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THE GREAT GAME 



AND HOW IT IS PLAYED 



A TREATISE ON THE TURF— FULL OF TALES 



By EDWARD SPENCER 



Extract from Author's Preface 



' ' This does not profess to be an exhaustive history of the British Turf from 

 the Phoenician period. I have merely strung together a few facts and a good 

 many fancies connected with a sport with which I have been connected, more 

 or less, since that bold, bad period, 'the early sixties.' ... In the present 

 work the author has treated his subject as lightly as he can, and whilst 

 apologising for sins of omission — including merely casual reference to the mares 

 of the century — he can claim to have dragged in by the heels several more or 

 less humorous anecdotes, most of them true." 



Demy Svo. Cloth. With Portraits, i Ss. 

 FROM 



GLADIATEUR TO PERSIMMON 



TURF HISTORY FOR THIRTY YEARS 

 By SYDENHAM DIXON 



(" VIGILANT " OF THE " SPORTSMAN ") 



The aim of this book is to bring Turf history somewhat "up to date." 

 Thanks to the works of " The Druid" (whose son Mr. Sydenham Dixon is), 

 those of the present generation who take an interest in our great national sport 

 have every opportunity of becoming fully acquainted with the deeds of the 

 great horses that nourished prior to "the sixties." Since that date, however, 

 though it cannot truthfully be written that "the rest is silence," nothing like 

 a compact history of the Turf has been attempted, and to many of our younger 

 sportsmen such giants as Achievement, Prince Charlie, Macgregor, Springfield, 

 St. Simon, cum multis aliis, are names, and little more than names. It has 

 been the author's aim to continue the tale which "The Druid" told so 

 eloquently, and to relate the stories of the greatest performers that have 

 flourished "from Gladiateur to Persimmon." Chapters are devoted to the 

 career of Mr. James Merry, with his constant changes of jockeys and trainers, 

 but never-ceasing sequence of good horses ; to the palmy days of Danebury, 

 when "the hoops" carried all before them ; to the doings of that marvellous 

 combination of Lord Falmouth, Matthew Dawson, and Fred Archer ; whilst, 

 though little attempt has been made to preserve chronological order, it is 

 hoped that few really good horses have been passed over. Anecdotes of the 

 stereotyped order have been carefully avoided, and, thanks to the kind and 

 cordial assistance of every owner and trainer who has been approached on the 

 subject, a great many interesting facts are embodied, which have never pre- 

 viously appeared in print. 



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