The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 120A. Constable, 1864 |
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Page 126
... four- mile course . The Royal Plates also were usually run in four- mile heats , with heavier weights than at present . A curious description of this kind of race has been preserved to us in a letter of the celebrated Duke of Wharton ...
... four- mile course . The Royal Plates also were usually run in four- mile heats , with heavier weights than at present . A curious description of this kind of race has been preserved to us in a letter of the celebrated Duke of Wharton ...
Page 128
... four of carabineers and four of cuirassiers , all very fine corps , but mounted on horses which , in the opinion of the English officers present , would only have been thought good enough for light cavalry in England . The regulation ...
... four of carabineers and four of cuirassiers , all very fine corps , but mounted on horses which , in the opinion of the English officers present , would only have been thought good enough for light cavalry in England . The regulation ...
Page 143
... four of them . Never- theless it were much to be wished that some stakes should be devised by which the winners of the great races might be brought together at four and five years old . The interest of the Ascot Cup mainly consists in ...
... four of them . Never- theless it were much to be wished that some stakes should be devised by which the winners of the great races might be brought together at four and five years old . The interest of the Ascot Cup mainly consists in ...
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a Biography 15901632 By John | 1 |
The Horses of the Sahara by General Daumas | 3 |
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