Newmarket & ArabiaGeorg Olms Verlag |
Contenido
1 | |
CHAPTER II | 10 |
CHAPTER III | 90 |
APPENDIX The causes of degeneracy among horses in other countries | 130 |
CHAPTER III | 152 |
CHAPTER I | 163 |
CHAPTER II | 181 |
CONCLUSION | 194 |
LIST OF ARABIANS BARBS TURKS AND FOREIGN HORSES | 201 |
PEDIGREES | 207 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Newmarket and Arabia: An Examination of the Descent of Racers and Coursers Roger D. Upton Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
Términos y frases comunes
14 hands Abd-el-Kader Anezah animal appear Arab horse Arab or Barb Arabian horse Arabian Mare Bartlet's Childers Bay Barb bay horse Bay Middleton Beadsman Blink Bonny bred breed of horses breeding back brown horse Byerly Turk carrying 8 st chest chestnut horse Darley Arabian blood daughter dead heat descendants direct male descent Eastern blood Eastern horse Eclipse Egypt English horse English racer entirely of Eastern excellence Flying Childers foaled Gladiator Godolphin Arab Gohanna granddam grandson of Flying great-grandson half-bred Herod Highflyer horse of Eastern horses and mares hunter infusion Joe Andrews Joktan King Fergus Leedes Arabian Leger Lord Marske Matchem miles Morocco Barb Natural Barb Mare Nejed Orville pedigree perfect possessed Pot8os pure Arabian pure blood race racehorse secs Selim shoulders Sir Peter sire sister sons Spanker speed strains Stud Book Sultan thorough-bred horse Thousand Guineas Touchstone tribes Trumpator War Horse Waxy winner Woodpecker
Pasajes populares
Página 111 - These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Página 119 - And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
Página 142 - ... they were so exquisitely well shaped that want of greater size seemed hardly, if at all, a defect. Remarkably full in the haunches, with a shoulder of a slope so elegant as to make one, in the words of an Arab poet,
Página 125 - And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them.
Página 142 - I do not think that any came fully up to fifteen hands : fourteen appeared to me to be about their average; but they were so exquisitely well shaped that want of greater size seemed hardly, if at all, a defect. Remarkably full in the haunches, with a shoulder of a slope so elegant as to make one, in the words of an Arab poet, 'go raving mad...
Página 37 - Childers, except one that was choked when very young by eating chaff. Mr. Cheney says, ' he has heard the contrary from so many gentlemen of worth and honour, that he cannot but be of opinion that he was own brother to him.
Página 142 - ... did pint-pots exist in Nejed ; a most intelligent and yet a singularly gentle look, full eye, sharp thorn-like little ear, legs fore and hind that seemed as if made of hammered iron, so clean and yet so well twisted with sinew; a neat round hoof, just the requisite for hard ground; the tail set on or rather thrown out at a perfect arch...
Página i - NEWMARKET AND ARABIA; AN EXAMINATION OF THE DESCENT OF RACERS AND COURSERS. By Roger D. 'Upton, Captain late gth Royal Lancers. Post 8vo. With Pedigrees and Coloured Frontispiece. gs. " It contains a good deal of truth, and it abounds with valuable suggestions.
Referencias a este libro
Sport und Rekord: kultursoziologische Untersuchungen zum England des ... Maria Kloeren Vista de fragmentos - 1935 |