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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... race horses , since we have so many of them upwards of six- teen hands high . Doncaster Races , last Number . -That must be an OBSERVATOR ; who else could set such jewels in print ? If such a thing can be , it is a good substitute for ...
... race horses , since we have so many of them upwards of six- teen hands high . Doncaster Races , last Number . -That must be an OBSERVATOR ; who else could set such jewels in print ? If such a thing can be , it is a good substitute for ...
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... racing , he does it con amore , and of course a capital letter follows . PHILO - EQUUS hopes I shall not feel hurt ... race capa- ble of continuing for a month at a certain number ( say fifty to sixty ) of miles per day without failing ...
... racing , he does it con amore , and of course a capital letter follows . PHILO - EQUUS hopes I shall not feel hurt ... race capa- ble of continuing for a month at a certain number ( say fifty to sixty ) of miles per day without failing ...
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... racing in your Number for December , I shall postpone further remarks on his letter till that period . So Mr. J ... race approached near- ly in form to the cow ; while the sterile heifer came more nearly to that of the bull ; and ...
... racing in your Number for December , I shall postpone further remarks on his letter till that period . So Mr. J ... race approached near- ly in form to the cow ; while the sterile heifer came more nearly to that of the bull ; and ...
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... race ordinary at Hereford , when the late Duke of Norfolk was one of the party : his Grace , as well as the rest of the company , finding the so - called wine quite undrink- able , very quickly summoned the worthy host of the hotel ...
... race ordinary at Hereford , when the late Duke of Norfolk was one of the party : his Grace , as well as the rest of the company , finding the so - called wine quite undrink- able , very quickly summoned the worthy host of the hotel ...
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... race did not create any interest . The Re- newed Doncaster Stakes was other- wise , there being twenty - nine sub- scribers , when Fleur de Lis , Acteon , Zirza , Brother to Jack Spiggot , Crowcatcher , and Lottery came to the post ...
... race did not create any interest . The Re- newed Doncaster Stakes was other- wise , there being twenty - nine sub- scribers , when Fleur de Lis , Acteon , Zirza , Brother to Jack Spiggot , Crowcatcher , and Lottery came to the post ...
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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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