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The St Leger horse race. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1850.
Hall, Harry, 1813-1882.Date: [1850?]Reference: 2491246i- Pictures
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A race horse with jockey. Engraving by W. B. Scott after A. Cooper.
Cooper, Abraham, 1787-1868.Reference: 40388i- 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- Pictures
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A nobleman surrounded by bookmakers places bets at a horse-race. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
Dawe, Henry Edward, 1790-1848.Date: [between 1840 and 1849]Reference: 32910iPart of: Life of a nobleman- 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.- 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- 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: MDCCC. [1800]- Pictures
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Kuching, Sarawak: view of the racecourse. Photograph.
Reference: 30157i- 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- Archives and manuscripts
English Commonplace Book, early 19th century
Date: c. 1801-1811Reference: MS.7739- 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
Two men lie in a ditch behind a hedge on a race course as another on horseback jumps over them. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 588935i- Pictures
A horserace. Watercolour by Barbara Lievesley, 1967.
Lievesley, Barbara, active approximately 1966-1967.Date: 12.1.67 [12 January 1967]Reference: 3000189iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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Training and horse management in India, with Hindustanee vocabulary and C.T.C. weights for age and class / by M. Horace Hayes.
Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842-1904.Date: 1893- Pictures
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Hong Kong: the racecourse. Photograph, 1873 by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
Floyd, William Pryor.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 29706iPart of: Floyd, William Pryor.- Pictures
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Above, two horses and their riders are approaching the finishing post in a race at Newmarket, eagerly awaited by a crowd; below, grooms and horses taking their exercises on a field outside the town of Newmarket. Chromolithograph after E. F. Burney and J. Bodger after J. Wootton.
Wootton, John, approximately 1682-1764.Date: 10 January 1891Reference: 41373i- Pictures
The Circus of Flaminius (or Circus Flaminius), Rome: reconstruction of its unruined state. Line engraving by N. Beatrizet, 1552, after P. Ligorio.
Ligorio, Pirro, approximately 1513-1583.Date: [1552]Reference: 2977750i- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run, and of plates and prizes run for in Great Britain and Ireland in 1743. Containing The Names of the Owners of the Horses that have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. With The Winner distinguished of every Match, Plate, Prize, or Stakes: The Conditions of Running, as to Weight, Age, &c. and the Places in which the losing Horses have come in. With a List also of the principal Cock-Matches of the Year above, and who were the Winners and Losers of them, &c. By John Cheny.
Cheny, John, active 1729-1750.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run; and of plates and prizes run for in Great Britain and Ireland, in the year 1761. Containing, I. The Names of the Owners of the Horses that have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. II. The Winner distinguished of every Match, Plate, Prize, or Stakes. III. The Conditions of Running as 10 Weights, Age, &c. and the Places in which the loosing Horses have come in. IV. A Table of Weights that Horses are to carry for Give and Take Plates, from twelve to fifteen Hands high. V. An Alphabetical List o Stallions, with the Number and Names of the winning Horses of each Stallion's get, in the Years 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, and 1761. VI. A List of the principal Cock Matches of the present Year, and who were the Winners and Loosers of them, &c. &c. &c. By Reginald Heber. Vol. XI.
Heber, Reginald.Date: M.D.CC.LXII. [1762]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run. And of plates and prizes run for in Great Britain and Ireland, in the year 1760. Containing, I. The Names of the Owners of the Horses that have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. II. The Winner distinguished of every Match, Plate, Prize, or Stakes. III. The Conditions of Running as to weights, Age, &c. and the Places in which the loosing Horses have come in. IV. A Table of Weights that Horses are to carry for Give and Take Plates from twelve to fifteen Hands high. V. An Alphabetical List of Stallions, with the Number and Names of the winning Horses of each Stallion's get, in the Years 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760. VI. A List of the principal Cock Matches of the present Year, and who were the Winners and Loosers of them, &c. &c. &c. By Reginald Heber. Vol. X.
Heber, Reginald.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run. And of plates and prizes run for in Great Britain and Ireland, in the year 1755. Containing, I. The Names of the Owners of the Horses that have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. II. The Winner distinguished of every Match, Plate, Prize, or Stakes. III. The Conditions of Running as to Weights, Age, &c. and the Places in which the loosing Horses have come in. IV. A Table of Weights that Horses are to carry for Give and Take Plates from twelve to fifteen Hands high. V. An Alphabetical List of Stallions, with the Number and Names of the winning Horses of each Stallion's get, in the Years 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, and 1755. VI. A List of the principal Cock Matches of the present Year, and who were the Winners and Loosers of them, &c. &c. &c. By Reginald Heber. Vol. V.
Heber, Reginald.Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run. And of plates and prizes run for in Great Britain and Ireland, in the year 1758. Containing, I. The Names of the Owners of the Horses that have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. II. The Winner distinguished of every Match, Plate, Prize, or Stakes. III. The Conditions of Running as to Weights, Age, &c. and the Places in which the loosing Horses have come in. IV. A Table of Weights that Horses are to carry for Give and Take Plates from twelve to fifteen Hands high. V. An Alphabetical List of Stallions, with the Number and Names of the winning Horses of each Stallion's get, in the Years 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1757 and 1758. VI. A List of the principal Cock Matches of the present Year, and who were the Winners and Loosers of them, &c. &c. &c. By Reginald Heber. Vol. VIII.
Heber, Reginald.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run. And of plates and prizes run for in Great Britain and Ireland, in the year 1757. containing, I. The Names of the Owners of the Horses that have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. II. The Winner distinguished of every Match, Plate, Prize, or Stakes. III. The Conditions of Running as to Weights, Age, &c. and the Places in which the loosing Horses have come in. IV. A Table of Weights that Horses are to carry for Give and Take Plates from twelve to fifteen Hands high. V. An Alphabetical List of Stailions, with the Number and Names of the winning Horses of each Stallion's get, in the Years 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756 and 1757. VI. A List of the principal Cock Matches of the present Year, and who were the Winners and Loosers of them, &c. &c. &c. By Reginald Heber. Vol. Vii.
Heber, Reginald.Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1758]- Books
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An historical list of horse-matches run. And of plates and prizes run for in Great Britain and Ireland, in the year 1754 Containing, I. The Names the Owners of the Horses that have Run as above, and the Names and Colours of the Horses also. II. The Winner distinguished of every Match, Plate, Prize or Stakes. III. The Conditions of Running as to Weight, Age, &c. and the Place in which the loosing Horses have come in. IV. A Table of Weights that Horses are to carry for Give and Take Plates from twelve to fifteen Hands high. V. An Alphabetical List of Stalions, with the Number and Names of the winning Horses of each Stallion's get, in the Years 1751, 1752, 1753, and 1754. VI. A List of the principal Cock Matches of the present Year, and who were the Winners and Loosers of them, &c. &c. &c. By Reginald Heber. Vol. IV.
Heber, Reginald.Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]