Sporting Anecdotes; Original and Select, Including Characteristic Sketches of Eminent Persons Who Have Appeared on the Turf: With an Interesting ... in the Sporting World; A Correct Description - Softcover

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In the boundless variety cf anecdotes, which al most every work presents that is at all devoted to this peculiar subject, the only, and indeed the great est difiiculty, was to select with a degree of discrimi nation such articles as might be deemed worthy a place in this collection, particularly those anecdotes which commemorate and record those numerous sin gularities, and astonishing events, which the ever-va rying annals of the sporting world present; so that the reader will find himself in possession of facts, at once important and striking, which have hitherto remained scattered through an immensity of works.

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