Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845 |
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... given sum . Any one might naturally suppose , if a man chose to give a thousand pounds for a race - horse , that he would be allowed the same freedom of will in what he might please to do with him . I should have thought the same thing ...
... given sum . Any one might naturally suppose , if a man chose to give a thousand pounds for a race - horse , that he would be allowed the same freedom of will in what he might please to do with him . I should have thought the same thing ...
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... horses were turned loose on a straight - roped course , or whether ridden over the Beacon , racing will always tend to improve the breed of horses in whatever country it is estab- QUEEN'S PLATES . 5 lished . King's Plates were given.
... horses were turned loose on a straight - roped course , or whether ridden over the Beacon , racing will always tend to improve the breed of horses in whatever country it is estab- QUEEN'S PLATES . 5 lished . King's Plates were given.
الصفحة 5
... given for this patriotic purpose ; and doubtless at the time when a hundred guineas was worth the best horse's starting for , it had a very good effect ; but our other Stakes have now become so heavy that a Queen's Plate is considered a ...
... given for this patriotic purpose ; and doubtless at the time when a hundred guineas was worth the best horse's starting for , it had a very good effect ; but our other Stakes have now become so heavy that a Queen's Plate is considered a ...
الصفحة 8
... Nobility now keep race - horses : what a host of those , and men of family and fortune , could I name who have given it up ! What does this prove ? Not that such men are not as well disposed to RACING AS A SPORT . 9 patronise the Turf as.
... Nobility now keep race - horses : what a host of those , and men of family and fortune , could I name who have given it up ! What does this prove ? Not that such men are not as well disposed to RACING AS A SPORT . 9 patronise the Turf as.
الصفحة 20
... given up ; not so the gambling . Of these two fine young men , one terminated his existence after losing to an enormous amount in the Palais Royal ; the other lost the whole of his fortune , went abroad , and died of fever . These and ...
... given up ; not so the gambling . Of these two fine young men , one terminated his existence after losing to an enormous amount in the Palais Royal ; the other lost the whole of his fortune , went abroad , and died of fever . These and ...
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