b'67563The Australasian Turf Register and Sporting Calendar for 1866-7 in a defective half-leather binding;also The Australasian Turf Register for 1869 and 1870, both rebound in blue hardcovers with gilt titles. (3 vols.) $100200.564 ex 5655641866 Victoria Racing Club SPRING MEETING Honorary Ticket No.21 issued to P. Brady Esq., of the Railway Department. A framed and glazed piece of early Australian horse racing history$200300565HORSE RACING IN AUSTRALIA: A collection of mainly full-page etchings and engravings mainly fromThe Illustrated Sydney News or The Australasian Sketcher, circa 1860s - 1890s. (11 different).$200250566The VICTORIAN STUD-BOOK, Containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, etc From the earliest accounts Vol. III (1871) and Vol. IV (1875). [Stillwell and Knight, Collins Street East., Melbourne]; hardcovers; faults, but very rare. (2 vols.)Around 1859, William Levey edited Volume 1 of the Victorian Stud Book, published by Bells Sporting Life, which ran for four volumes, the last in 1875 compiled by William Yuille junior, sporting editor of the Melbourne Weekly Times, also apologising for the delay in publication. William Cross Yuille was born in Glasgow in 1819 and emigrated to Hobart in 1836 with his cousin Archibald Buchanan Yuille. They bought 2,000 merino sheep and shipped them to Geelong in 1837 but trouble with the aborigines around the Barwon River forced them to move on to Ballarat in 1838. Yuille set up camp on the corner of what is now Pleasant Street and Wendouree Parade; which is marked by an obelisk outside the State School. Known as Black Swamp or Yuilles Swamp then, it is now Lake Wendouree. The name Wendouree comes from the aboriginal word wendaaree which means go away. A story is told that when Yuille asked an aboriginal woman the name of the swamp, that was her reply. He established his sheep station Ballaarat around present day Ballarat and Sebastopol. $200300567W. Summers after H. Alken, Tattenham Corner, published by J. McQueen, London and Paris, 1871,etching and aquatint with hand-colouring, on wove paper, with margins. Framed & glazed, overall 76 x 106cm$200250568568The Australasian Turf Register, 1872 - 74 and 1877 - 78, five volumes rebound in blue cloth with gilt titles; also the 1879 and 1880 editions with cloth covers; the 1880 with original upper label. (7 volumes). Mixed condition. $300500'