The History of the Racing Calendar and Stud-book
Author: Charles Matthew Prior
Publisher:
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
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Horseracing and the British, 1919–39
Author: Mike Huggins
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1847795757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book provides a detailed consideration of the history of racing in British culture and society, and explores the cultural world of racing during the interwar years. The book shows how racing gave pleasure even to the supposedly respectable middle classes and gave some working-class groups hope and consolation during economically difficult times. Regular attendance and increased spending on betting were found across class and generation, and women too were keen participants. Enjoyed by the royal family and controlled by the Jockey Club and National Hunt Committee, racing's visible emphasis on rank and status helped defend hierarchy and gentlemanly amateurism, and provided support for more conservative British attitudes. The mass media provided a cumulative cultural validation of racing, helping define national and regional identity, and encouraging the affluent consumption of sporting experience and a frank enjoyment of betting. The broader cultural approach of the first half of the book is followed by an exploration if the internal culture of racing itself.
Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing
Author: Dr Joyce Kay
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 113576266X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing offers an innovative approach to one of Britain's oldest sports. While it considers the traditional themes of gambling and breeding, and contains biographies of human personalities and equine stars, it also devotes significant space to neglected areas. Entries include: social, economic and political forces that have influenced racing controversial historical and current issues legal and illegal gambling, and racing finance the British impact on world horseracing history and heritage of horseracing links between horse racing and the arts, media and technology human and equine biographies venues associated with racing horseracing websites The Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing provides a unique source of information and will be of great interest to sports historians as well as all those whose work or leisure brings them into the world of racing.
The American Stud Book
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Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining full pedigree of all the imported thorough-bred stallions and mares, with their produce.
Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914
Author: Mike Huggins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1135264252
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year This volume studies the formative period of racing between 1790 and 1914. This was a time when, despite the opposition of a respectable minority, attendance at horse races, betting on horses, or reading about racing increasingly became central leisure activities of much of British society.
Sport as History
Author: Tony Collins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1317987039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished to mark the career of one of sports history’s pioneers, this book traces the evolution of sport across three continents. It brings together some of sports history’s leading scholars to investigate not only the history of sport but also how that history is written. This Festschrift marks the retirement of Professor Wray Vamplew – an internationally-renowned leader in the field of sports history. His 1976 book The Turf was one of the very first academic histories of sport and he has been a prolific writer, scholar and teacher for almost forty years. No one has played such an important role in the field of sports history across North America, Europe and Australia. President of the Australian, Australian Society of Sports History (ASSH), the British Society of Sports History (BSSH), the European Committee for the History of Sport (CESH) and the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES), Vamplew is currently editor of the North American Society for Sports History’s (NASSH) journal, the Journal of Sport History. This collection reflects his interests and his appeal across the three continents, the essays deal with sport in America, Australia, Britain and Ireland and focus on the themes of national and regional identity, gender, trade unionism in sport and historiographical debates. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of sport and how it is studied today. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in History.
A Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1880-[95]: 1891-1895
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 966
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Horse of America in His Derivation, History, and Development
Author: John Hankins Wallace
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-11-05
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the chapters which follow, many historical questions regarding the origin of horses in the United States, are treated at such length as their relative importance seems to demand, embracing the different families that have contributed to the building up of the breed of trotters; and the question of how the trotting horse is bred is carefully considered in the light of all past experiences and brought down to the close of 1896.
Eclipse
Author: Nicholas Clee
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1468300059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWatching Eclipse is the man who wants to buy him. An adventurer and rogue who has made his money through gambling, Dennis O'Kelly is also a known companion to the madam of a notorious London brothel. Under O'Kelly's management, Eclipse would go on a winning streak unparalleled for the next two centuries. As journalist Nicholas Clee explores in this captivating romp, while O'Kelly was destined to remain an outcast to the racing establishment, his horse would go on to become the undisputed, undefeated champion of the sport. Not only a consummate winner, Eclipse exemplified the perfect thoroughbred -- a status he retains even today. Eclipse's male-line descendants include Secretariat, Barbaro, and all but three of the Kentucky Derby winners of the past fifty years.
