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  3. THE RETIREMENT OF ADVANCE.

    AUSTRALIAN sportsmen will be sorry to hear of the breakdown of Advance, the plucky New Zealander, who carried all before him in his own colony, and would probably have ...

    Article : 246 words
  4. SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK.

    OUR Sydney police force appears to be periodically attacked with spasms of virtuous energy, relief for which can only be obtained by raiding some ...

    Article : 454 words
  5. SPORT JOTTINGS.

    Kensington races to-day. The Oaks has foaled a filly to the imported site Positano. Allinga, it is rumored, goes to the stud in ...

    Article : 1,843 words
  6. HOT HANDICAPPING.

    IF ever there was occasion for the public to present the handicapper with a testimonial the late A.J.C. meeting provided it. Throughout the whole meeting, almost ...

    Article : 235 words
  7. A DERBY COUPLE.

    HAUTVILLERS and Crasspan will cause a lot of speculation when the brace meet in the V.R.C. Derby. On the A.J.C. Derby form, it looked any odds on the Melbourne crack, ...

    Article : 112 words
  8. FUNNY FORM.

    IT has been "carried unanimously" that more red-hot roaring ramps were worked off at the late Randwick race meeting than is usual at Randwick race meeting. Horses ...

    Article : 171 words
  9. DR. ROSS.

    THE old adage that the man with one idea will eventually impress its value upon people if he is only persistent does not always hold true, and a case in point is Dr. ...

    Article : 277 words
  10. THIRSTY TATTERSALLIANS.

    To celebrate their Epsom and Metrop. wins, Messrs. Mayo and Williams, the respective owners of Sequence and San Fran, pulled all the corks out of the bottle in the bar at ...

    Article : 136 words
  11. LORD RUDOLPH LOSES.

    LORD RUDOLPH was expected by the public to win when the right money went on him. He started an equal favorite with Sirdar and Lucknow in the Waverley ...

    Article : 98 words
  12. THE DUKE AND THE LATE PRESIDENT.

    IT has been suggested in Montreal that the Duke of Cornwall and York, who is now in Canada, should represent his father, the King, and the British race at the State ...

    Article : 177 words
  13. KANGAROO HUNTING HEROICS.

    MR. COPELAND is obviously neglecting his duties—his literary duties—as our Agent-General. The burly Yorkshireman. who is no small potato with the pen, was prompt ...

    Article : 342 words
  14. INCREASED STAKES IN N.Z.

    NEW ZEALAND is, if it be possible, more devoted to horse racing even than Victoria and New South Wales, and, taking the North and South Islands together, they ...

    Article : 353 words
  15. TOTE CHARGES.

    As an instance of "tote" charges, the following is furnished by our Queensland correspondent :—Of the £4088 10s handled by the machine at the Q.T.C. meeting last ...

    Article : 202 words
  16. TICKET THIEVES.

    QUITE an industry is being created in "brief" snatching at race meetings. Put in plain language, his means that a gang of guns toiler around a bookmaker's stand ...

    Article : 212 words
  17. THE TRAM SERVICE.

    THERE is some excuse for the inconvenience to which the travelling public have been put lately through the stoppage of the trams, in as much as accidents are liable to happen ...

    Article : 195 words
  18. THE AUTOMOBILE.

    THE automobile appears to have come to Australia to stay, and, generally speaking, is beginning to yun the horse pretty close as a luxuriant indulgence for the moneyed ...

    Article : 362 words
  19. THE FISHERMAN BLOOD.

    ENGLISH stud[?]masters regard Fisherman, by Heron, who was imported to South Australia by M. Hurtle Fisher, as one of the gamest horses ever foaled. In 1856 he ...

    Article : 324 words
  20. THE DELIGHTS OF SNAKE POISONING.

    WHAT kind of savages must they think we are in England ? Just listen to this Australian snake yarn, which we have clipped, more in sorrow than in anger, from ...

    Article : 283 words
  21. SLOAN STYLE.

    The A.J.C. meeting has demonstrated beyond disputation that the Sloan style of riding in races has come to stay, and is lengths an improvement on the old method. ...

    Article : 258 words
  22. THE ROWING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    HAVING allowed the Unconsidered Towns to win the championship "on his own," local aquatic men are now exciting their powerful minds on the question "what the champion ...

    Article : 240 words
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