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Genius genuine / CHIFNEY Samuel, 1804
Genius Genuine. By Samuel Chifney of Newmarket. A Fine Part in riding a race, known only to the author. Why there are so few good runners, or why the Turf Horses degenerate. A guide to recover them to their strength and speed as well as to train horses for hard running and hunters and hacks for hard riding. To preserve their strength and their sinews from being so often destroyed, with reasons for horses changing in their running, likewise a full account of the Prince’s Horse, "Escape," running at Newmarket on the 20th and 21st days of October, 1791 ; with other interesting particulars / CHIFNEY Samuel
: London , Sold only for the Author, 232 Piccadilly, 1804
: 1 vol.
: VII-170 p.
: in-8°
Anglais

: Art / Essai

« Abuses that are gone abroad.
I am repeatedly told, by respectable people and from all quarters, that it is talked in their countries that Chifney lost intentionally upon His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales’s horse Escape, at Newmarket, on the 20 th of October 1791; and after Escape had pulled up on this said race to walk back to scale, that Chifney was laughing to the Prince of Wales because he had got Escape beat; and then, to suit their wicked construction, they said, and I find that it is sent out to the world, that the Prince won such an immense sum of money upon Escape the following day; and that the Prince gives Chifney two hundred guineas a year for his life after his losing this said race with Escape. » Présentation de l’éditeur (1804)

« London, 1804 ; 1871. » Huth (1887)

« Il semble qu’il y ai eu une première édition financée également à compte d’auteur en 1795. (D’après le Dictionary of National Biography, 1885) » Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval