MADSEN, Juel, & Edmund Toeg (illus.).

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Celebrities of the Shanghai Turf. First edition, presenting portraits of the many colourful owners and riders who graced the turf in interwar Shanghai. Copies of this rare publication are held only by the Huntington, Wolfsonian-FIU, St Olaf College, Australia National University, and Royal Danish Library.Among the expatriate equestrians are G. H. Stitt, the chairman of the Shanghai Race Club and a senior manager at HSBC, A. W. Burkill, the club's head steward, and Billy Coutts, one of the founders of the Shanghai Ladies' Paper Hunt Club. The champion steed Bydand is one of two horses honoured with inclusion.

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