Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845 |
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... mere child has mixed in and enjoyed every sporting pursuit alluded to in the work , is engaged in some of them now , and trusts ere long to enjoy on a limited scale all again . If so , and the ideas contained in the work should be ...
... mere child has mixed in and enjoyed every sporting pursuit alluded to in the work , is engaged in some of them now , and trusts ere long to enjoy on a limited scale all again . If so , and the ideas contained in the work should be ...
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... merely a visit of business . If his horse wins , he pockets the money , but neither cares nor thinks more about him than he does about the spit that hangs in his kitchen , and has roasted the mutton for his table . Unfortunately for ...
... merely a visit of business . If his horse wins , he pockets the money , but neither cares nor thinks more about him than he does about the spit that hangs in his kitchen , and has roasted the mutton for his table . Unfortunately for ...
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... merely as a business make up a book , look to the different horses ' public running , and lay or take the odds accordingly . This , and this only , is their business . If they attend a race , it is merely to see whether at the last ...
... merely as a business make up a book , look to the different horses ' public running , and lay or take the odds accordingly . This , and this only , is their business . If they attend a race , it is merely to see whether at the last ...
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... merely to see how it is run , won and lost , so as to enable them to judge how to lay or take the odds on any of the ... mere betting men may and will say that betting keeps alive the spirit of racing . No such thing : it may keep up an ...
... merely to see how it is run , won and lost , so as to enable them to judge how to lay or take the odds on any of the ... mere betting men may and will say that betting keeps alive the spirit of racing . No such thing : it may keep up an ...
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... merely runs to win . If a man of large fortune keeps them , he ought to calculate that they will cost him so much a - year according to their number , and put them down to his expenses as he does his other horses , or carriages , or his ...
... merely runs to win . If a man of large fortune keeps them , he ought to calculate that they will cost him so much a - year according to their number , and put them down to his expenses as he does his other horses , or carriages , or his ...
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