Mr. Editor: Natchez, Nov. 22, 1830 I have seen with pleasure, and I hope, some profit, the “instructions for training race horses,” given by “A …
“Could Nature More Clearly Sanction the Sports of the Turf?”
From an 1831 issue of the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, here’s an amusing anecdote about a pair of highly trained thoroughbreds, who ran their race without having to be asked – just like the plucky Virginia colt who crossed the finish line first in “A Toast to …
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