Excerpt from Horse-Racing in France: A History Circumstances rather than natural aptitude, taste, inclination, or deliberate design have made me for more than twenty years a close student of horse-racing, both English and French. Into those circumstances there is no occasion to enter, and I have not the slightest intention of being gratuitously tedious. Suffice it to say that my first experience of horse-racing carries me back more than forty years to a day of which I have still a vivid remembrance, when I saw an animal belonging to the famous Colonel (afterwards General) Peel run at a provincial race meeting; and that I believe I can still from mere memory give that animal's name (although it achieved no great celebrity) - 'I-am-not-aware.' Since then I have witnessed a great many of the most memorable races ever run, and have had at least a bowing acquaintance with some of the most notable race horses, English, French, Austro-Hungarian, German, American, and others, that ever came to the post. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 239. Chapters: English Racing Colony at Chantilly, French Horse Racing Hall of Fame, French Thoroughbred Classic Race winners, French horse trainers, French jockeys, French racehorse owners and breeders, French racehorses, Horse farms in France, Horse races in France, Horse racing venues in France, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Aga Khan IV, List of French flat horse races, Prix du Jockey Club, Grand Prix de Paris, Poule d'Essai des Poulains, Sea the Stars, Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, Prix de Diane, Prix du Cadran, Guy de Rothschild, Prix La Rochette, Arazi, Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris, Prix Royal-Oak, Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, Prix de la Foret, Prix Morny, Grand Prix de Deauville, Prix Lupin, Prix Ganay, Prix Noailles, Prix Kergorlay, Prix Vicomtesse Vigier, Prix Hocquart, Prix Vermeille, Prix d'Ispahan, Prix Gladiateur, Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, Prix du Conseil de Paris, Prix Daniel Wildenstein, Prix du Pin, Prix Greffulhe, Prix Chaudenay, Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil, Prix du Gros Chene, Prix du Prince d'Orange, Prix Robert Papin, Grand Prix de Vichy-Auvergne, Prix Eugene Adam, Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp, Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte, Prix de Conde, La Coupe, Prix du Petit Couvert, Prix d'Hedouville, A. Kingsley Macomber, Prix Maurice de Nieuil, Prix Vanteaux, Prix de Meautry, Prix de Guiche, Prix Exbury, Prix de Royaumont, Prix de Fontainebleau, Prix Jacques Le Marois, Prix Paul de Moussac, Criterium de Saint-Cloud, La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte, Joseph E. Widener, Prix d'Arenberg, Edouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, Prix Dollar, Prix Chloe, Prix Perth, Prix Jean Prat, Prix Daphnis, Prix de Barbeville, Prix de Seine-et-Oise, Prix d'Harcourt, Prix Penelope, Prix du Lys, Prix des Chenes, Prix La Force, Prix Maurice de Gheest, Prix de Flore, Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord, Prix Gontaut-Biron, Prix La Haye...

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