Description
Old Sporting, characters and occasions from sporting and road history, by Hugh McCausland, 1st edition 1948, 9″ x 6″, 167 pages + index, illustrated with b+w pictures. Contents, hunting squires, John Ward and Blue Ruin, T Thornton of thornville Royal, Tregonwell Frampton of Newmarket, Col Hawker of Longparish, section 2 Horse and Highway, Characters of the road, St Martins Le Grand and its mail coaches, on the road with Col Hawker, road matches and rides, Newmarket matches, THE SELBY RUN, LORD LONSDALE AGAINST TIME, section 3 stable and studio, Sporting painters, MAIL COACH HALFPENNIES, Tom Oldaker and his portraits, surtees illustrators, master robert and black horseOUT OF INTEREST THERE IS A PHOTO OF THE TELEGRAPH COACH BEING USED TO HANG THE PUB SIGN WITHIN THIS ARTICLE, bibliography, index, a clean copy in a good dj. _x000d_
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