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  4. SPORT JOTTINGS

    Gauleon has been well backed for the Melbourne Cup. Dreadnought has been champion sire in Maoriland this season. ...

    Article : 937 words
  5. OUR MELBOURNE LETTER.

    THERE was plenty of racing again last week, no less than three registered fixtures being brought off, and all of them were well, attended, while there was some capital ...

    Article : 2,021 words
  6. TELLING A TALE.

    After the 14.1 race at Kensington bet Wednesday, Gladys had a snout on her more Roman than that of The Grafter. The rush she made, when it was too late, ...

    Article : 65 words
  7. THE SITER BIT.

    In New Zealand, as in New South Wales, the bookmakers' lives are not at all happy.At a recent Oamaru meeting a large number of bookies put in on appearance, and in ...

    Article : 142 words
  8. SCHLENTER SHOES,

    The pure party that guides the in and out capering of Cast Iron, got in a bit of half-smart work on Saturday at Moorefield. Cast Iron was sent out in the Flying ...

    Article : 142 words
  9. SPORTSMAN'S NOTE-BOOK.

    WHAT is there in trotting that makes it so tough? Survey it from the old Driving Park days to the present, and it has been redolent of robbery. At Brighton the other day there ...

    Article : 161 words
  10. A FAIR DEAL.

    Every joker that works off a cronk, or turns out faulty official work in connection with racing, appears to think THE SPORTSMAN has a down on him. No such thing. ...

    Article : 74 words
  11. GOOD BETTORS SOMETIMES.

    Some one mast have get a good cm out of Isola at Kensington, or else the Tommys were strong and not frightened to field. Judging by the parcels they showed into one ...

    Article : 52 words
  12. INGOMAR'S IMPOST.

    "A. Henson's Ingomar,aged; black white sleeve-knot; 9st 5lb." So runs the entry in the Kogarah Stakes at Moorefield last Saturday. I've not the pleasure of knowing "A. ...

    Article : 157 words
  13. TOD SLOAN.

    Tod Sloan went from England to America in August especially to ride Mr. C. Whitney's Ballyhoo Bey in the Futurity Stakes, and had the pleasure of winning. ...

    Article : 104 words
  14. LUCKY MAC.

    There's a modest young gentleman named McDermott, who is deoply interested in the doings of a pony called Dolly. Dolly competed or rather started, in a race at ...

    Article : 245 words
  15. CITY TATTS. AND CELEBRATIONS.

    I have been watching the capers of the curious Commonwealth Celebration Sectional Committee, and I couldn't help noticing that though the big Sydney Tattersall's ...

    Article : 160 words
  16. PORT PHILLIP TURF CLUB.

    Melbourne Was but five years old when the inhabitants formed the Port Phillip Turf Club, December 12, 1840, the first committee being J. D. Lyon Campbell, C. H. ...

    Article : 175 words
  17. KITTY'S CAPER.

    A " CooK" at the chirvys of the "Tommya" that bet at Brighton readily shows they are as bard as No. 1 Kiama blue metal. Years of battling have made them as tricky as a ...

    Article : 259 words
  18. PITS FOR PUNTERS.

    A simple caution, represented as severe, for outrageous riding is the worst that owners and jockeys need fear from the pony racing club stewards. Sometimes the owners fall ...

    Article : 187 words
  19. "GUNS."

    "Guns" in the lovely, languorous language of sportsman, is a term usually applied to individuals who close on anything they can get away with. There is ...

    Article : 256 words
  20. M'GROGAN'S CART-HORSE HOAX,

    There are some quaint customers in the country, and they do some curious things. A party named M'Grogan promoted a sort of hurry-scurry, ,catch-as-catch-can, ...

    Article : 337 words
  21. FUNNY BUT TRUE

    This is what makes a man bald headed trying to understand. Last Saturday at Moorefield, handicapper Quinton imposed the following weights. Flying Handicap, ...

    Article : 119 words
  22. MILLIONAIRE MILLER'S METHODS.

    In looking over the list of winners during the Caulfield Cup meeting, I can't help noticing the amount of luck or good management that must be credited to ...

    Article : 328 words
  23. TAKES A TRIP.

    A morning paper gravely announces that for the first time in his life a Mr. T. Evans will this year witness the running of the Melbourne Cup. Just fancy; the Melbourne ...

    Article : 118 words
  24. BENGONIA'S BEATING.

    LAST weak, under the above heading, among other things, I wrote: "Billy Pearson did not back the filly." Since then I have learned beyond all question that he ...

    Article : 114 words
  25. WOODHILL, NOT WOODHEAD.

    A Party by the name of Woodhill, painter by trade, and a ote-shop speculator also, undertook to take a pony [?] Forest Lodge last Monday, When the more (Ellen) was ...

    Article : 56 words
  26. FOOLHARDY FEAT.

    About 40 years ago Adam Lindsay Gordon, the poet, executed a reckless jump on horse back in the vicinity of the Blue Lake at Mount Gambler in South Australia. Since ...

    Article : 30 words
  27. M'MAHON MULCTED.

    A fraudulent bookie, some tome ago, one Hakel Maloof, made a wager of £10 with a bookmaker named Patrick M'Mahon, that J.Kally would win a handicap foot race at ...

    Article : 25 words
  28. ON THE TRACKS.

    The work on the training grounds last week was of the most interesting description. They are [?] just now than there have been for years ...

    Article : 1,183 words
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