Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Select: Including Characteristic Sketches of Eminent Persons Who Have Appeared on the Turf; With an Interesting ... in the Sporting World; A Correct Description - Softcover
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These may be considered as forming the principal outline of the following work and, it is presumed, that no apology need be offered for the work itself. When books multiply, and opportunities for reading be come comparatively rare, it may be deemed an acceptable service to facilitate the means of acquiring knowledge. Those gentlemen, whose ardour leads them to the boisterous, but healthful, sports of the field, can hardly be considered as possessing'much time for extensive or laborious study: yet, that they are anxious to be well acquainted with the Very matieb of the pleasures they so cor dially enter into, is certainly not an unfair deduction: to enable them, therefore, to acquire that information, is the professed object of the following work; and to the Sporting World in general it will certainly prove a Source of amusement, instruction, and advantage.
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