A HISTORY OF 



THE 



ENGLISH TURF 



BY 



THEODORE ANDREA COOK, M.A., F.S.A. 



" If I were to begin life again I would go on the Turf to get friends. They seem 

 to me the only people who really hold close together. I don't know why ; it 

 may be that each knows something that might hang the other, but the effect is 

 delightful and most peculiar. " Harriet, Lady Ashburton, to Ij>rd Hoiighton. 



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VOL. III. 



LONDON 

 VIRTUE AND COMPANY, CITY ROAD, E.G. 



