No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 319pp.

A study of racehorse breeding starting with the importation of the first Arab and Barb stallions from the East. The author writes the history of the development and achievements of studs in the major breeding countries - Britain, Ireland, USA and France - with first-hand accounts of their work.