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  4. KENSINGTON RACING CLUB'S KUDOS.

    IN our business columns will be found a notice of a new regulation of the Kensington Racing Club which [?] to force on September [?] and Another addendum to ...

    Article : 118 words
  5. NOTES AND NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.

    Chippy Norton has been gelded. Brighton races take place to-morrow. Theodora, the Grafton mare, has arrived in Sydney. ...

    Article : 1,989 words
  6. CLINGING TO CRICKET.

    THE tale is told that at the beginning of the Transvaal war Kruger called, De Wet to him and asked, "Who are those Australians—can they fight?" And De Wet said, ...

    Article : 307 words
  7. THE SPORTING SCANDAL.

    WHAT promised to develop into a gay and giddy sporting club scandal has fizzled out as flat as a pancake. So far as the SPORTSMAN can see, neither party to the dispute ...

    Article : 107 words
  8. THE MUSKET BLOOD.

    IT is impossible to overrate the value of the Musket blood to Australasian breeders, for it has proved invaluable, and studmasters have cause to bless the day that Mr. Thomas ...

    Article : 1,082 words
  9. SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK.

    PRICES at Rosehill on Saturday were tight enough for anything. For a backer to make a rise he would have to be dead on the spot every time. Taking the starting ...

    Article : 106 words
  10. MUSICAL MUNOINDI.

    MUNOINDI,of name lCup fame, is still progressing. Howld yer whist a second! "Baynes' Hall, December 26 and 27. Fifth and sixth grand performances of the ...

    Article : 181 words
  11. HANDICAPPING EXTRAORDINARY.

    ON November 2 there was a Fourteen Hands Hurdle Race at Forest Ledge, the minimum weight being 7[?]t 7lb. Following were the weights:—Yellow Mantle [?] 13lb, Melisse ...

    Article : 294 words
  12. SUCH IS FAME.

    HARRY TROTT, the well-known Victorian stricketer, who, as captain of the 1896 Australian Eleven that visited England, was such a distinct success, has evidently ...

    Article : 488 words
  13. WICKED WHEELMEN.

    BICYCLE racing has boomed in Australia until racers from the knowing Old World deem it not beneath them to come along and gather in Australian shekels. By ...

    Article : 393 words
  14. BARRED.

    TWELVE MONTHS ago the SPORTSMAN, in no measured terms. condemned certain pony racecourse proprietors for their callous desecration of Holy Days, such as ...

    Article : 237 words
  15. BEAN AT THE BOARD.

    "MRS.— provided one of her famous spreads, and some of us scored heavily at the luncheon table. There were lots of turkeys, but no ducks". "Just a small ...

    Article : 164 words
  16. A "MERRY" YARN.

    MR.MERRY, an American pressman had an owner of racehorses, who visited Australia in the Centennial year as representative of the United States at the Melbourne ...

    Article : 231 words
  17. THE JUDGE AND THE COPER.

    THE late Chief Justice Sir William Stawell was in his early days in Victoria a very horsey man, and was a consistent and plucky follower of the hounds, as "old George" ...

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  18. A WILLING WALK OVER.

    THE bold, bad young men who race at Brighton put up a job on the innocent silver shops of Sydney last week. When the nominations for the Bexley Handicap came ...

    Article : 226 words
  19. TAYLOR TIRED.

    NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that President Roosevelt had invited a negro to dine with him at the White House,and that several members of "toney" society followed suit, ...

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  20. PONY RACING RECOGNISED.

    ENGLISH exchanges state that the English Jockey Club has, in nature, decided to recognise pony and galloway racing. It would not be a bad thing if something of ...

    Article : 97 words
  21. WOOLER'S WOOL OFF.

    A RATHER unpleasant affair occurred at Botany in connection with M'Grory's last handicap. It appears that the running of W. Wooller in the seventh heat did not ...

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