WORKS ON SPORTING, 



PUBLISHED BY MR. COLBURN, 

 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET, 



To be had, by order, of all Booksellers. 



HISTORY OF THE BRITISH TURF, 



FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY. 

 BY JAMES CHRISTIE WHYTE, ESQ. 



In two Large Volumes, 8vo, with Illustrations. Price 28s. bound. 



COMPRISING — 



1 . Memoirs and Anecdotes of remark- 



able Sporting Characters 



2. The Performances and Pedigrees of 



celebrated Racehorses 



3. Descriptions of the Racecourses in 



Great Britain 



4 . The Plates and Stakes annually run 

 for over them 



5. Accounts of the most approved 

 Method of Breeding, Training, 

 and managing Racehorses 



6. Notices of celebrated Jockeys 



7. Description of the principal Races and Matches. 

 Also, every Particular, technical and otherwise, to which the Lover of Racing may 

 desire to refer, either as a matter of business or amusement. 

 " This work must become a standard authority on the subject of horses and horse- 

 racing, and no one at all interested in such subjects will be without it, wliilst the 

 general reader wUl be dehghted with it for the pleasant spirit in which it is written, 

 and the singular traits of extraordinary character with which it is so profusely 

 studded . ' ' — Argus. 



II. 



THE SPORTSMAN IN IRELAND, 



AND THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. 



BY R. ALLEN, ESQ., A.M., F.S.A., &c. 

 In 2 vols, post 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, price I8s. bound. 

 " The details the author gives of his various ' experiences' in the beautiful lands 

 which he passed over, cannot faU to send hosts of sportsmen thither who never 

 before contemplated such a visit, and many more who would scarcely have ven- 

 tured such an undertaking without the guide here placed at their disposal. The 

 work is embellished with very many spirited and mteresting sketches of remark- 

 able locahties, and is altogether one of the most readable and amusing books of its 

 kind that we have had for many a day."— iVew Monthly. 



III. 



SCENES & SPORTS IN FOREIGN LANDS. 



BY MAJOR E. NAPIER, 46th Regt. 

 2 vols, small 8vo, with Nineteen Illustrations, 21s. bound, 

 " The wide ' preserves' of the far East are here thrown open for the reader, and 

 he is shewn the various methods pursued to bring down the game, while enter- 

 tained with the amusing adventures of the daring hunter." — Age. 



IV. 



SPORTING EXCURSIONS IN THE ROCKY 

 MOUNTAINS. 



BY J. K. TOWNSHEND, ESQ. 



2 vols, post 8vo, with Illustrations, 18s. bound. 

 •' There is much variety and information of a practical kind in this book, and it 

 will be especially acceptable to naturalists on account of the descriptions of the 

 animals with which the regions traversed by the writer abound."— J^^as. 



