10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PICNIC RACES»
Discover the use of
picnic races in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
picnic races and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
A comedy that brings to vivid life the ups and downs of a community in which everyone knows - and usually disapproves of - what everyone else is doing.
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Bold Palates: Australia's Gastronomic Heritage
It gave rise to a quintessentially Australian tradition, the Picnic Races. The idea
seems to have originated around 1830 at a property named Tirrana, near
Goulburn, and quickly spread. After the 1836 Bathurst Races, the local committee
...
... November. There wasn't much time for the Picnic Races that year. I used to go
up to Coonabarabran each morning to ride four horses for Jack, including Hit and
a new one on the scene called Here's 226 10: THE ROMA PICNIC RACES, 1966.
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The Politics of Pictures: The Creation of the Public in the ...
No picnic in English English perhaps, but in Australian English the word picnic
has a special association with rural horse races, which are called picnic meetings
or picnic races. A 1923 citation in the (Oxford) Australian National Dictionary ...
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Sentenced to Cross the Raging Sea: The Story of Sam Johnson, ...
There were regular picnic races in Stratford. The 'Knob' picnic was instituted in
1863 and was held every New Year's Day as a counter to the Stratford and
Nuntin Races, held the same day. Arthur South in his reminiscences
remembered ...
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A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia's Sporting Life
From the Pictorial Collection PICNIC RACES PICNIC RACE DAYS were great
social events, with special distinctions between the public (not welcome as
members, but so necessary to finances) and the members (nominated and voted
in).
Picnic Races Each year between branding seasons, there were two special
events, to which everyone; station people and townsfolk looked forward. Our
annual picnic race meeting was held at Sedan Dip, so named as in earlier years,
...
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The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing
At some picnic races a set of coin-operated scales, stationed the rest of the year
outside the pharmacy in the main street of town, is pressed into service by the
clerk of scales. The Tirranna races near Goulburn were the first picnic meeting.
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The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection
Mrs. Dominic D. Daly — nee Harriet Douglas — daughter of an early Government
Resident in the Territory, Captain Bloomfield Douglas, blissfully recalls the
delights of her Top End youth, with its picnic races by the sea, in her book,
Digging, ...
David John Headon, Headon, David (ed.), 2001
Goulburn wasn't quite as bad as Armidale which was reported back in 1922 to
have put a blue cord across the ballroom floor at the Picnic Races ball to keep
the sheep (pure merinos) from the 'lower orders', who merely paid for their tickets.
Dymphna Cusack, Debra Adelaide, 1991
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PICNIC RACES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
picnic races is used in the context of the following news items.
Don't send back-office work to Asia – send it to the bush
People will take you much more seriously if you invest in the local community. We sponsor the annual Duck Creek Picnic Races in Nyngan ... «Real Estate Business, Jul 15»
Something Special, Something Rare
From the first blush that burns unexplained in Louise's cheeks as she speaks to Lloyd at the Picnic Races in a little country town (Bushfire by ... «ArtsHub, Jul 15»
Lee Scott: “I'm alive, I'm not pushing up daisies and I very nearly was …
Her passion for fashion saw her repeatedly named in the winners' circle of far-north Queensland's Oak Park Picnic Races Fashions of the Field. «Courier Mail, Jun 15»
Golf not needed at Olympic Games
Parkes Coradgery and Diggers Picnic Races. Happening next weekend at Parkes Racecourse. Gates open at 11.30 and entry to the five-race ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
GALLERY: Fashion, friends and fillies at Picnic Races
FANCY FILLIES: Nominees for Best Hat/Fascinator Division in Fashions on the Field take to the stage at the Warwick Picnic Races. Sophie ... «Warwick Daily News, May 15»
Party time at the picnic races
FASHIONABLE FUN: The Warwick Picnic Races will feature a Fashions on the Field competition tomorrow, sponsored by Rose City ... «Warwick Daily News, May 15»
Outback grass-fed 'honest horse racing' to go on despite crippling …
The drought has hit hard at Darr River Downs, but Cam Tindall says he will endure to get his horses to the Oakley Amateur Picnic Races this ... «ABC Online, May 15»
No races but the action continues at the Rec Club
Next weekend will be the golf and bowls weekend in place of the picnic races, so remember it all happens at the Rec Club, and that's the run up ... «Boorowa News, Apr 15»
Band organised for Picnic Races
The band, “One non Blond” has been booked to entertain patrons at this year's Parkes Coradgery and Diggers Picnic Races on Saturday (June ... «Parkes Champion-Post, Apr 15»
Bourke race fans kick up their heels
A highlight of the weekend was the return of picnic races, hosted by the ... on the Sunday was called the Harry Hart Memorial Picnic Races. «The Land Newspaper, Apr 15»
