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A jockey riding a race-horse. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 1887Reference: 28103iPart of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements- Pictures
Three men face three thin pedestals on which stand a figure with a cross, a man with a red cap and a block inscribed 'republic' in a field in which stand tents beyond which is a horse race. Lithograph, 1845.
Date: 1845Reference: 643500i- Books
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Markham's master-piece revived : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases in horses. ... Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the fifteenth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publisht. To which is added by way of appendix, The countrey-man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel, with many new additions. And now in this impression is added The complete jockey; containing methods for the training of horses up for racing; with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating horse-coursers; and all things necessary for gentlemen, and others. Never before made publick.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1694 [i.e. 1695]- E-books
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Careless and atlass. A favourite horse-race song
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A warning against sexually transmitted diseases: in a three-horse race watched by Death, syphilis is about to overtake tuberculosis, while cancer comes third. Colour lithograph by E.-C. Jodelet, 1926.
Jodelet, Emmanuel-Charles, 1883-1973.Date: [1926]Reference: 545733i- E-books
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The Horse race; or, The pleasures of the course
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Kuching, Sarawak: horses being mounted in the racecourse paddock. Photograph.
Reference: 30159i- Pictures
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Crowds of people are watching the horse racing in a large field with marquees in it. Colour process print.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 34566i- 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- Pictures
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Above, an arabian horse, a race horse, a draft horse and an ass; below, two zebras. Engraving.
Date: 1 June 1806Reference: 40498i- Pictures
Nettie, a champion horse at harness racing. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1874.
Date: [1874?]Reference: 2491248i- Books
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Markham's master-piece revived : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases in horses. ... Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the twelfth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd: all which in the author's life-time were concealed for his own benefit, being the most exact work that ever was published of this nature. To which is added by way of appendix, The country-man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel. An now in this impression is added the complete jockey; with methods for the training of horses up for racing: with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. With instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating hor.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1681- Books
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A short history of the celebrated race-horse 'Eclipse' / [Anon].
Clark, Bracy, 1771-1860Date: 1835]- Pictures
Above, a rider amending the reins on his horse; below, two riders jumping a hurdle with their horses while two men at the goalpost are watching on. Woodcut.
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Horse racing: one rider shortly following another. Colour lithograph in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.
Tosa, Mitsuoki, 1617-1691.Date: 1894Reference: 728858iPart of: Japanese courtly recreations, sports and entertainments. Colour lithographs in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.- Pictures
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Singapore: a police officer clearing two race-goers from the racecourse. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.
Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885.Date: 1881Reference: 32537iPart of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.- Books
The influence of racing and the thoroughbred horse in light-horse breeding / by William Scarth Dixon.
Dixon, William Scarth.Date: [1925]- E-books
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Parody, on the celebrated song of The race horse. By Thomas Clio Rickman
Rickman, Thomas Clio- Pictures
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Six different scenes from a race course, including a horse running off without the jockey, a rider mounting a horse and a dog following a race horse on the track. Coloured line block by V. Geruzez.
Crafty, 1840-1906.Reference: 41749i- Pictures
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A horse has been killed after jumping a hurdle in a steeplechase: the jockey holding a whip looks at it with concern. Wood engraving by E. Froment, 1874 after W. Small.
Small, William, 1843-1929.Date: [1874]Reference: 41364i- Pictures
Three men racing on horseback are chased by a black figure with a spear on a race course watched by a crowd of people. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 588934i- Pictures
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Kuching, Sarawak: view of the racecourse. Photograph.
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Two men grooming and getting a race horse ready on a race course. Lithograph by E. Purcell after C. Vernet.
Vernet, Carle, 1758-1836.Date: 21 March 1821Reference: 41379i- Books
Cavelarice, or The English horseman : contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation / by Geruase Markham.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: [1607]- Pictures
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Crowds watching horses approach the finishing line of the Derby. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker after G. Doré.
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883.Date: 1872Reference: 34571i