Horse RacingBiblio.com
HORSE RACING IN THE MIDDLE EASTBiblio.com
Racing in Mesopotamia from February 21st 1918 to January 17th 1919.
1919182301Baghdad: Printed at the Government Press 1919. First edition otherwise untraced giving information on winners runners results and prize money. In the wake of Baghdad's capture in 1917 British personnel immediately began developing the infrastructure of colonial sport including a race course tennis courts and a cricket pitch encouraged by General Maude's own love of the turf. The first listed meet the Akab Spring Races was held almost a year after the fall of the city White Stockings and Army Pattern triumphing in the opening two Desert Plate and Akab Stakes. An equestrian club was formally established in Baghdad in 1920. Small octavo. Original buff wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in black. Spine worn covers and first and last page foxed front wrapper lifting away torn at staples: a very good copy of a fragile booklet. unknown
Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni700,00 £GB≈ 799,26 €
