Eclipse : the horse that changed racing history forever
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- ISBN: 9781590207376
- ISBN: 1590207378
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Physical Description:
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343 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. - Publisher: New York : Overlook Press, 2012.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | First published: Great Britain : Bantam Press, 2009. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-321) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- The chairman -- The bawd -- The gambler -- The duke -- The meat salesman -- The young thoroughbred -- Coup de Foudre -- The rest nowhere -- 1-100 Eclipse -- The first lady abbess -- The stallion -- The most glorious spectacle -- Cross and jostle -- An example to the turf -- The 14lb heart -- The litigant -- The decline of the jontleman -- Artists' models -- Eclipse's legacy : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Eclipse's legacy : the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The skeleton -- Appendix 1 : Eclipse's racing career -- Appendix 2 : Eclipse's pedigree -- Appendix 3 : The O'Kelly family -- Appendix 4 : Racing terms, historical and contemporary. |
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Subject: | Horse racing Great Britain History 18th century Eclipse (Race horse) |
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