Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845 |
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الصفحة 4
... never sees them from one year's end to the other : whenever he does , it is 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 ...
... never sees them from one year's end to the other : whenever he does , it is 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 ...
الصفحة 7
... never be the case while betting , instead of racing , is left to be the primum mobile of the ma- chinery of turf affairs . The mere betting men may and will say that betting keeps alive the spirit of racing . No such thing : it may keep ...
... never be the case while betting , instead of racing , is left to be the primum mobile of the ma- chinery of turf affairs . The mere betting men may and will say that betting keeps alive the spirit of racing . No such thing : it may keep ...
الصفحة 10
... never bet on them or on any other person's , and he will never be ruined by race - horses . Let him , however , bear in mind , that I warn him he must lay by 500l . or 1000l . a - year of his income , according to the number he keeps ...
... never bet on them or on any other person's , and he will never be ruined by race - horses . Let him , however , bear in mind , that I warn him he must lay by 500l . or 1000l . a - year of his income , according to the number he keeps ...
الصفحة 11
... never ruin him more than keeping his hunters , if he can afford to keep them : if he cannot , they will , of course , eventually equally ruin him . It is not , therefore , that hunters or race - horses are in themselves to be considered ...
... never ruin him more than keeping his hunters , if he can afford to keep them : if he cannot , they will , of course , eventually equally ruin him . It is not , therefore , that hunters or race - horses are in themselves to be considered ...
الصفحة 13
... never could be tempted to back either a horse of my own or that of any other person for 5l . in my life . I love racing as a sport , and do declare that for a moderate stake , I should leave the course in higher spirits if my horse had ...
... never could be tempted to back either a horse of my own or that of any other person for 5l . in my life . I love racing as a sport , and do declare that for a moderate stake , I should leave the course in higher spirits if my horse had ...
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