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2,000, and the gate-money came to near 1,000. 

 There is also a " convincing " ground on Emerald Hill, 

 near Melbourne, where private matches and steeple- 

 chases come off, and where many an owner is convinced, 

 to his cost, that his nag is not the flyer he took him to 

 bo. A very fair new Government race-course has been 

 lately laid out, at Dandenong, about twenty miles from 

 Melbourne, where the managers get up two days' sport. 

 These races are principally supported by settlers in the 

 neighbourhood, and will see a better day. Independent 

 of the local interest they possess, they will afford a kind 

 of " hay and straw " meeting to the Melbourne trainers, 

 and occasionally put an odd 50 into the pockets of 

 those men whose stud is limited, and these hardly able 

 to run in the best company. Within the last two years 

 a new era has opened upon the Victorian turf, by the 

 establishment of Mr. Anthony Green's training-stables, 

 on Emerald Hill. He certainly led off the ball well, for in 

 the year 1857, his first year of public training, his stable 

 won sixty-one races ; A'alue of the stakes, 8,693. JSTo bad 

 work this for a young colony. If a knowledge of his 

 profession and experience are worth anything, he ought 

 to get on. One of the oldest and best friends I ever 

 had in the colony, he has my sincere wishes for his 

 success. I trust he may long keep up the position he 

 now holds, as the " John Scott " of Victoria ; and may 

 " Green's lot " prove a terror to the Victorian turf for 

 many a year to come ! 



A small but remarkably neat pack of hounds is kept 



