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Reminiscences of the Turf - With Anecdotes and Recollections of Its Principals Celebrities (Classic Reprint)

English · Hardback

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Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Turf: With Anecdotes and Recollections of Its Principals Celebrities

Commissioners and their instructors - How Gully and Hill made fortunes - Laying against 'dead uns - Gulling the public Universal temptation - A view of turf parasites in 1832 Richardson, Bland, and others.

Harry Hill origin A thimble and a pea - Lord George's contempt - Exposed by Mr. Rayner - Disadvantages of lying - Hill's dress and diversions; loses - Frank Butler 'carpeted - Caught on the Stock Exchange An economic principle - Intestacy and disappearance of his money.

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Authors William Day
Publisher Forgotten Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2017
 
No. of pages 486
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 30 mm
Weight 801 g
Subject Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history

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