The New sporting magazine, Volume 18 |
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... turf the present year has , so far , been one of no ordinary promise . Almost without a single excep- tion success waited where it was due ; while , as uniformly , discomfiture attended stratagem and artifice . It must have been a ...
... turf the present year has , so far , been one of no ordinary promise . Almost without a single excep- tion success waited where it was due ; while , as uniformly , discomfiture attended stratagem and artifice . It must have been a ...
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... turf previous to the sale of his enormous stud to the nobleman who now occupies the same pro- minent position in the racing world . Alas ! Don Cæsar de Bazan , you are not the only frank , free spirit that " the rascals cleaned out ...
... turf previous to the sale of his enormous stud to the nobleman who now occupies the same pro- minent position in the racing world . Alas ! Don Cæsar de Bazan , you are not the only frank , free spirit that " the rascals cleaned out ...
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... turf may have been the means of introducing a superior quality of blood into the English stud ; but yacht racing in hulls put ( or rather stuck ) together for the sake of speed , and speed only in light weather , can never confer any ...
... turf may have been the means of introducing a superior quality of blood into the English stud ; but yacht racing in hulls put ( or rather stuck ) together for the sake of speed , and speed only in light weather , can never confer any ...
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... turf should be ministered to with the like social encouragements and financial precautions . We will suppose the metropolis provided with its racing club , and Doncaster , York , Chester , and other provincial head - quarters of the turf ...
... turf should be ministered to with the like social encouragements and financial precautions . We will suppose the metropolis provided with its racing club , and Doncaster , York , Chester , and other provincial head - quarters of the turf ...
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... turf practice as Running Rein's victory for the Derby , or Leander's death for ditto ; therefore let the member of the turf qualify for appearing upon it as men do for other class pur- poses . If there must be professional betting - for ...
... turf practice as Running Rein's victory for the Derby , or Leander's death for ditto ; therefore let the member of the turf qualify for appearing upon it as men do for other class pur- poses . If there must be professional betting - for ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 49 - And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her; In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
Página 268 - In the space of forty miles," says a writer, "which includes the whole course of the river from the highest and wildest parts of the Peak to the town of Derby, scenery more richly diversified with beauty can hardly anywhere be found. Generally, its banks are luxuriantly wooded ; the oak, the elm, the alder, and the ash, flourish abundantly along its course, beneath the shade of whose united branches the Derwent is sometimes secluded from the eye of the traveller, and becomes a companion for the ear...
Página 265 - Are puddle-water all compared with thine ; And Loire's pure streams yet too polluted are With thine, much purer, to compare; The rapid Garonne and the winding Seine Are both too mean, Beloved Dove, with thee To vie priority ; Nay, Tame and Isis, when conjoined, submit, And lay their trophies at thy silver feet.
Página 43 - S1b., five 9st., six and aged 9st. 31b. ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. ; to start at the Cup post, and go once round and in, about two miles and a half (23 subscribers).
Página 373 - In estimating the value of any prize no deduction shall be made, except of the winner's own stake and of any sum or sums required by the conditions to be paid out of the stakes to the owners of any other horse or horses in the race — the entrance for a plate not to be deducted.
Página 84 - ... Under his proud survey the city lies, And, like a mist beneath a hill, doth rise ; Whose state and wealth, the business and the crowd, Seem at this distance but a darker cloud ; And is, to him who rightly things esteems.
Página 223 - I. ARISTOCRACIES. To predict the Future, to manage the Present, would not be so impossible, had not the Past been so sacrilegiously mishandled ; effaced, and what is worse, defaced ! The Past cannot be seen ; the Past, looked at through the medinm of
Página 276 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Página 145 - CALEDONIA ! thou land of the mountain and rock, Of the ocean, the mist, and the wind ; Thou land of the torrent, the pine, and the oak, Of the roebuck, the hart, and the hind ; Though bare are thy cliffs, and though barren thy glens, Though bleak thy dun islands appear, Yet kind are the hearts and undaunted the clans That roam on these mountains so drear.
Página 362 - It has a strange quick jar upon the ear, That cocking of a pistol, when you know A moment more will bring the sight to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off, or so ; A gentlemanly distance, not too near, If you have got a former friend for foe ; But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.