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Ascot race-course, Berkshire: spectators have abandoned their food and drink outside a tent and have turned to watch the horses racing past. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.
Lewis, Muriel, active approximately 1966-1968.Date: June 67 [June 1967]Reference: 3000211iPart of: Adamson Collection- Ephemera
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Walter's Buchatone / Walter's Drugs, Inc.
Walter's Drugs, Inc.Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]- Books
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An authentic historical racing calendar of all the plates, sweepstakes, matches, &c. run for at York, from the first commencement of the races there in the year 1709, to the year 1785 inclusive; ... In which is also given pedigrees and performances of the most celebrated race-horses, ... By W. Pick of York.
Pick, W. (William), 1759?-1816.Date: [1785]- 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 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- 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- 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.
Reference: 30159i- Books
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Markham's master-piece containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. 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 sixteenth time printed, corrected, and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd . To which is added, the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, dogs, and all smaller cattle. Also the compleat jockey ; containing methods for the training horses up for racing ... To which is added ... directions to preserve all sorts of cattle, from all manner of diseases ... / [Gervase Markham].
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: 1703- Books
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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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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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- Pictures
The St Leger horse race. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1850.
Hall, Harry, 1813-1882.Date: [1850?]Reference: 2491246i- Pictures
King William IV and Lord Grey inspect a race-horse with the head of Lord Althorp in a paddock. Coloured lithograph by John Doyle, 1831.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 1 March 1831Reference: 651321i- 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- 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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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 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- 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?]- Archives and manuscripts
English Commonplace Book, early 19th century
Date: c. 1801-1811Reference: MS.7739- Books
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The gentleman's compleat jockey: with the perfect horse-man and experienc'd farrier. Containing, I. The nature of horses; their breeding, feeding and management in all paces, to fit them for war, racing, travel, hunting, or other recreations and advantages. II. The true method with proper rules and directions to order, diet and physick 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 b[a]d 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 farrier in curing all diseases, griefs, and sorrances incident to horses; with their symptoms and causes. VI. The methods of shooing, blooding, rowling, purging and prevention of diseases, and many other things from long experience and approved practice. By A.S. gent.
A. S.Date: 1717