The love for horse-riding and its concomitants has evidently not expired, for excellent audiences have gathered every night to see Young Raphael, Mrs. Yeamans, the dancing dogs, et hoc genus omne of the ...
Article : 809 wordsW. H. H—Voltigeur won the Derby the year after the Flying Dutchman's Dorby. The Dutchman is now 12 years old, and Voltigeur 11 years. A. J. S.—At loo you could not trump, holding one of ...
Article : 721 wordsAlthough there have been no sporting events to chronicle, this has not been altogether an idle week with us. more than one move having been made in a dircetion to afford amusement on future occasions. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsVICTORIA JOCKEY CLUB.— On Monday evening, 2nd August, at the Union Hotel, for the Australian Sires Produce Stakes, sires to be named. Also for the Derby and Leger, of 1858 and 1859 (see advertisement in front ...
Article : 203 wordsThis Day, July 24.—Rose"s Devonshire Arms, Brighten hald-past one. G.WATSON, Master. The M'Ivor kangaroo hounds meet at the Mount [?] Heathcote, the second and fourth Wednesday of every month. ...
Article : 38 wordsSir,—The New Town races this week will close the present racing season, and I wish through your columns to make a few observations relative to the system pursued in this country, which, as it at present obtains, ...
Article : 1,645 wordsIN the absence of any exciting political topic which might offer itself as the event of the day, we notice that some amongst our cotemporaries, who choose neither to join in n rabid howl of ...
Article : 1,120 wordsEMERY AND MR.DAVIES.—An exciting two hundred yards' spin came off on Monday last at the Turf Hotel, Ballaarat, between Emery, the well-known pedestri[?], and Mr. Davies, an amateur in the same "line of ...
Article : 460 wordsThe boards of this theatre, which for six weeks have been occupied exclusively by Professor Anderson, will shortly be trod again by the knights of the sock and buskin. The Wizard has drawn excellent houses all along, ...
Article : 797 wordsBROCK AND ECCLESON.—We have received the [?] deposit of £10 a side in this match. THE ART OF SELF DEFENCE. —Young Dallas continues to give lessons in this useful art at his room, in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 504 wordsWe have much pleasure in announcing that a match between Chevalier and Gratis has been completed. From the time Mr. Obee bought Chevalier it has been known that he was open to run anything in the colony ...
Article : 1,557 wordsIt is curious to observe the gradual improvement the science of the art of self-defence—from the ungainly attitudes and chopping round hits of Broughton and Slack, to the grace, case, and quickness of a Sayers, [?] ...
Article : 1,477 wordsDEAR BELL,—Your last number has given me more sincere pleasure as an old sporting man, than any I have yet seen. The promptitude with which the Jockey Club took up the now-proved " Walkover and Kinchen" ...
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