Robert Black 
Horse-Racing in England [PDF ebook] 
A Synoptical Review

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Horse-racing in England, and the growth of the institution which is commonly called the English Turf, are subjects upon which information, both general and particular, is requested intermittently, whenever any great race is about to be decided, by all sorts and conditions of men, as common experience proves. But the public interest in such matters is not sufficiently absorbing or continuous to secure a wide patronage for the ponderous volumes, published at a correspondingly heavy price, in which one or two attempts have been made from time to time to satisfy what is a constantly recurring, but nevertheless, with the majority of mankind, a transient desire.