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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... thing would scarcely have been bearable . Only think of a thing being kept in training in these times , receiving eighteen pounds ( which Blossom did ) from a bad horse of the same year ! A scarcity of good horses , or an increase of ...
... thing would scarcely have been bearable . Only think of a thing being kept in training in these times , receiving eighteen pounds ( which Blossom did ) from a bad horse of the same year ! A scarcity of good horses , or an increase of ...
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... things considered , and would be thought dear in almost any other hands : but his Lordship is so good a judge , his management so per- feet , and every thing he under- takes he does so well , that little doubt is entertained but she ...
... things considered , and would be thought dear in almost any other hands : but his Lordship is so good a judge , his management so per- feet , and every thing he under- takes he does so well , that little doubt is entertained but she ...
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... thing short of the most advanta- geous position . These opposites , with others equally unwilling to give way , created difficulties ea- sily conceived . Green Mantle came in first ; Canary , a very good second ; with two or three ...
... thing short of the most advanta- geous position . These opposites , with others equally unwilling to give way , created difficulties ea- sily conceived . Green Mantle came in first ; Canary , a very good second ; with two or three ...
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... thing , and has now , I be- lieve , an entire pack of his own hounds ; and certainly altogether I cannot remember any pack which has pleased me so well at the co- vert side . Their condition is su- perb ; and in covert they are very ...
... thing , and has now , I be- lieve , an entire pack of his own hounds ; and certainly altogether I cannot remember any pack which has pleased me so well at the co- vert side . Their condition is su- perb ; and in covert they are very ...
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... thing approaching to damp in the foundation , would be a waste both of time and of words : but it is curious to remark the immense difference in point of dryness and healthiness of situation that a very short distance will sometimes pro ...
... thing approaching to damp in the foundation , would be a waste both of time and of words : but it is curious to remark the immense difference in point of dryness and healthiness of situation that a very short distance will sometimes pro ...
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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.