Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 452 من الصفحات |
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... 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 very mediocre affair . To win a King's Plate formerly stamped 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 very mediocre affair . To win a King's Plate formerly stamped a ...
الصفحة 6
... hundred is betted by those who keep race - horses , forty hundreds are betted by those who do not . Hundreds of those who bet largely know little or nothing about a race - horse , neither know a racing - looking horse - whether he is a ...
... hundred is betted by those who keep race - horses , forty hundreds are betted by those who do not . Hundreds of those who bet largely know little or nothing about a race - horse , neither know a racing - looking horse - whether he is a ...
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... hundred , independently of Lords by courtesy , we find now scarcely more than twenty patronising the Turf by keeping race - horses - a pretty sure criterion of its respectability under the present system ! Formerly , when racing was ...
... hundred , independently of Lords by courtesy , we find now scarcely more than twenty patronising the Turf by keeping race - horses - a pretty sure criterion of its respectability under the present system ! Formerly , when racing was ...
الصفحة 9
... hundred . Let me , however , endeavour to rescue racing and race - horses from the sweeping charge that is brought against them of being the ruin of thousands . The fact really is , that simply racing and the keeping race - horses will ...
... hundred . Let me , however , endeavour to rescue racing and race - horses from the sweeping charge that is brought against them of being the ruin of thousands . The fact really is , that simply racing and the keeping race - horses will ...
الصفحة 12
... hundreds of times into gaming - houses , both at home and abroad , and never once took a dice - box in my hand where hazard was played . I am and always was enthusiastically fond of racing , and was so as a boy . I considered then , and ...
... hundreds of times into gaming - houses , both at home and abroad , and never once took a dice - box in my hand where hazard was played . I am and always was enthusiastically fond of racing , and was so as a boy . I considered then , and ...
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