Pelicans A203 - Horse-Racing The Breeding of Thoroughbreds and a Short History of the English Turf

SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR PELICAN BOOKS AND FIRST PUBLISHED 1949

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF TWO BRILLIANT RACING JOURNALISTS ARTHUR FITZHARDINGE BERKELEY PORTMAN ‘AUDAX’ OF ‘HORSE AND HOUND’ AND ‘PROFESSOR’ JAMES BELL ROBERTSON M.R.C.V.S. ‘MANKATO’ OF ‘THE SPORTING CHRONICLE’ AND ‘THE SUNDAY TIMES’

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