HORSE-RACING. – John CHENY. An Historical List of All Horse-Matches Run, And of all Plates and Prizes Run For In England and Wales (of the value of Ten Pounds or upwards) in 1731. London: Printed in the Year 1731. 12mo (165 x 89mm.) Woodcut initial and head-piece, 18pp. ‘List of Subscribers’ and 3pp. ‘Alphabetical List of Places of Sport mention’d in the forgoing Book’ to rear. (Minor marginal loss to title, damp-staining to C4, marginal spotting to I4.) Contemporary calf, four later morocco lettering pieces to spine, t.e.g. (hinges weakened, extremities rubbed). Note: scarce. John Cheney published his first ‘Historical List’ of the racing calendar in 1727. It cost subscriber’s five shillings and was to appear ‘annually, in the midst of Winter’ and so will be ‘an agreeable Amusement in that dull unactive Season, rend[e]ring Gentlemen capable, even in their Chambers, of diverting themselves with a Prospect, as it were, of the Sport of each past Year’.