Horse-Racing in England - A Synoptical Review #264490

Horse-racing in England, and the growth of the institution which is commonly called the English Turf, are subjects upon which information, both general and particular, is requested intermittently, whenever any great race is about to be decided, by all sorts and conditions of men, as common experience proves. But the public interest in such matters is not sufficiently absorbing or continuous to secure a wide patronage for the ponderous volumes, published at a correspondingly heavy price, in which one or two attempts have been made from time to time to satisfy what is a constantly recurring, but nevertheless, with the majority of mankind, a transient desire.