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  3. HILDA'S TWO HOPS.

    THE first and last didn't seem to be Hilda's dart on Wednesday. She copped the first, but wasn't wanted in [?]other. On the previous Thursday she carried 41/2lb more ...

    Article : 96 words
  4. THE HORNSBY HUSTLE.

    HORNSBY is a spot situated on the northern line and adjacent to the Parramatta River The people round there are a quiet, inoffensive sort of public, who, tired of the rows ...

    Article : 381 words
  5. SPORT JOTTINGS.

    The racehorse Lybian has been sold to Mr. John [?] Lee. Petrel's owner, Michael Guerin, Esq., is lying low with his prad. ...

    Article : 1,896 words
  6. SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK.

    WHEN the SPORTSMAN speaks, they can all speak. We have spoken of tale-tellers and tip-slingers, and told tales of how these tale-tellers took people down. No one ...

    Article : 413 words
  7. DROPPED OUT.

    MR. J. R. HARDIE has resigned from the committee of Tattersall's Club. For some time past a certain clique of Tallersallians, known as the "Long Form," have made ...

    Article : 142 words
  8. DOWN WHERE THE DEAD 'UNS LIE

    WHAT I wrote you, Mr. Hotspur, 'Boot the dead meat shops last week. Has been stirring of the possum In those joints, and how they squeak. ...

    Article : 702 words
  9. GETTING A STIFF.

    THE Well-known secretary of a racing club has been presented with a piece of blue paper for an alleged libel on a newly-elected councillor for a sporting municipality. ...

    Article : 84 words
  10. A NOISE UP NORTH.

    THE Brisbane bookmakers, or rather some of them, are at loggerheads with the Woolloongabba proprietary. The Gabba proprietary demanded that only Q.T.C. ...

    Article : 316 words
  11. GABBA GUNS.

    OUR Queensland correspondent writes : — Again a big crowd rolled up to be "fleeced" by the limelight — beg pardon, electric light; but though the "fleecers" doings were as ...

    Article : 234 words
  12. OFFICER'S ORDERLY.

    THE sporting column of the "Telegraph," on the 21st instant, contained the following paragraph : — Mr. George C[?]bborn son of Mr. T. S. ...

    Article : 190 words
  13. GEEING FOR THE JUDGE.

    THE late peculiar decision of Judge Benson is responsible for some extraordinary explanations and excuses. A popular excuse with some peculiar people is, that owing to ...

    Article : 276 words
  14. BONNY ROONEY'S LIKELY RETURN.

    IN view of the several instances of the brooked running, and the twisting and turning of the marketable positions of the erstwhile favorites when owners had two or ...

    Article : 337 words
  15. YASS PEOPLE YAPPING.

    THE state of affairs up Yass way must be somewhat unsettled. A communication just to hand from one of our correspondents would have this paper to think that Sydney ...

    Article : 563 words
  16. M'CARTHY HAS A CUT.

    OUR old friend Pat M'Carthy has been having a word with Quinton, the handicapper, who, not recognising the wisdom of silence, rushed into print to write Pat out of ...

    Article : 634 words
  17. WILKINSON'S WEIGHTS.

    IN one of our early editions there appeared, a paragraph anent the doings of Vernon. It will be remembered by our readers that Whitbread rode Vernon, and then rode ...

    Article : 282 words
  18. "STRONG" STARTING.

    THE starting machine, which has been proved to be a vast improvement on the old method of starting horses with the flag, has been causing a great deal of trouble on ...

    Article : 199 words
  19. HANDICAPPERS' TROUBLES.

    A HANDICAPPER'S lot is not a happy one. Form, the material on which he has to rely, is as unstable as a politician's word. For a handicapper to try and give satisfaction to ...

    Article : 222 words
  20. A NOTE FROM THE NORTH.

    SAYS our Queensland correspondent : — The Creek handicapper, Mr. Pountney, has fallen off very much lately in the quality of his work, the contests at that resort, even when ...

    Article : 239 words
  21. YANKEES IN FRANCE.

    A NUMBER of American gentlemen for some time have been making arrangements for the formation of an international racing stable in France. ...

    Article : 120 words
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