearance gathered some matter of moment was worrying him. ...

    Article : 546 words
  18. THE KIND'S JOCKEY.

    THE news that Danny Maher, the American jockey, will ride King Edward's horses next season, at a salary of £5000, the highest retaining fee ever paid a rider on either side ...

    Article : 214 words
  19. A STARRY MISCONCEPTION.

    THE "Star" seems to seriously imagine that people are waiting eyes open and mouths agape for Hay Ho Jones' articles on cricket as sue is played in Horsetrayer, ...

    Article : 175 words
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