Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Eclipse O'k?elly: Being a Complete History So Far as Is Known of That Celebrated English Thoroughbred Eclipse (1764-1789) Of His Breeder the Duke of Cumberland of His Subsequent Owners William Wildman Dennis O'kelly Andrew O'kelly Now for the First Time Set Forth From
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century a roystering party at a country house founded two races, and named them gratefully after their host and his house - the 'derby' and the 'oaks.' Seldom has a carouse had a more permanent effect.
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