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Title: American turf register and sporting magazine
Year: 1835 (1830s)
Authors: Skinner, J. S., ed
Subjects: Horse-racing Horses Sports
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : J.S. Skinner
Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library
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w three subscribers tothis stake. 13. A produce sweepstakes for colts and fillies dropt spring 1835, mile heats; subscrip-tion glOOO, forfeit $200—to close 1st Nov. 1835. TiMONiUM Races. Endeavors have been made, without success, to ascertain when the Timonium raceswill take place, the purses, &c. We have understood, indirectly, from one of the Proprietors that they will come oflfon the second Tuesday of May. Mr. Editor: Charleston, S. C. March 23, 1835. In the presence of two very intelligent gentlemen, I again measured the Washing-ton Course, on Saturday last, agreeably to your request. We measured it exactlywhere the horse that has the track generally runs, sometimes two and a half feet fromthe ditch, sometimes three and a half feet. We made it seventeen hundred and forty-Beven yards, one foot, and nine inches; of course, less than it ought to be by a fewyards, but nearer the mile than this, it will be impossible to bring it. Very respectfully, your obt servt, John B. Irving.
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To ConREsrosrEXTs of the Txtrf Register. It has been found necessary to fix upon certain times, on or before which all articUintended for publication in the Turf Register must be received at our office. Withoutrule of this kind it is impossible that we can get the numbers out with the regularitnecessary in such publications. We have therefore, fixed on the following, and requescorrespondents to bear them in mind, as the times specified are the latest that any of lbrespective articles can be received for publication in the numbers of the ensuino- monthIt would add much to our convenience if correspondents would furnish their articleeven sooner than the times specified, and in all cases the articles ^rs< received will havthe preference of insertion, other qualifications being equal. Those articles not receivetill after the time required, will be filed for publication and have the preference, in thnext number succeeding that for which they were intended. All memoirs of horses and othe

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