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HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. LOH A HURDLE RACE. - I irat, £9 ; second, £3 3s. Distance about two tidies ; horse to carry lo stoue--1, Mr Armstrong's Craig lwd t 2, Mr Ilanishay'a I'atiriwe ; 3, Mr Weir's Flora. Five an. £5 • I'ONA RACE. First, • second, ...

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. Lord REDISIDALZ introduced a bill, which WO/ read • first time, to provide that • bone starting • race should carry • lees weight thee 7 atone. iie stated that his object was to endeavour to some extent to pat down gambling on the turf. ...

HORSE RACING

... seductive to the young and inexperienced. If horse-racing ended here, however, it might be tolerated as among the fashionable follies of the country. But its greatest evil is less patent to public observation. Horse-racing is accompanied in England by wide spread ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1856
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1388 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. The sport of horse-racing has become a mere vehicle for gambling. A dozen drops of rain trickling down window pane, or a dozen blue-bottles buzzing about lump sugar, would do quite as well for the betting men, as the horses ...

Published: Thursday 24 October 1861
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 402 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING I.—A Horse Race, in heats, twice round a course formed on the sands : let horse, £5; 2d horse, .£l. Entry money, ss. 6 horses ran, the winners being T. Cowan's ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1856
Newspaper: Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald
County: Ayrshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. Hurdle Races—l, Mr Todd's Catherine; 2, Mr Chalmers' Caprice. Pony Race-1, Mr Saunders' Lady Graham; 2, Mr A. Rider's I'll Try. Flat Race-1, Mr Todd's Catherine ; 2, Mr Chalmers' Caprice. Consolation Stakes—l, Mr Todd's ...

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. Mnu, fIr .-Iies' moventetnt for the reform of the Turf has got a lift from the results of the last -week's racing. The i)crby was simply a sample of the folly of the turf prophets. They went one prophesyiing to the last, but tever itnagi ...

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. Tin Saturday Reriao, In article on the turf, after soma preliminary remarks concerning the resolution oi the House of Commous to adjourn for the Derby day, •ays:— Mr Gladstone’s declaration that the House regarded horse-racing as noble, ...

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. “St Leger says racing now consists in making money out of horses without running them, and thinks racing is in bad way. The Standard fails to see that the gambling side of racing is attended with ...

HORSE RACING

... put ,d uan end to Handicap Races altogether, and exclude fromti al( the g>round every One suspected of rillllisshg horses to it I lose, These are thte nails souroes of the mischief. 1, When even enec of position rum their horses to lose, in i- order to ...

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. The sport of horse-racing has become a mere vehicle for gambling. A dozen drops of rain trickling down window pane, or dozen blue-bottles buxzing about lump of sugar, would do quite well for the betting men. the horses that ...

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. tpoctal rorraapondaut of the Fima to Spain writes:—Tba horae raciug this year hat beta vary anccaasful Spaia. la Spain, aa to Kraaca, Italy, aad alsawhera, tha apart is tatiraly exalte, and awaaea, traiaara, riders arc uoally etrangare to ...

Published: Monday 18 August 1879
Newspaper: Glasgow Evening Citizen
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1781 | Page: 4 | Tags: none