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Excerpt from The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses: Containing Portraits of All the Winners of the Derby, Oaks and St. Leger Stakes, During the Last Twenty Years; And a History of the Principal Operation of the Turf Racing in the Olden Time, although, perhaps, in interest and merit equal to that of our day, was wanting in the modern excellence of chronicles, descriptive and pictorial. The specimen at the head of this page, faithfully copied from an old print representing A view of a Horse Match at Newmarket, between Grey-Windham and Bay Bolton, painted from the Life, by that celebrated artist, Mr John Wootton, will bear sufficient testimony to the character of the pictorial representations of those famous races, which no chronicler has been found to describe. As a specimen of the different style of modern days, the present volume is offered to the public, in the belief that a complete collection of the Annals of the Turf, during the past twenty years, will not be found uninteresting by those who take pleasure in its pursuits. 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.

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