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320 pages 31 cm The first book ever to tell the history of horse racing throughout the world from the ancient Greek Olympic games to racing and steeplechasing today Includes bibliographical references (page 312) The ancient world -- The middle ages -- The sixteenth century -- Britain : Early stuarts and commonwealth -- Britain : Restoration and later stuarts -- Creation of the thoroughbred -- Seventeenth-century Europe -- Georgian Britain : Horses and races -- Georgian Britain : Controls and people -- Eighteenth-century Europe and Russia -- Colonial America -- Nineteenth-century Britain : Bentinck and before -- Nineteenth-century Britain : Rous and after -- Nineteenth-century Britain : Courses, jockeys, trainers, marginalia -- British steeplechasing -- Ireland -- Nineteenth-century France -- Nineteenth-century Europe and Russia -- America : Revolution to Civil War -- America : Civil War to 1914 -- American harness racing -- South Africa -- Australia and New Zealand -- India -- The rest of the world in the nineteenth century -- The belle epoque and the American invasion -- 1914 and after

Author

Longrigg, Roger, 1929-2000

Publisher

New York, Stein and Day

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812814880

Subjects

Sports, Agriculture, History

Rating

4 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13