Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The Bookmaker and his Client outside the Ram Inn, Newmarket’, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.327, undated. Image John Wootton's Horse Race at Newmarket (The Duke of Bolton's … (Old Wyndham) at Newmarket on either 12th November 1712 or 4th April 1713 (1713). National Trust/Petworth/Lord Egremont/ArtUK/PCF. Abstract Racing, Britain’s first proto-modern, widely-followed national sport, opens a window into wider … already existed alongside private races on local moors, downs or floodplains. 1 Meeting numbers grew with the Stuarts’ love of the sport. Over the 1700s horse racing became by far the best-organized, best-supported, most high-status, …
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