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  3. MURTOUGH'S METHODS.

    LAST week the stewards — or, rather, one of the stewards. Mr. Murtough, who is a shareholder and handicapper at Rosebery Park — called on J. Shennon (owner) and ...

    Article : 216 words
  4. SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK.

    IT is stated that the A.J.C. will shortly be asked to adjudicate on a novel question of racing law which arose out of the running of a hurdle race at the recent Tumbarumba ...

    Article : 232 words
  5. SPORT JOTTINGS.

    A striking thing in gloves: The pugilists fist. Mr. Fagan's colt, by Zulu from Phyllis, has been named Boondi, ...

    Article : 3,023 words
  6. MOURNING.

    AN irreverent and unlucky punter at Kensington on Saturday last confidentially told a friend that the jockey boys were in mourning for the dead uns in the first race, ...

    Article : 53 words
  7. FAKERS OF FOREST. LODGE.

    RAPADOR, in his race at Forest, Lodge on Monday last, was about the strongest horse ever stripped to run crook. The Forest Lodge stewards held an inquiry into the ...

    Article : 64 words
  8. SHUT-UP SHOP.

    WHEN the news of the death of the Queen arrived all the principal silver shops at once closed and hung out the usual insignia of mourning. This was excellent taste on ...

    Article : 68 words
  9. A MANAWATU MESS.

    FROM our exchanges we gather that the starter at a late Manawatu (N.Z.) race meeting got tangled up worse than a Sunday school picnic at kiss in the ring time. ...

    Article : 183 words
  10. WILLING WEIGHERS.

    A BIT of hot work was put in by clerk of the scales at the last Mount Morgan race meeting, and as he and the committeemen who grafted in with him, did not, do it ...

    Article : 79 words
  11. ROUGH ON RAGS REPEATED.

    LAST week the SPORTSMAN republished particulars of a case in England where a newspaper was fined for giving prizes for "skill contests," the skill consisting of picking the ...

    Article : 156 words
  12. A DAY OF MOURNING.

    SATURDAY next being the day set apart as one of public mourning for the death of our late beloved Queen, it is highly improbable that sport of any description will eventuate ...

    Article : 94 words
  13. A TATTERSALL'S CLUB JOKE.

    IN the columns of "Truth." and those of the SPORTSMAN we have repeatedly said that Tattersall a Club was run by a woodenheaded, sawdust-brained lot of duffers. We ...

    Article : 226 words
  14. MORE A.J.C. BLUNDERING.

    THE regrettable decease of the Queen was responsible for various postponements of race meetings. The A.J.C., apparently without serious consideration, postponed ...

    Article : 278 words
  15. HOGAN'S RULES.

    Up at Mandurama race meeting a short time ago matters were made as lively as an electric battery in full go by a party named Hogan. Hogan's mare competed in a ...

    Article : 205 words
  16. THE TELEGRAPH AND TOMMIES.

    IN New Zealand, with the exception of Auckland, the various race clubs do all the betting themselves per medium of the tote, and no licenses to bet are issued to the ...

    Article : 172 words
  17. WAITING.

    THOMAS STRETTLES CLIBBORN, Esq., might drop the SPORTSMAN a line to let it know when he intends to reach out for the scalps of those bold, bad, wicked men, women and ...

    Article : 93 words
  18. DAKIN DECLINES.

    FROM a country exchange I learn that the Yarrawonga Racing Club was in trouble with handicapper Dakin. It appears that at the club's spring meeting. Brown Ribbon ...

    Article : 112 words
  19. THE KUHN CROWD OF KROOKS.

    THIS ia a matter winch I have been unable to touch upon in previous issues, owing to the exigencies of space. Nevertheless, 'tis better late than never. It will probably be ...

    Article : 550 words
  20. AMERICAN METHODS.

    SOME time ago, the Mew York " Spirit of the Times," in an article in regard to racing front end to end, said : — The American system never failed to bring down the ...

    Article : 351 words
  21. BRIGHTLIGHT BOTHERED.

    AFTER Brightlight's brilliant victory in the Novice Wetter the previous week, West's brown mare was looked upon as one of the best of good things on Saturday last for ...

    Article : 452 words
  22. PARSON MADDEN,

    THERE is a good story told of the Victorian sportsman, Mr. Frank Madden. When jockeys misbehave themselves it falls to the lot of Mr. Frank Midden to lecture them, ...

    Article : 209 words
  23. CARLOTTA COPS THE SYMPATHY STAKES.

    IN the Trial Stakes at Kensington on Saturday last there were five starters. Of these there were not so many triers. Carlotta won, and the race was classified by ...

    Article : 398 words
  24. EUCHRED.

    KENSINGTON got in a bit of fine work on the A.J.C. over the postponement of races in question, when on Wednesday last it postponed its usual pony meeting as a token of ...

    Article : 171 words
  25. STRONG.

    FROM an exchange I-learn the American stallion Cre[?]ous, which holds the world's stallion record of 2min 4sec, on his return home the other day was decorated on ...

    Article : 96 words
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