… of cricket and horse-racing. Practices > Associational culture Places > Clubs & Societies Keywords Colonies Gambling Gaming Horseracing Rules Sports Cricket While the game of cricket had become popular in the first half of the eighteenth … a History of Racing and Art on Newmarket Heath . (London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2016). … Colonies … Gambling … Gaming … Horseracing … Rules … Sports … Sporting clubs …
… 7 . John Cheny, A Historical List of All Horse Matches Run and All Plates and Prizes Run For (London: Cheny, 1739) 8 . Gaming Act on horseracing 13 Geo. 2, ch. 19 (1740) Even Newmarket struggled in the 1740s, but it steadily revived as a …