The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.John William Carleton 1870 |
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... selling stakes , but with no hope of hearing anything to their advantage . These races were a clumsy inven- tion at best , and only a few months since we saw 20 gs . most palpably extracted from a buyer by an auctioneer , who took ...
... selling stakes , but with no hope of hearing anything to their advantage . These races were a clumsy inven- tion at best , and only a few months since we saw 20 gs . most palpably extracted from a buyer by an auctioneer , who took ...
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... selling on the second Monday of the month ; for Elsham by Knowsley , the 870 guinea yearling of Fairfield , hardly a reasonable bidder could be found , so he returned to his place . A King John out of Gossamer yearling made 140 gs ...
... selling on the second Monday of the month ; for Elsham by Knowsley , the 870 guinea yearling of Fairfield , hardly a reasonable bidder could be found , so he returned to his place . A King John out of Gossamer yearling made 140 gs ...
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... selling a horse for a hunter at a profitable price were hope- less . The consequence would be , the country in general would suffer . Could it be expected that farmers would be at the expense , trouble , and risk of breeding if they had ...
... selling a horse for a hunter at a profitable price were hope- less . The consequence would be , the country in general would suffer . Could it be expected that farmers would be at the expense , trouble , and risk of breeding if they had ...
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... selling it . True blood horses of the Khomse , as I have been credibly informed , seldom find their way to Basra ; and most of the horses purchased there for the Indian market belong to the Montefek Arabs , who are not very solicitous ...
... selling it . True blood horses of the Khomse , as I have been credibly informed , seldom find their way to Basra ; and most of the horses purchased there for the Indian market belong to the Montefek Arabs , who are not very solicitous ...
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... Selling Plate of 301 .; 1 mi . 2 fur . Ulan , by Voltigeur , 4 yrs , 8st 4lb G. Sopp 1 Edna , 3 yrs , 6st 131b- J. Clark 2 Sting , 3 yrs , 7st 4lb Bartlett 3 Veda , 4 yrs , 8at 111b 8. Adams 4 Belle of the Vale , 8st 91b Foote 0 5 to 4 ...
... Selling Plate of 301 .; 1 mi . 2 fur . Ulan , by Voltigeur , 4 yrs , 8st 4lb G. Sopp 1 Edna , 3 yrs , 6st 131b- J. Clark 2 Sting , 3 yrs , 7st 4lb Bartlett 3 Veda , 4 yrs , 8at 111b 8. Adams 4 Belle of the Vale , 8st 91b Foote 0 5 to 4 ...
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15 agst 30 agst 7st 4lb 8st 7lb aged agst agst Lady Arabs bad third beat Bois Roussel Butler Cameron Cannon Capt Carrott Chaloner cheers Club Colonel colt Corringham cricket Custance Derby Droxford filly Fordham four lengths gentlemen Gradwell half a length Handicap Plate head between second Honfleur horse hounds Hudson Hunt Hunter Hurdle Race I'Anson Jarvis Jeffery Jewitt Kenyon Kilkenny Killick King King Tom lengths between second Lord Maidment mare Master meeting Meredyth Miss Mizen neck never Newmarket Newminster Parry Plate Hp Plate of 501 ridden round Royal Scarrington season second and third Selling six lengths sovs sport Stakes Hp Steeple Chase Sweepstakes Thormanby three lengths tween second Vespasian Watkins Webb Wild Wilson winner Won by half Won by six Won by three Won easily Wyatt yr olds Zouave
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Página 350 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 442 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa ! The moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awaked ! [Music ceases.
Página 439 - Breathes there a man, with soul so dead Who never to himself has said, ' This is my own, my native land...
Página 38 - ... rushes of the liquid lake. The geese fly o'er the barn ; the bees in arms, Drive headlong from their waxen cells in swarms. Jack Straw at London-stone, with all his rout, Struck not the city with so loud a shout ; Not when with English hate they did pursue A Frenchman, or an unbelieving Jew; Not when the welkin rung with ' one and all ;' And echoes bounded back from Fox's hall ; Earth seemed to sink beneath, and heaven above to fall.
Página 197 - And greedily sucks in th' unfaithful food ; Then downward plunges with the fraudful prey, And bears with joy the little spoil away ; Soon in smart pain he feels the dire mistake, Lashes the wave, and beats the foamy lake, With sudden rage he now aloft appears, And in his eye convulsive anguish bears ; And now again, impatient of the wound, He rolls and...
Página 350 - Yet are ye not, Sporting in tree and air, more beautiful Than the young lambs, that from the valley-side Send a soft bleating like an infant's voice, Half happy, half afraid ! O blessed things ! At sight of this your perfect innocence, The sterner thoughts of manhood melt away Into a mood as mild as woman's dreams.
Página 197 - Now hope exalts the fisher's beating heart, Now he turns pale, and fears his dubious art ; He views the tumbling fish with longing eyes, While the line stretches with th...
Página 197 - Soon in smart pain he feels the dire mistake, lashes the wave, and beats the foamy lake ; With sudden rage he now aloft appears, And in his eye convulsive anguish bears ; And now again, impatient of the wound, He rolls and wreathes his shining body round ; Then headlong shoots beneath the dashing tide, The trembling fins the boiling wave divide.
Página 56 - Of a' the games that e'er I saw, Man, callant, laddie birkie wean. The dearest, far aboon them a', Was aye the witching channel stane.
Página 443 - It has been wisely fostered by our sovereigns, who have felt that the security of the kingdom, is increased by every man being more or less a sailor, or connected with the nautical profession.