Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - Horses |
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... riders as I have named considered the thing impracticable to them . The man would soon get sick of it , and so would his horse . We know that a ball of 50lb . weight let fall from a height will make more impression where it falls than ...
... riders as I have named considered the thing impracticable to them . The man would soon get sick of it , and so would his horse . We know that a ball of 50lb . weight let fall from a height will make more impression where it falls than ...
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... riders for whose sakes I should like to lay the same inventive genius under contribution to produce a man - drag that should prevent them getting on a horse at all . Great as unquestionably is the merit of his carriage drag , let him ...
... riders for whose sakes I should like to lay the same inventive genius under contribution to produce a man - drag that should prevent them getting on a horse at all . Great as unquestionably is the merit of his carriage drag , let him ...
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... riders , but now the property of the deal- er . I asked where the horse was going , and was told , as a secret , that he was going to - to be tried against another - his owner having some idea of en- tering him for a steeple - race ...
... riders , but now the property of the deal- er . I asked where the horse was going , and was told , as a secret , that he was going to - to be tried against another - his owner having some idea of en- tering him for a steeple - race ...
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... riders , when standing in their stirrups , could only be compared to a man standing on his feet with a Newfoundland dog between his legs , thus leaving room for an ordinary pointer between the seat and the saddle . No man with such a ...
... riders , when standing in their stirrups , could only be compared to a man standing on his feet with a Newfoundland dog between his legs , thus leaving room for an ordinary pointer between the seat and the saddle . No man with such a ...
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... rider to enable him to ride to hounds , if , as formerly , men hunted from a love of hunting . The time was when men ... riders in the field as the present . But I am 44 HEAVY WEIGHTS . quite clear this not a time.
... rider to enable him to ride to hounds , if , as formerly , men hunted from a love of hunting . The time was when men ... riders in the field as the present . But I am 44 HEAVY WEIGHTS . quite clear this not a time.
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