The stakes in each of those matches were made good last evening at Tattersall's. There was a very strong muster of sporting men in the Subscription Room, and some business was done at 6 to 5 on Cooramin agst ...
Article : 149 wordsOn the eve of the great race which is to decide the respective merits of the two best horses in New South Wales and Victoria, it may not be uninteresting to hark back to the origin of the match, and to inquire how it ...
Article : 2,590 wordsSIR,—A few final words on the Great Match between New South Wales and Victoria. The mare passed through her last examination this morning, and pulled up after a good breather without turning a hair. So far, ...
Article : 595 wordsSIR,—Following the opinion I have expressed about the first match, I come to the conclusion that Van Tromp will win his match with Veno, although I should not affect him, were it Veno's first essay. In the match ...
Article : 840 wordsSIR,—This meeting commences on Wednesday next, and the programme promises to be one of the most successful over offered to the public of Victoria. And, indeed, if abundance of sport, in which our best horses ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,740 wordsSome five thousand persons congregated at and near the Devonshire Arms, Brighton, on the above day, to witness the coming off of this crack affair, which has been for the last fortnight one of the principal topics ...
Article : 2,033 wordsThe general out-doors public—both racing men and tyros—are placed in peculiar circumstances of doubt as to the result of the intensely exciting struggle of to-day, the main cause of uncertainty being that no satisfactory ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 wordsTOM SMITH TO JOSEPH WHITELY.—Smith is rather surprised at Whitely challenging him, after having kept him hanging about Melbourne no long ; but if he means business Smith will run him three quarters of a mile for ...
Article : 99 words17.—Running Match of a mile, at the Turf Inn, Ballaarat, for £20 and a sweepstakes of £1. ...
Article : 16 wordsSIR,—In Bell's Life of the 26th instant, it mentions as a probability, a meeting of two big-'uns to content the Championship of the Colonies—the only obstacle being the difficulty of finding a man of sufficient "pluck and ...
Article : 331 wordsDEAR BELL,—Every lover of racing must hail with delight the establishment of a grand Produce Stakes, especially under such favourable auspices. I refer of course to Dr. Bathe's proposition, at Tattersall's, at the ...
Article : 599 wordsMISTHER HEDITHOR DARLINT.—Bedad I'll airn my tin twilve pinnis to-day agra, and shure many's the sportsman 'll arin his tins ov pouns. by taking the advhico in this lotther. Widout any bathershin av explanashun ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 wordsTHE "ARGUS" TURNED DETECTIVE.—Our daily contemporary of the "hundred eyes" has exercised his censorious functions rather too freely by informing the public that, by the Wonga Wonga, a pack of flash men, ...
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