Sporting Magazine: Or, Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit, Volume 23; Volume 73Rogerson & Tuxford, 1829 - Hunting |
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... looks like business . On inquiring for the little brown mare Faulk- ner used to ride himself , he in- formed me she was at grass . The remainder of the stud also were very promising , and in capital condition ; but as their performances ...
... looks like business . On inquiring for the little brown mare Faulk- ner used to ride himself , he in- formed me she was at grass . The remainder of the stud also were very promising , and in capital condition ; but as their performances ...
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... look through his stables , where I saw one or two likely horses ; but altogether his stud was rather indifferent . On my arrival at the Hoop , I sat down to a capital dinner and bottle of wine , finding nothing to complain of , except ...
... look through his stables , where I saw one or two likely horses ; but altogether his stud was rather indifferent . On my arrival at the Hoop , I sat down to a capital dinner and bottle of wine , finding nothing to complain of , except ...
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... look otherwise than cloudy and dark in their coats ; but no sooner , as their noble owner has often remarked , are they taken to what is apparently a dog - hole of a place about ten miles off , but built upon a gravelly soil , than they ...
... look otherwise than cloudy and dark in their coats ; but no sooner , as their noble owner has often remarked , are they taken to what is apparently a dog - hole of a place about ten miles off , but built upon a gravelly soil , than they ...
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... look most awful . They certainly keep a barrel clean ; but so does old hat , to which I have been partial from my youth up . So of all people in the world ( as I see in the daily papers ) Lincoln- shire farmers , who , before intellect ...
... look most awful . They certainly keep a barrel clean ; but so does old hat , to which I have been partial from my youth up . So of all people in the world ( as I see in the daily papers ) Lincoln- shire farmers , who , before intellect ...
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... look of both . I took a more particular survey of the grand favorite , Sapling - a stallion hound from Mr. Warde - and I own I am not so much pleased with him , on a quiet examination , as when I have seen him working most admirably ...
... look of both . I took a more particular survey of the grand favorite , Sapling - a stallion hound from Mr. Warde - and I own I am not so much pleased with him , on a quiet examination , as when I have seen him working most admirably ...
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25 sovs 50 sovs added aged ages.-Heats agst August Bay filly bay horse Beardsworth's beat Sir betting Biggs's Blacklock Brother Brown filly Catton coach Colonel Comus covert dam Sister Deciding Course Derby distance dogs Doncaster Duke East Lothian Eclipse Epsom Filho da Puta five sovs Foaled following also started Gold Cup value Goodlake's grandam Grey Grosvenor's half Highflyer horses hounds Hunt Jockey kennel Lady lameness Leger Leger Stakes Lord Bolingbroke Lord Derby Lord Fitzwilliam Lord Grosvenor Marske match Matchem miles never Newmarket NIMROD Number October Meeting Orville pack pounds PURSE of 501 race ride season shew sport sportsman Spring Meeting STAKES of five subscribers Sweepstakes of five Tamboff tion Tiresias twice round value 100 sovs Vivian's Walton Whalebone Whisker winner Won easy won the Stakes Young yrs old
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Page 303 - When the qualification of any horse is objected to by ten o'clock in the morning of the day of starting, the owner must produce a certificate, or other proper document, to the Steward, or clerk of the course, or to the keeper of the match-book, if the case happen at Newmarket, before the race is run, to prove the qualification of the horse; and if he shall start his horse without so doing, the prize shall be withheld for a period tobe fixed upon by the Stewards, en the expiration of which time, if...
Page 301 - Newmarket shall be weighed immediately after the same, and shall be allowed -16 above the weight specified for his horse to carry, and no more, unless the weight he actually rode be declared as the weight he intended to ride : and if any horse shall carry more than...
Page 52 - Twas a handsome milk-maid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care and sung like a nightingale.
Page 299 - ... notes, payable on demand, and be paid into the hands of the person appointed by the Stewards to receive the same: and in default thereof by any person, he shall pay the whole stake as a loser, whether his horse came in first or not, unless such person shall have previously obtained the consent of the party or parties with whom he is engaged, to his not staking.
Page 302 - ... and if there have been any false starts, the first of them shall be considered as the time of starting for that race. And he shall make a report thereof to the Keeper of the Match-book in the afternoon of the day the races are run. And if any delay...
Page 302 - Match-book shall charge the proprietors of such horses as receive forfeit, and shall be excused from appearing, with the same fees for weights and scales as if they had come over the course.
Page 302 - When any match or sweepstakes shall be made, and no course mentioned, the course shall be that which is usually run by horses of the same age as those engaged ; viz. If yearlings, the Yearling Course.
Page 347 - Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued : And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
Page 301 - The Whip may be challenged for on the Monday or Tuesday in the Second Spring or October Meeting in each year ; and the acceptance must be signified, or the Whip resigned, before the end of the same meeting. If challenged for and accepted in the Spring, to be run for on the Tuesday in the Second October Meeting following ; and if in the October, on the Thursday in the Second Spring Meeting following, BC weight, 10sU, and to stake 20U sovs.
Page 298 - ... established meetings, between the hours of eleven and one o'clock in the morning. Each candidate must be proposed by a member of the Jockey Club, and his Christian and surname and usual place of abode, with the name of the member proposing him, be put up in the Coffee-room the day before the ballot. Members of the Jockey Club only can ballot.