The cracks of the day, ed. by WildrakeR. Ackermann, 1841 - 271 páginas |
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... head of this page , faithfully copied from an old print representing " A view of a HORSE MATCH at NEWMARKET , between GREY- WINDHAM and BAY BOLTON , painted from the Life , by that celebrated artist , Mr. John Wootton , " will bear ...
... head of this page , faithfully copied from an old print representing " A view of a HORSE MATCH at NEWMARKET , between GREY- WINDHAM and BAY BOLTON , painted from the Life , by that celebrated artist , Mr. John Wootton , " will bear ...
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... head of her . The struggle , however , eventually lay between Lord Exeter's Sultan filly ( Marmora ) , and Oxygen - the latter winning by a neck . John Day rode like a prince ; and ought to have been at once raised to the peerage ...
... head of her . The struggle , however , eventually lay between Lord Exeter's Sultan filly ( Marmora ) , and Oxygen - the latter winning by a neck . John Day rode like a prince ; and ought to have been at once raised to the peerage ...
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... head ; Mr. Wagstaff's b . f . Streamlet - J . Garbutt ; Mr. Houldsworth's b . f . Circassian - S . Darling ; Mr. Beardsworth's br . c . Colwick - Calloway ; Mr. R. Harrison's b . c . Braithwaite - Dodgson ; Mr. Vansittart's ch . c ...
... head ; Mr. Wagstaff's b . f . Streamlet - J . Garbutt ; Mr. Houldsworth's b . f . Circassian - S . Darling ; Mr. Beardsworth's br . c . Colwick - Calloway ; Mr. R. Harrison's b . c . Braithwaite - Dodgson ; Mr. Vansittart's ch . c ...
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... head . Mal Gardée ran a tolerable third ; Chancellor , Lady Elizabeth , and Liverpool , making a kind of draw for the honour of being fourth . " Now comes the settling when the banquet's o'er , " and a sorrowful settling it was for many ...
... head . Mal Gardée ran a tolerable third ; Chancellor , Lady Elizabeth , and Liverpool , making a kind of draw for the honour of being fourth . " Now comes the settling when the banquet's o'er , " and a sorrowful settling it was for many ...
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... head by head , so that the judge was " pretty considerable dumbfoundrified " to say who had won , and therefore proclaimed it , à dead heat . The betting now was six to four on Chorister , but he did not sustain the honours he had ...
... head by head , so that the judge was " pretty considerable dumbfoundrified " to say who had won , and therefore proclaimed it , à dead heat . The betting now was six to four on Chorister , but he did not sustain the honours he had ...
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25 sovs 50 sovs agst Ascot Bay Middleton beaten beating Bee's-wing Beiram Belshazzar Bentinck's betting Bloomsbury canter Chassé coloured colt Craven Stakes Crucifix ditto Don John DONCASTER ST Duke of Cleveland's Duke of Grafton's Duke of Richmond's Elis Emilius Epsom EPSOM DERBY Euclid extra favourite fillies Forth's four Galata Giles Glaucus Glencoe Gold Cup GOODWOOD CUP Greville's Grey Momus guineas Heathcote's Hornsea Houldsworth's Launcelot Leger Leger Stakes lengths Lord Chesterfield's Lord Exeter's Lord G Lord Jersey's Lord Lichfield's Lord Westminster's Mango mare Margrave mile Miss Letty Momus Muley Mündig Newmarket Craven Meeting Oaks odds Osbaldeston's owner Oxygen pace placed Plenipo Priam Price Pussy Queen of Trumps Queen's Plate RACING SEASON Riddlesworth Ridsdale's Rockingham running Scott second horse Shilelagh Sir G Sister six and aged Spaniel Spring Meeting Stakes of 50 started subs Sultan Sweepstakes three yr Touchstone Turf Velocipede winner winning
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Página 267 - OAKS, 1840. 269 sovs. each, h. ft. for three years old fillies, 8st. 4lb. ; the owner of the second horse received 100 sovs. out of the Stakes, and the winner paid 100 sovs. towards the expenses of additional police officers.
Página 202 - Chesterfield, added to a Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft. and only 5 if declared, &c ; the owner of the second horse received back his stake.
Página 94 - What happened in the race had best be narrated in Jem Robinson's words : — " I came the first half-mile, according to orders, as hard as I could lick, but when I looked round there was the great bullock cantering close by my side.
Página 232 - Stakes of 25 sovs. each, for three-year-olds ; colts 8st. 10 lb., fillies 8st. 51b. ; the owner of the second to receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards expenses, 25 sovs.
Página 45 - Chesterfield's was booked to win as a certainty ; and, if we might form an opinion from the joyful exclamations from all quarters of the course, his lordship's success would have been highly gratifying to the public — but there is " many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
Página 125 - Strathmore, in 1824, and is by Whisker, her dam Gibside Fairy by Hermes, out of Vicissitude by Pipator — Beatrice by Sir Peter.
Página 106 - To start at the Cup post on the New mile, and go once round, about two miles and a half.
Página 102 - Renewal of the Oaks Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft, for three yrs. old fillies, 8st.
Página 271 - Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster from the year 1815 to the present year inclusive (uncoloured vignette) (rule) London: Published by 5.
Página 253 - Ib., last mile and a half; the owner of the second horse to receive 100 sovs. out of the Stakes ; and the winner to pay 100 sovs.