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

Download or read book A Mirror of the Turf Or the Machinery of Horse-Racing Revealed, Showing the Sport of Kings as It Is To-Day (Classic Reprint) written by Louis Henry Curzon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Mirror of the Turf or the Machinery of Horse-Racing Revealed, Showing the Sport of Kings as It Is to-Day Sporting writers, when turf matters are being considered, and the sordid motives of the majority of those who frequent racecourses and other turf resorts are being called in question, cry out loudly about the unfairness of attacking the turf, and allowing the more gigantic gambling of which the Stock Exchange is the theatre to escape censure. But as the' proverb says, two blacks will never make one white; besides, this book is not an attack on horse racing, it is simply, as its title indicates, a mirror Of the turf. It is the Sport of Kings only which is treated of in the following pages; the author willingly leaves the wide subject of commercial morality or immorality, to be treated by other pens. 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.