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EMBELLISHMENTS . 66 E. FLATMAN , ALIAS NAT " ; THE CELEBRATED JOCKEY . ENGRAVED BY J. B. HUNT , FROM A PAINTING BY HARRY HALL . AND " WEST AUSTRALIAN , " WINNER OF THE DERBY , 1853 . ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER , FROM A PAINTING BY HARRY HALL ...
EMBELLISHMENTS . 66 E. FLATMAN , ALIAS NAT " ; THE CELEBRATED JOCKEY . ENGRAVED BY J. B. HUNT , FROM A PAINTING BY HARRY HALL . AND " WEST AUSTRALIAN , " WINNER OF THE DERBY , 1853 . ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER , FROM A PAINTING BY HARRY HALL ...
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... JOCKEY . ENGRAVED BY J. B. HUNT , FROM A PAINTING BY HARRY HALL . BY CASTOR . It is now some five - and - twenty years since a small boy , with a small bundle , found himself at his journey's end in Newmarket town , and at the door of ...
... JOCKEY . ENGRAVED BY J. B. HUNT , FROM A PAINTING BY HARRY HALL . BY CASTOR . It is now some five - and - twenty years since a small boy , with a small bundle , found himself at his journey's end in Newmarket town , and at the door of ...
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... jockey of the day ; although the greater part of his early life , up to fourteen or fifteen years of age , was ... jockeys , pursuing , in fact , that line - and - rule career so necessary , Nat gradually progressed from riding exercise ...
... jockey of the day ; although the greater part of his early life , up to fourteen or fifteen years of age , was ... jockeys , pursuing , in fact , that line - and - rule career so necessary , Nat gradually progressed from riding exercise ...
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... jockey ever appeared in so many . Riding up to 1840 under seven stone , with power far above his weight , and a head a long way in advance of his years , it is not surprising to find him so much in request . His luck , too , has backed ...
... jockey ever appeared in so many . Riding up to 1840 under seven stone , with power far above his weight , and a head a long way in advance of his years , it is not surprising to find him so much in request . His luck , too , has backed ...
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... jockey's income comes to be reckoned by thousands . Let us try from a glance at our digests to revive a few of these " good things . " In 1841 , Nat won the Ascot Stakes for Mr. Payne , on Welfare ; in 1844 , this same race for the same ...
... jockey's income comes to be reckoned by thousands . Let us try from a glance at our digests to revive a few of these " good things . " In 1841 , Nat won the Ascot Stakes for Mr. Payne , on Welfare ; in 1844 , this same race for the same ...
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Página 204 - There is a stone there, that whoever kisses, Oh! he never misses to grow eloquent. 'Tis he may clamber to a lady's chamber, Or become a member of parliament: A clever spouter he'll sure turn out, or An out-and-outer, "to be let alone," Don't hope to hinder him, or to bewilder him; Sure he's a pilgrim from the Blarney stone!
Página 69 - ... and I would not have believed it, if I had not seen it...
Página 256 - no house, office, room or other place shall be opened, kept or used for the purpose of the owner, occupier or keeper thereof, or any person using the same, or...
Página 372 - ... information upon which the conviction takes place, and the remaining half shall be applied in aid of the poor rate of the parish in which the offence shall have been committed, and shall be paid for that purpose to the overseer or other person authorized to receive poor rates in snch...
Página 138 - ... race, shall be disqualified for winning the race, whether such jostle or cross happened by the swerving of the horse, or by the foul and careless riding of the jockey, or otherwise...
Página 155 - Such is the aspect of this shore ; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there.
Página 224 - Straight down the Crooked Lane And all round the Square.
Página 305 - At a Meeting of the Jockey Club, held on Thursday in the Second October Meeting, 1838, which was very numerously attended, it was unanimously resolved:— That it is the opinion of this Club that it is necessary to declare their extreme disapprobation of horses being started for races without the intention, on the part of their owners, of trying to win them.
Página 256 - AN ACT for the Suppression of Betting Houses. [20tA August, 1853.] WHEREAS a kind of gaming has of late sprung up tending to the injury and demoralization of improvident persons by the opening of places called betting houses or offices, and the receiving of money in advance by the owners or occupiers of such houses or offices, or by other persons acting on their behalf, on their promises to pay money on events of horse races and the like contingencies : for the suppression thereof be it enacted as...
Página 352 - A bound and a hawk no longer Shall be symptoms of disaffection ; A cock-fight shall cease to be breach of the peace, And a horse-race an insurrection.