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 19; Volume 69Rogerson & Tuxford., 1827 - Hunting |
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... never wish to see in the hands of my enemies ; however , they look pretty to strangers while they are running , and , to those who bet for betting's sake , make quite as good sport . A four - year - old of Colonel Wilson's by Tiresias ...
... never wish to see in the hands of my enemies ; however , they look pretty to strangers while they are running , and , to those who bet for betting's sake , make quite as good sport . A four - year - old of Colonel Wilson's by Tiresias ...
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... never saw exceeded except once . Mort- gage recovered first , and there are some who still think him the best horse : I , however , am not one of those ; Chateau Margaux is the finest animal , with more length , and a finer stride ...
... never saw exceeded except once . Mort- gage recovered first , and there are some who still think him the best horse : I , however , am not one of those ; Chateau Margaux is the finest animal , with more length , and a finer stride ...
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... never caught . It was whispered about that all was not right ; or , as fighters say , " Rufus called bellows to mend ! " SECOND OCTOBER MEETING . I was agreeably surprized , on arriving at the Coffee - house gates on Monday morning , to ...
... never caught . It was whispered about that all was not right ; or , as fighters say , " Rufus called bellows to mend ! " SECOND OCTOBER MEETING . I was agreeably surprized , on arriving at the Coffee - house gates on Monday morning , to ...
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... never reached his Grace's ear . The Prendergast Stakes of 50 sovs , each , twenty - one subscribers , was won by his Majesty's or the Duke of York's filly by Waterloo , dam Belvoirina ; and had his Royal Highness seen it , I am sure it ...
... never reached his Grace's ear . The Prendergast Stakes of 50 sovs , each , twenty - one subscribers , was won by his Majesty's or the Duke of York's filly by Waterloo , dam Belvoirina ; and had his Royal Highness seen it , I am sure it ...
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... never defaced by soap la- Canterbury , September 25 , 1826 . ther , although they may have trot- : ted by fourteen or fifteen mile- stones at no slow pace . The Ba- ronet's own coachman may also be considered by no means an unskil- ful ...
... never defaced by soap la- Canterbury , September 25 , 1826 . ther , although they may have trot- : ted by fourteen or fifteen mile- stones at no slow pace . The Ba- ronet's own coachman may also be considered by no means an unskil- ful ...
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25 sovs 50 sovs aged ages.-Heats agst All-Aged Stakes Arachne Ardrossan beat Beningbrough betting Biggs's Blacklock breed Brother Catton coach Colonel colts Comus course courser covert Derby Dick Doncaster Duke of Grafton's Duke of Leeds's Duke of Portland's Fanny Davies favorite Filho da Puta fillies five sovs following also started fox-hounds fox-hunting Gold Cup value grandam Greville's Grosvenor's Hambletonian hare heats horses Hoskins's Houldsworth's hounds hunters hunting huntsman Leger Leger Stakes Lord Exeter's Lord Scarbrough's Lord Wharncliffe's mare match Meeting ment Merlin miles Mytton's never Newmarket NIMROD Number Orville pack Petre's PURSE of 501 race shew Sister sport sportsman Stakes stallion subscribers SWEEPSTAKES SWEEPSTAKES of five Tatler three-year-olds tion Tiresias Tramp TUESDAY Turf Walton WEDNESDAY Whalebone Whisker winner Won easy Wyndham's Young yrs old
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