Unfancied racehorses?

THE BOOK section of this Worcester sale contained a good many equestrian titles, and while several seemed to be fairly modern and were job-lotted, what appears to have been the most important of these horse books was tacked onto a lot that led with an 1830 History of the Hundred of Carhampton in the County of Somerset by James Savage, and “three other books”.

The “four volumes of Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses” which made up the lot, I take to be Thomas …

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