The Sport of Queens

by Dick Francis

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  First published December 1957

  Second impression December 1957

  Third impression January 1958

  Revised edition 1968

  Second impression August 1971

  Second revised edition 1974

  Third revised edition 1982

  Fourth revised edition 1988

  © 1957, 1968, 1974, 1982, 1988 by Dick Francis

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  ISBN: 978-0-14-194224-7

  * A breast-plate can be seen on Devon Loch in the frontispiece, and a breast-girth on horse 47 facing 72.