A Mirror of the Turf or the Machinery of Horse-Racing Revealed, Showing the Sport of Kings as It Is to-Day (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Mirror of the Turf or the Machinery of Horse-Racing Revealed, Showing the Sport of Kings as It Is to-Day The details of the "Sport oi Kings" embraced in the following pages, do not claim to be a consecutive history of the turf, nor are they intended for the instruction of professional racing men. The author makes no pretensions to teach trainers how to train horses, or jockeys how to ride them, and in no sense, except that it is offered for their perusal, is the work-intended for those who make the "business" of the turf the work of their lives , the book has been written for other persons and other purposes. It is necessary to state this much plainly, because when a paper or an article pertaining to the "great national sport" appears in a review or magazine, it is at once stigmatised by the sporting journals as containing only "pipers' news, " and in the view of the critics it may be so, but such articles are not written to instruct the critics, but to inform the public. Histories and other works dealing with horse-racing have at intervals been published, while at the present time there are three daily journals as well as a dozen weekly papers exclusively devoted to what has been called "the great game, " and other sports. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.