… The race week offered a wide range of ancillary attractions, from assemblies, theatres, balls, eating and drinking, to cock fighting or pugilism. Practices > Games & Sports Keywords Elite Gambling Horseracing Sports Women Horse … focus for the newly-founded Jockey Club, the earliest 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, and the future King George IV indulged in and promoted the sport. 3 . Mike Huggins, Horse Racing and British Society in the Long …