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Newspaper
Sydney Referee
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 04, 1905
Page
1
A detailed era of turf events highlights crowd scenes and results from Warwick Farm and the Carrington meetings. Horserace summaries feature Overdale Tattersall’s Cup contenders, Handsome, Marie Corelli, and Lady Wallace with details of plums, margins, and weights amid fluctuating betting and weather conditions.
A fragmentary Victorian era tour through English racing, naming horses, owners, and outcomes. It recalls Henry I, John of Gaunt, and Leandro de Rothschild linked toDerby prospects, Two Thousand Guineas plans, and Arcot bouts with Derby debates, plus Two-year-old prospects and opinions on Vedas, Amant, and Moorby events.
King Carfos led a grand royal hunting party at Whata worth amid heavy snowdrifts. A London paper notes the field bagged over a thousand pheasants partridges boar woodcock. The party, drawn by four bays, traveled in high spirits with the Duke of Devonshire and the Earl of Mar and Kelilo among them.
A long fragment details aristocratic figures like Lord Gosford and Lord Crewe amid a racing scene. It references horses, betting, and royal interest around a coronation period, with mentions of Zinfandel and a two-year-old colt, plus speculation on future showings at Ascot and Sandown.
A long fragment discusses Chartley Park cattle said to date from the reign of Henry III, noting their white color and semi feral status. It compares them to white cattle in Chillingham and other parks, and weighs theories on their origin as descendants or blends involving the wild aurochs, once common in Britain.
An extended, colorful chronicle recounts a fire disaster at a Chicago theatre and the ensuing social hum with betting, gossip, and near-misses. It blends melodrama and street-life detail, noting insurance gaps, crowd panic, and a mock-epic tale amid New Year reflections.
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