The Sporting Magazine, Volume 46Rogerson & Tuxford, 1815 From July 1846 also issued, with different title pages, as the New sporting magazine, the Sportsman, and the Sporting review. |
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... fight so determined and so desperate as that which took place on Tuesday , the 18th instant , on Hounslow Heath , be- twixt Harry Harmer , of first - rate science , and Shelton , the navi- gator . The difference of opinion , and the ...
... fight so determined and so desperate as that which took place on Tuesday , the 18th instant , on Hounslow Heath , be- twixt Harry Harmer , of first - rate science , and Shelton , the navi- gator . The difference of opinion , and the ...
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... fighting . He exchanged two hits for one in a forcible manner . Shelton went down from distress . 4th . Fighting had commenced in earnest , and both , with true courage , seemed to disregard in- jury to the person . - Shelton plant- ed ...
... fighting . He exchanged two hits for one in a forcible manner . Shelton went down from distress . 4th . Fighting had commenced in earnest , and both , with true courage , seemed to disregard in- jury to the person . - Shelton plant- ed ...
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... fight- ing , superior science and most determined bottom could alone have given him a chance , and these requisites he displayed in a most pre - eminent degree . Shelton has acquired much science , and fought bravely . Harmer received a ...
... fight- ing , superior science and most determined bottom could alone have given him a chance , and these requisites he displayed in a most pre - eminent degree . Shelton has acquired much science , and fought bravely . Harmer received a ...
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... fighting and supporting their battles in any stage , mark them for steady fight- ers , good heelers , ready mouths , and deep game . Such proofs would warrant your endeavours to procure one of these warriors the least injured in his ...
... fighting and supporting their battles in any stage , mark them for steady fight- ers , good heelers , ready mouths , and deep game . Such proofs would warrant your endeavours to procure one of these warriors the least injured in his ...
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... fighting , you have good and bad cocks supposed to be equally bred alike , and you are embarrassed to know how to remedy the evil . This circumstance , and another equally , if not more dangerous , ( the unwarrantable practice of ...
... fighting , you have good and bad cocks supposed to be equally bred alike , and you are embarrassed to know how to remedy the evil . This circumstance , and another equally , if not more dangerous , ( the unwarrantable practice of ...
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aged agst animal beating Beningbrough betting black cap blue Brandling's Camillus Castrel cocks colts Craven Stakes dam by Sir Davis's g. g. Viper defendant Dick Andrews Don Cossack Duke of Grafton's Duke of Leeds's Eales favourite Fifty Pounds fillies Five Foley's following also started gentlemen Gohanna Gold Cup Goodisson Granicus Grosvenor's guineas Hambletonian Harmer Hippomenes Lady Leger Stakes Lord Foley's Lord G. H. Cavendish's Lord Rous's mare match MEETING ment miles Monday Newmarket Orville Payne's Pericles plaintiff Popinjay race racter received forfeit Remembrancer Rubens Scroggins Selim Shelton shoe Sir David Sir Peter sleeves Sorcerer sport Stakes of 10gs Stamford Stonehewer's subscribers Sweepstakes Sweepstakes of 10gs Sykes's three-years-old colts THURSDAY tion Tuesday value 100gs waistcoat waistcoat with black walked Walton Waxy WEDNESDAY winner Wynne's XLVI.-No young yrs old
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