Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 452 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 48
... race . They would improve much under the discipline : but as they would not ... Steeple - racing is a description of sport for which we are chiefly indebted ... steeple - racing opens a field to the veriest bungler in the art of ...
... race . They would improve much under the discipline : but as they would not ... Steeple - racing is a description of sport for which we are chiefly indebted ... steeple - racing opens a field to the veriest bungler in the art of ...
الصفحة 49
... Steeple - racing , as one to a hundred . Many people imagine that jockeys are constantly paid to lose races ; but this is by no means the case : that it sometimes occurs is doubtless the fact ; but when it does , it is in some leather ...
... Steeple - racing , as one to a hundred . Many people imagine that jockeys are constantly paid to lose races ; but this is by no means the case : that it sometimes occurs is doubtless the fact ; but when it does , it is in some leather ...
الصفحة 50
... Steeple - race ? Are not men of large fortune , who give their hundred , hundred - and - fifties , and two hundred for hunters suf- ficient to encourage the breed of superior horses ? I will tell these persons what Steeple - racing does ...
... Steeple - race ? Are not men of large fortune , who give their hundred , hundred - and - fifties , and two hundred for hunters suf- ficient to encourage the breed of superior horses ? I will tell these persons what Steeple - racing does ...
الصفحة 51
... Steeple - racing was merely a race of two or three miles over a fair hunting line of country , it would perhaps be as good an amusement as any other race , with no more suffering to the horses engaged in it , and would in fact be a ...
... Steeple - racing was merely a race of two or three miles over a fair hunting line of country , it would perhaps be as good an amusement as any other race , with no more suffering to the horses engaged in it , and would in fact be a ...
الصفحة 71
... horse , a pair , or four , who could not ride a steeple - race . This arises from the want of practising the latter ; and the probable reason why so few men , comparatively , do practise it is that they would be frightened to death to ...
... horse , a pair , or four , who could not ride a steeple - race . This arises from the want of practising the latter ; and the probable reason why so few men , comparatively , do practise it is that they would be frightened to death to ...
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الصفحة 394 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.