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The universal sportsman: or, nobleman, gentleman, and farmer's dictionary of recreation and amusement. Including a most improved system of modern farriery, and anatomical dissections of a horse; With concise Rules for chusing good Horses, and the Secrets of training them with Wind and Vigour for the Course, Field, Road, and Cavalry. Particular instructions for Riding, Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Hawking, Shooting, Setting, And Fishing; With abstracts from the game laws of great britain and ireland. With the most approved methods of breeding, curing, and managing all sorts of cattle; Particularly Oxen, Cows, Deer, Sheep, And Hogs. The Method Of Preventing The Scab Among Sheep, With A Radical Cure IF Infected. The Method Of Procuring Early Lambs. With an improved mode of docking, nicking, cropping, and breaking colts. Directions for Breeding, Training, and Managing Dogs, Hawks, Cocks, Doves, Pigeons, Singing-Birds, &c. With a new and interesting Description Of All The Traps, Nets, Engines, Baits, And Magical Contrivances, for taking birds, and all sorts of game, alive; and for destroying vermin of every kind that annoy poultry, or infest the farmer's yard. The whole comprized under one alphabetical arrangement, and each article explained under its proper name. Compiled from the latest discoveries, and improved by many years real practice and observation. By William Augustus Osbaldiston, Esq. Embellished with forty-two elegant copper-plates, adapted to each subject.
Osbaldiston, William Augustus.Date: [1795?]- Books
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The gentleman's complete jockey: with the perfect horseman, and experienced farrier. Containing, I. The nature of horses; their Breeding, Feeding and Management in all Paces, to sit them for War, Racing, Travel, Hunting, or other Recreations and Advantages. II. The true Method, with proper Rules and Directions to Order, Diet and Physic the Running Horse, to bring him to any Match or Race, with success. III. The Methods to buy Horses, and prevent being cheated; noting the particular Marks of the good and bad horses, in all their circumstances. IV. How to make Blazes, Stars, and Snips: To fatten a horse with little charge, and to make him lively and lovely. V. The whole Art of a Farrier in curing all Diseases, Griefs and Sorances incident to Horses; with their Symptoms and Causes. VI. The methods of shooing, Blooding, Rowling, Purging, and prevention of Diseases, &c. from long Experience and approved Practice. To which is added, The art of vermine-killing. By A. S. Gent.
A. S.Date: Printed in the Year, M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The complete sportsman; or, Country gentleman's recreation. Containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them. Of rearing and backing colts. Of managing race-horses, hunters &c. Of horse racing. Of bowling. Of hare-hunting. Of fox-hunting. Of buck-hunting. Of otter-hunting. Of coursing. Of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun, or chace, &c. Of angling in all its various branches Of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. Of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game. Of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. Together with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page. By Mr. T. Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.Date: [1760?]- Books
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The compleat sportsman; or country gentleman's recreation. Containing the very best instructions under the following heads. Viz. of breeding and the management of game-cocks. Of Cock-Fighting. Of Calts, and backing Colts. Of the Breeding and Management of Race-Horses, Hunters, &c. Of Horse-Racing. Of Bowling. Of Coursing. Of Hare-Hunting. Of Fox-Hunting. Of Buck-Hunting. Of Breeding and Ordering all Manager of Dogs, Pigeons, Rabbets, &c. Of Angling. Of Otters and Otter-Hunting. Of Pheasants, Partridges, Wood-Cocks, and all Manner of Game. Of Breeding and Managing Canary-Birds, &c. &c. And several other Articles too numerous be mentioned in a Title Page. Compiled by Mr. T. Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.Date: M.DCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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The complete sportsman; or, Country gentleman's recreation: Containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them. Of rearing and backing colts. Of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. Of horse-racing. Of bowling. Of hare-hunting. Of fox-hunting. Of buck-hunting. Of otter-hunting. Of coursing. Of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. Of angling in all its various branches. Of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. Of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game. Of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. Together, with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page. By Thomas Fairfax, Esq.
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.Date: [1760?]- Books
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The compleat sportsman; or country gentleman's recreation. Containing the very best instructions under the following heads. Viz. of breeding and the management of game cocks. Of Cock fighting. Of Colts and backing Colts. Of the Breeding and Management of Race-Horses, Hunters, &c. Of Horse-Racing. Of Bowling. Of Coursing. Of Hare-Hunting. Of Fox-Hunting. Of Buck-Hunting. Of Breeding and Ordering all Manners of Dogs, Pigeons, Rabbets, &c. Of Angling. Of Otters and Otter-Hunting. Of Pheasants, Partridges, Woodcocks, and all Manner of Game. Of Breeding and Managing Canary-Birds, &c. &c. And several other Articles too numerous to be mentioned in a Title Page. Compiled by Mr. T. Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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The complete sportsman; or country gentleman's recreation. Containing the very best instructions under the following heads. Viz. of breeding and the management of game-cocks. Of Cock-Fighting. Of Colts and backing Colts. Of the Breeding and Management of Race-Horses, Hunters, &c. Of Horse-Racing. Of Bowling. Of Coursing. Of Hare-Hunting. Of Fox-Hunting. Of Buck-Hunting. Of Breeding and Ordering all Manner of Dogs, Pigeons, Rabbets, &c. Of Angling. Of Otters and Otter-Hunting. Of Pheasants, Partridges, Woodcocks, and all Manner of Game. Of Breeding and Managing Canary-Birds, &c. &c. And several other Articles too numerous to be mentioned in a Title Page. Compiled by Mr. T. Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The complete sportsman; or Country Gentleman's recreation. Containing The very best Instructions under the following Heads. Viz. Of Breeding and the Management of Game-Cocks. Of Cock-Fighting. Of Colts and backing Colts. Of the Breeding and Management of Race-Horses, Hunters, &c. Of Horse-Racing. Of Bowling. Of Coursing. Of Hare-Hunting. Of Fox-Hunting. Of Buck-Hunting. Of Breeding and Ordering all Manner of Dogs, Pigeons, Rabbits, &c. Of Angling. Of Otters and Otter-Hunting. Of Pheasants. Partridges. Wood-Cocks, and all Manner of Game. Of Breeding and Managing Canary Birds, &c. &c. And several other Articles too numerous to be mentioned in a Title Page. Compiled by Mr. T. Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Pictures
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Singapore: two race-going celebrities talk as a race horse is ridden past them. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.
Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885.Date: 1881Reference: 32544iPart of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.- Books
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The law of horses, including the law of innkeepers, veterinary surgeons, &c. and of hunting, racing, wagers & gaming / by George Henry Hewitt Oliphant.
Oliphant, George Henry Hewitt.Date: 1896- Books
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The Complete jockey, or, The most exact rules and methods to be observed for the training up of race-horses : shewing how to prepare them for any heats or courses, with the manner of their keepings, instructions for their dressing and looking to their scourings, diets, matches, and racings, with every particular to be observed therein ... : to which is added, the most experienced way for buying horses, and instructions to avoid being cheated upon the like occasion, with a relation of the cheats and tricks the jockies and horse-coursers put on the unexpert buyers.
Date: 1695- Pictures
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Singapore: a stubborn horse at the start of Singapore racecourse. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.
Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885.Date: 1881Reference: 32521iPart of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.- Pictures
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Kuching, Sarawak: horses being mounted in the racecourse paddock. Photograph.
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The law of horses : including the law of innkeepers, veterinary surgeons, &c., and of hunting, racing, wagers & gaming / by George Henry Hewitt Oliphant.
Oliphant, George Henry Hewitt.Date: 1865- Books
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Anecdotes relating to the antiquity and progress of horse-races, for Above Two Thousand Years.
Burton, John, 1710-1771.Date: 1769- Books
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The supplement to the General stud-book, being the produce of mares, continued to 1799, inclusive / by the same author. To which is added, a short dissertation on horses, by Colonel Gilbert Ironside.
Date: 1800- Books
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The sportsman's sure guide, or Gamester's Vade-Mecum; shewing the exact odds at horse-racing, lotteries, raffles, Cock-Fighting, Cards, &c. &c. With a Table, shewing the Odds of the Variety of Chances of throwing any Number of Points with Dice, from One to Ten inclusive; Also the Odds of Back-Gammon, Bowls, Coits, &c. The whole forming a complete guide to the turf, the cock-pit, the card-table, and other Species of Public Diversion, either in the Parlor or the Field. By Henry Proctor, At Woodhouse, near Masham, in Yorkshire.
Proctor, Henry.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Warwick races, 1786. On Tuesday the 22d, of August, will be run for over Warwick course, a purse of fifty pounds, free for any horse, &c. Four year olds, carrying 7st. 5lb. Five year olds, 8st. 6lb. Six year olds, 9st, and aged. 9st. 41b. Winners of one plate this year carrying 31b. of two, 51b, and of three 71b, extra,-four mile heats. ...
Warwick Races.Date: 1786]- Books
The history and delineation of the horse, in all his varieties. Comprehending the appropriate uses, management, and progressive improvement of each; with a particular investigation of the character of the race-horse, and the business of the turf ; illustrated by anecdotes and biographical notices of distinguished sportsmen ; the engravings from original paintings. With instructions for breeding, breaking, training, and the general management of the horse, both in a state of health and of disease / By John Lawrence.
Lawrence, John, 1753-1839.Date: 1809- Books
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The gamesters law; wherein is treated, of unlawful games, and what are esteemed such in our law. What Considerations are good to ground an Assumpsit for Money won upon Wagers and Bets. Several Cases on Particular Games; As Dice, Cards, Horse-Racing, Cock-Fighting, &c. Of Pleading the Statute 16 Car. 2. c. 7. Against Excessive Gaming, and the Explanation thereof, and what Securities given for Money won at Play, are avoided by the said Statute, in several Nice Cases Argued and Resolved by the Judges. Of Cheats in Gaming. Remedy against Cheats in several resolv'd Cases by Action at Law, or by Indictments, &c. Of the Power of the Justices by the Common and Statute Law in punishing Offenders, and searching Gaming Houses.
Date: 1708- Books
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A dissertation on breeding of horses, upon philosophical and experimental principles; being An attempt to promote thereby an Improvement in the Present Manner of Breeding Racers, And Horses in general. Also some material observations upon those sorts of foreign horses, which are adapted to racing; particularly those of the kingdom of Yemine, in Arabia Foelix, or South Arabia. Also those of Arabia Petrea, or North Arabia. And likewise those of Barbary, Turky, and Ethiopia. In a Letter to a Friend. By Richard Wall.
Wall, Richard, horse breeder.Date: [1760?]- Books
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The gamesters law: wherein is treated, of unlawful games. What considerations are good to ground an assumpsit for money won upon wagers and bets. Several Cases on particular Games; as Dice, Cards, Horse-Racing, Cock-Fighting, &c. Of Pleading the Statute 16 Car. 2. c. 7. against Excessive Gaming, and the Explanation thereof, and what Securities given for Money won at Play, are avoided by the said Statute, in several nice Cases argued and resolved by the Judges. Of Cheats in Gaming. Remedy against Cheats, in several resolved Cases by Action at Law, or by Indictments, &c. Of the Power of the Justices by the Common and Statute-Law, in punishing Offenders, and searching Gaming-Houses. To which is added. An abstract of an act passed in the ninth year of Q. Anne, for preventing excessive and deceitful gaming, with some Observations thereon.
Date: 1711- Pictures
The St Leger horse race. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1850.
Hall, Harry, 1813-1882.Date: [1850?]Reference: 2491246i- Books
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Hints on horses, with short notes on camels and pack animals : also a few practical suggestions on the training of polo ponies and players, and gymkhana training and racing / collected by H.P. Young.
Date: 1907- Books
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Some particulars relating to the history of Epsom / compiled from the best authorities; containing a ... description of the origin of horse racing, and of Epsom races, with an account of the mineral waters, and the two celebrated palaces of Durdans and Nonsuch, &c., &c. To which is added, an appendix, containing a botanical survey of the neighbourhood ... By an inhabitant [i.e. H. Pownall].
Pownall, Henry, of Epsom, Eng.Date: 1825