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... occasion when the performers are race - horses than when they are ships . Some tempers give way on seeing the hiatus which separates them from their field , and refuse to lessen it when they are called upon . Others rush it , and beat ...
... occasion when the performers are race - horses than when they are ships . Some tempers give way on seeing the hiatus which separates them from their field , and refuse to lessen it when they are called upon . Others rush it , and beat ...
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... occasion for turf alchemy , and ring transmutation .... The sports began with a Chicken Sweepstakes for three year olds - four runners , of which Cock Pheasant , backed against the field , was all to sticks , the best - a winner by two ...
... occasion for turf alchemy , and ring transmutation .... The sports began with a Chicken Sweepstakes for three year olds - four runners , of which Cock Pheasant , backed against the field , was all to sticks , the best - a winner by two ...
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... occasion at issue was graced with the adventitious aid of fresh , fair weather-- by no means a matter of course in these islands and days , even in mid - summer . The mise en scene was right gentle and aristocratic , and the carte was ...
... occasion at issue was graced with the adventitious aid of fresh , fair weather-- by no means a matter of course in these islands and days , even in mid - summer . The mise en scene was right gentle and aristocratic , and the carte was ...
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... occasion for a very high compliment from Lord Jersey , who presented Flatman with a hand- some whip , having his lordship's erest with the Middleton colours worked in on it . He had previously received a similar present from Lord ...
... occasion for a very high compliment from Lord Jersey , who presented Flatman with a hand- some whip , having his lordship's erest with the Middleton colours worked in on it . He had previously received a similar present from Lord ...
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... occasion he had destroyed a litter of four , the re- maining three being of the natural colour of that animal . During the time we were sitting and enjoying the conversation of this extraordinary old sportsman , I heard a noise at the ...
... occasion he had destroyed a litter of four , the re- maining three being of the natural colour of that animal . During the time we were sitting and enjoying the conversation of this extraordinary old sportsman , I heard a noise at the ...
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animal Ascot Bay Filly Bay Middleton beat beautiful betting birds called Cambridgeshire canter carried Catherine Hayes chase chasse chasseurs chesnut Cineas Cobnut Cotherstone course Derby distance dogs Doncaster England fancy favour favourite Filly Flying Dutchman forest gentleman give Glasgow Stakes Goodwood Goodwood Cup grouse half hand handicap Hawkes head honour horse hounds hour hunting Lady Leger legs look Lord mare match meeting miles morning never Newmarket noble Oaks odds owner pack party piqueur Plate pounds pretty race ran a bye Rataplan Reiver riding round sailing season shooting shot Sir Tatton Sykes Sittingbourne sovs sport sportsman stand Sweepstakes Teddington thing three-year-olds turf turn two-year-old Umbriel walked West Australian wild boar wind winner won the stakes yacht yards yearling young
Passagens conhecidas
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.