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Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… best-organized, best-supported, most high-status, best-publicized and increasingly commercial sporting activity across England and parts of Scotland and Wales. In many towns the ‘Race Week’ became a destination event in the annual … Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) 5 . Richard Nash, ‘The Sport of Kingmakers: Horse Racing in Late Stuart England’, International journal of the History of Sport (37, 3, 2020), p.304-322. At Newmarket the Jockey Club … Urban Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) Edwards, Peter, Horses and the Aristocratic Lifestyle in Early Modern England ( Rochester, N.-Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2018) Huggins, Mike, Horse Racing and British Society in the Long …
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… played around the country with different rules. From the second half of the eighteenth century, cricket grew throughout England being recorded, according to Bowen, in thirty-one counties by the end of the century. The first Laws were drawn … in January 1765. Horse-racing While horse-racing had been in existence for a long time, it really started to develop in England in the seventeenth century. It became an organised sport during the reign of James I. The king paid frequent … Anne visited Newmarket frequently, and founded Royal Ascot in 1711, on the edge of Windsor Great Park. Racing spread in England in the first half of the eighteenth century and races were held everywhere, thus calling for rules and …
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