Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 452 من الصفحات |
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... probably prevented my being so ; let me therefore hope the public will consider what I now offer as Preface , Introduction , and Apology . I have read prefaces in which the Author assures his reader , if the book is found to beguile a ...
... probably prevented my being so ; let me therefore hope the public will consider what I now offer as Preface , Introduction , and Apology . I have read prefaces in which the Author assures his reader , if the book is found to beguile a ...
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... the odds . If at the same meeting a race is run for on which they have no bet , probably they do not take the trouble of looking at it : and , if they do , it is This , BETTING AS A BUSINESS PREJUDICIAL TO THE TURF . 7.
... the odds . If at the same meeting a race is run for on which they have no bet , probably they do not take the trouble of looking at it : and , if they do , it is This , BETTING AS A BUSINESS PREJUDICIAL TO THE TURF . 7.
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... probably fancied knowledge ) of the merits of the different horses engaged at any of the meetings in his neighbourhood , sports his 50l . on such occasions . Nor , again , to the Yeoman , with his good - humoured countenance , who ...
... probably fancied knowledge ) of the merits of the different horses engaged at any of the meetings in his neighbourhood , sports his 50l . on such occasions . Nor , again , to the Yeoman , with his good - humoured countenance , who ...
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... Probably his other expenses are about in the same ratio : still , * At Wolverhampton races , for the Holyoak Stakes , Hyllus carried 9 st . 6 lb. , twice round and a distance , thereby giving Retriever , the winner , 23 lb. , both 6 yrs ...
... Probably his other expenses are about in the same ratio : still , * At Wolverhampton races , for the Holyoak Stakes , Hyllus carried 9 st . 6 lb. , twice round and a distance , thereby giving Retriever , the winner , 23 lb. , both 6 yrs ...
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... Probably not : but I have in hundreds , and have there seen the direful havoc of fast - coaches . We must recollect that nothing but a high - couraged and high - bred horse is fit for a coach- horse ( in these days ) . Carrying this in ...
... Probably not : but I have in hundreds , and have there seen the direful havoc of fast - coaches . We must recollect that nothing but a high - couraged and high - bred horse is fit for a coach- horse ( in these days ) . Carrying this in ...
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