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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...been imagined by any one in the least conversant with the human character; nor did it follow by any means, that although his Royal Highness had been forced to withdraw himself from one pursuit, that was attended with an enormous expense to him, yet that there were not others of a still more ruinous nature to which he was addicted, and which he still followed with all the reckless enthusiasm of the individual, who although he sees before him the abyss in which his terrestrial happiness is to be destroyed, thoughtlessly rushes into it, never to be afterwards restored to the station which he once held in the ranks of society. Towards the latter part of the year 1792, the whole stud of his Royal Highness, amounting in all to twenty-eight head, was disposed of, and produced, what we should at the present day consider the rather inadequate sum of about five thousand guineas. This sacrifice, although in every respect it did him honour, was, no doubt, a painful one to his feelings. Its bitterness was not a little enhanced by the peculiar circumstances of the case, as well as the particular good fortune that had attended his stud during the previous year. In 1791 we find him the winner of no less than thirty-one races, including seven king's plates; and it has been very pointedly asked, how it was possible that his Royal Highness, who in the year 1791 won almost every race for which his horses started, could, on his retirement from the turf, have been so considerable a loser, and involved in such distressing embarrassments? 111 order that a correct opinion may be formed of the success of his Royal Highness, during the year 1791, we subjoin the following: --Mademoiselle by Diomed, 660gs. at Newmarket. Devi Sing by Eclipse, 150gs. and 50A at Lewes. Don Quixote by Eclip...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236046864
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 212
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236046862
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 386 gr


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