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Identifier: lifeofracehorse00mill (find matches)
Title: The life of a racehorse
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Mills, John, d. ca. 1885
Subjects: Horses Horse racing
Publisher: London : Ward and Lock
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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newspaper report in-formed its readers, that smart competition which, notwith-standing the recent disappointment the public had received,my well-earned laurels were sure to bring. Number fefty-four, cried a voice as I walked towards acorner of the yard in which was placed a kind of rostrum occu-pied by one whose looks proclaimed him healthy and happy,and well to do. Number fefty-four, repeated the temporarytenant of the rostrum with increased force, as I arrived im-mediately under his elevated post— Sheet Anchor, by MakeSafe, out of Dangerous, by Fleeceem, dam Treachery, by Nob-bier, winner of the Criterion at Newmarket Houghton Meeting,the Derby, Drawing Boom Stakes at Goodwood, Ebor St. Leger,and ran a good second for the St. Leger at Doncaster. Whatwill any gentleman please to give for Sheet Anchor 1 There was a pause, and men looked at each other as iftrying to learn what words as yet had not disclosed. May he be run down? asked a sallow-cheeked, youthful - —- \ \ _ -=—-1...
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THE SALE. 79 spectator, with a iDrimless liat and long straight hair hangingover the collar of a capacious drab-coat, on which there weregieat white buttons as big as full-grown native oysters. He may be walked down to please you, sii, replied theauctioneer, politely; but we dont run horses like SheetAnchor in a stable-yard. Ho! exclaimed the proprietor of the wliite buttons asbig as oysters; and feeling, perhaps, the keen edge of the satiremore than he could bear with resignation, he backed from hisprominent position in the throng, and took a hurried departure. The crowd now pressed so closely around me, that I beganto exliibit signs of impatience at the liberty. Take care, there, take care of his heels, hallooed the pos-sessor of the rostrum as I lashed out a leg by way of a warning. Ha, the old blood! ejaculated a well-remembered voice,and upon looking at the quarter from whence it came, therestood Kobert Top, with Toby securely but comfortably held underan arm. The earliest friend

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  • bookdecade:1860
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Mills__John__d__ca__1885
  • booksubject:Horses
  • booksubject:Horse_racing
  • bookpublisher:London___Ward_and_Lock
  • bookcontributor:Webster_Family_Library_of_Veterinary_Medicine
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