The Sport of Kings
Subtitle: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780521808774
Subjects: Horse racing; Social & cultural anthropology; Thoroughbred horse; Horses - General; Breeding; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Newmarket; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Anthropology - General; England; Race horses
First sentence: This book does not concern itself with identifying the first ever English horse-race or with tracing the ancient history of racing generally.