Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845 |
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... Jockey something like these instructions : " Now , George , I am particularly anxious to win the Stakes on Wednesday if you find you can win to - day at your ease , do so ; if , on the contrary , you find you will have to take a great ...
... Jockey something like these instructions : " Now , George , I am particularly anxious to win the Stakes on Wednesday if you find you can win to - day at your ease , do so ; if , on the contrary , you find you will have to take a great ...
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... jockey , or stable - boy , he of course brings himself to their level , or below it . If he also chooses , for the sake of making up his book , to associate ( we will allow only pro tempore ) , con- sult , and bet with blacklegs and ...
... jockey , or stable - boy , he of course brings himself to their level , or below it . If he also chooses , for the sake of making up his book , to associate ( we will allow only pro tempore ) , con- sult , and bet with blacklegs and ...
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... Jockey , the Steeple - chase Rider , the Bull - baiter , and Dog - fighter - even the Gentleman , if he is merely a " bookless sauntering youth , proud of the scut that dignifies his cap " -will all deny that there is a particle of ...
... Jockey , the Steeple - chase Rider , the Bull - baiter , and Dog - fighter - even the Gentleman , if he is merely a " bookless sauntering youth , proud of the scut that dignifies his cap " -will all deny that there is a particle of ...
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... jockeys know this , and seldom use their whip but as a last resource : young ones , and particularly gentleman jocks ... jockey of him . As to the gentlemen jocks , if there were ten of them , I should like to flog at least nine before ...
... jockeys know this , and seldom use their whip but as a last resource : young ones , and particularly gentleman jocks ... jockey of him . As to the gentlemen jocks , if there were ten of them , I should like to flog at least nine before ...
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... jockeys are constantly paid to lose races ; but this is by no means the case : that it sometimes occurs is doubtless the fact ; but when it does , it is in some leather - plating concern , and among fourth or fifth rate riders , who ...
... jockeys are constantly paid to lose races ; but this is by no means the case : that it sometimes occurs is doubtless the fact ; but when it does , it is in some leather - plating concern , and among fourth or fifth rate riders , who ...
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Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, Volume 1 Harry Hieover Visualização integral - 1846 |
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