Author: Alfred Edward Thomas Watson

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781332322060

Excerpt from The Racing World and Its Inhabitants In these days, when books issue from the press in such profusion, something more than a mere excuse is required from anyone who ventures to add to the number. The justification I beg leave to put forward for publishing The Racing World and its Inhabitants is that, so far as I am aware, no similar book has ever been produced. Various persons connected with the Turf in different ways have, indeed, figured as authors. Holcroft the dramatist, who, as a lad, was employed in a training stable, wrote about his early life; Samuel Chifney, the famous jockey, had compiled a small treatise on his profession four years prior to the publication in 1804 of his better-known Genius Genuine; and nearly a century later another member of the same calling, H. Custance, who thrice rode the winner of the Derby, followed suit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.