Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 452 من الصفحات |
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... thing to go the " whole hog ; " consequently prefer making a thousand sure , by selling my colt , to standing the chance of winning the Stakes , worth we will say three , but attended with all the risk inseparable from such events . It ...
... thing to go the " whole hog ; " consequently prefer making a thousand sure , by selling my colt , to standing the chance of winning the Stakes , worth we will say three , but attended with all the risk inseparable from such events . It ...
الصفحة 4
... thing that really does one good to see . Depend on it , such a man is no Leg . The latter wins or loses his money with the most inflexible coolness ; he takes it as a matter of business . If he keeps horses , so far from taking any ...
... thing that really does one good to see . Depend on it , such a man is no Leg . The latter wins or loses his money with the most inflexible coolness ; he takes it as a matter of business . If he keeps horses , so far from taking any ...
الصفحة 8
... thing at once , and begin it de novo . We have , however , still a few ( and God knows a very few ) men on the Turf whose character and position in life place them beyond suspicion ; but among the Nobility of the United Kingdom - which ...
... thing at once , and begin it de novo . We have , however , still a few ( and God knows a very few ) men on the Turf whose character and position in life place them beyond suspicion ; but among the Nobility of the United Kingdom - which ...
الصفحة 9
... thing about the matter , that no man under ordinary circumstances can make money by keeping race - horses , if he merely runs to win . If a man of large fortune keeps them , he ought to calculate that they will cost him so much a year ...
... thing about the matter , that no man under ordinary circumstances can make money by keeping race - horses , if he merely runs to win . If a man of large fortune keeps them , he ought to calculate that they will cost him so much a year ...
الصفحة 11
... thing like a heavy bet , from that moment ( and particularly should he be so unfortunate as to win ) I will back him at 50 to 1 to be ruined in a very short time : indeed a few meetings will sew him up . He has then only one thing left ...
... thing like a heavy bet , from that moment ( and particularly should he be so unfortunate as to win ) I will back him at 50 to 1 to be ruined in a very short time : indeed a few meetings will sew him up . He has then only one thing left ...
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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.