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Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… of several subsequent racing clubs. 5 Racing gained support from King William, and then Queen Anne, who founded Ascot . The Germanic Georges were less enthusiastic about English racing, but both William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, …
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… regularly (although, unlike Charles, he was not a horseman). Queen 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 …
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