CHAPTER I. 



HISTORY OF HORSE-RACING. 





"^'X,-' Coming from the Birdcage, 

 Newmarket. 



BOOK on the subject of horse- 

 ^ racing can well exclude some 

 more or less brief comments on 

 the history of the sport ; and here it 

 is obvious that the writer has no al- 

 ternative but to go over ground which 

 has already been traversed. No more 

 difficult, more well-nigh impossible task 

 could be assigned, even to those who have the greatest modern 

 experience of horse-racing and its congener horse-breedinc^ 



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