Irish racing calendar : containing an account of the plates, matches, and sweepstakes, run for in Ireland, in the year ... By Pat. Sharkey, proprietor of the Racing Calendar.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Sharkey, Pat, compiler.

Turf Club (Dublin, Ireland)

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race horses--Ireland--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Race horses.

Horse racing--Ireland--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Horse racing.

Ireland.

Genre:

Periodicals -- Ireland -- 18th century.

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

volumes : tables ; 16 cm (12⁰)

Annual

Volume the first. [April- Oct. 1790]-

Other Title:

The Irish racing calendar

Place of Publication:

Dublin [Ireland] : printed by J. Whitworth, no. 14, Exchange-street, and sold for the proprietor at said place, and at no 19, Anglesea Street, MDCC.XCI. [between 1790 and 1799]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

"Together with an abstract of all the matches, sweepstakes, &c. no made, to be run at the Curragh, from the first sprint meeting, ... to the year ... "

Title, followed by date, repeated as caption at head of first monthly racing calendar.

Imprints include year of publication in roman.

With a list of subscribers in each early volume.

Each volume includes such general information as: a table of weights for handicapping, the rules of the Turf-Club, jockey's colors, a list of the current year's winners, and descriptions of stallions currently standing; with monthly calendars of all Irish race meetings and results for the current season, and calendars of future races for two or three years.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.

Volumes lack chronological designation; dated from months and year of the racing season.

With vol. no. added to direction line of each monthly calendar.

Finding Aid/Index:

Owners and their horses.

Cited in:

Ward, W.S Index of serials, p. 76

English Short Title Catalog, P6001.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.