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Excerpt from Eclipse O'k¿elly: Being a Complete History So Far as Is Known of That Celebrated English Thoroughbred Eclipse (1764-1789) Of His Breeder the Duke of Cumberland of His Subsequent Owners William Wildman Dennis O'kelly Andrew O'kelly Now for the First Time Set Forth From Hiero, King of Syracuse, won the Olympic crown with his good horse, Phrenicus are not sufficiently well known to enable me to enlarge on the antiquity and development of horse-racing. But the description of the owner is worth recalling. "August he was in his converse with citizens, and he upheld the breed of horses after the Hellenic wont." No other poet save an Englishman could have so written, and of no other king save of an English king, could Pindar's ode hold true. England has yet another parallel with ancient Greece. It was a matter of vital importance to Alcibiades, over two thousand years ago, to win that Olympic crown himself. He entered seven, and almost equalled the record of M.Edmond Blanc by owning the winner and the second. An English Prime Minister has done even better, for Lord Rosebery has won the Derby thrice, and the origin of that historic race has never been more tersely described than in Lord Rosebery's words: "In the last quarter of the eighteenth century a roystering party at a country house founded two races, and named them gratefully after their host and his house - the 'Derby' and the 'Oaks.' Seldom has a carouse had a more permanent effect." 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.