Mr. Darley's Arabian : high life, low life, sporting life : a history of racing in twenty-five horses
by McGrath, Christopher (Author)
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"In 1704 a bankrupt English merchant sent home the colt he had bought from Bedouin tribesmen near the ruins of Palmyra. Thomas Darley hoped this horse might be the ticket to a new life back in Yorkshire. But he turned out to be far more than that, and although Mr. Darley's Arabian never ran a race,... Full description