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HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING On the readmission of strangers, at half-past eleven o'clock, Mr. T. Hughes was moving for leave to introduce a bill to amend the law relating to horse racing, when there were cheers from all parts of the House as the representatives of the ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1870
Newspaper: Stroud Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. RACING in England was originally instituted for the purpose of improving the breed of horses, and we fancy few will doubt that up to a certain point it had that effect, for the rules were strict and judicious, and were for a time honourably ...

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. The Daily Telegraph remarks that horse-racing is more than ever establishing its title to be regarded as the favourite sport of Englishmen, at a moment when the rich and high-born are withdrawing themselves more and more from active pa ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1873
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. The earliest authentic evidence we hear of horse racing as a public diversion in this country is in the reign of Henry 11. Fitzstephen, the friend and biographer of Thomas a Becket, tells rs that in his day there were horse ...

Published: Friday 13 April 1866
Newspaper: Tipperary Free Press
County: Tipperary, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 975 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING JUMPING COMPETITIONSĀ§ Cycle & Foot Races, &c., WILL WEI PLIOI On TURBDILY, AtTGIJBT Ist, 1899. Entries for Home Competitions close 6 o'clock p.m. JULY 29th. Late Entries Double Fees. Schedules and Entry Forme may be obtained of HERBERT HARM' ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1899
Newspaper: Ross Gazette
County: Herefordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 44 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. A Set of Six Original Drawings, prepard horn Chalk ketches. Two Shillings and Sixpence the Set. Handsomely mounted oa satin, 2s. 6(.1. each. GEORGE the THIRD. A Series of Six Female and Six Male Figures truly characteristic of the above ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1879
Newspaper: Fishing Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 49 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. Thb Granb Pbix de Paris. This has rarely been run for under more agreeable conditions to weather than on Sunday, for it was fine and warm without very much sun, while the race possessed genuine international character, owing the presence ...

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. The Quarterly lie view, some remarks on horse racing, places the Turf and its surroundings before the public in light which may not be pleasant reading for turfites, but which will generally endorsed by sober minded men. The river of ...

Published: Thursday 18 March 1886
Newspaper: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 741 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HORSE RACING

... HORSE RACING. PLEASANT weather favoured the concluding day of the Houghton Meeting at Newmarket on Friday (last week), when the Plate of 1000 mom was won by Prince Soltykoff's Sheen, General Byrne's Amphion being second, and Mr. Brampton's Oddfelow third ...

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; Its History and Early Records of the Principal and other Racq, Meetings, Anecdotes, &c. &c. Bvo. Rs. 8-6. TALES FOR ALL AGES. By W. H. G. Kingston. Illustrated. Square. Rs. 1-11. H.M.S. HANNIBAL AT PALERMO AND NAPLES During the Itlliau ...