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Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… results, racing odds, and mentions of those attending, often provided by local ‘correspondents’, simultaneously fostered betting and sociability. This helped the sport to become part of a new leisure industry. Specialist annual calendars … elite sociability, and wagering on the course offered great opportunities. Much wagering took place around a so-called ‘betting post’, with known acquaintances, offering and accepting odds and amounts staked, noting them in memorandum books, and settling them at a later time. But regular owners and gamblers wanted to increase the size of the betting market. Plebeian groups of working-class ‘blacklegs’, racecourse gamblers often with carefully practised external …
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Ascot [ Games & Sports / Sports & Leisure ]
… (CRES 35/5, LR4/14/204, MPE 1/1077/5, MPE 1/1077/6, MPE 1/1077/7, MPE 1/1077/8). 4 . Mike Huggins, ‘Racing Culture, Betting and Sporting Proto-Modernity: the 1750 Newmarket Carriage Match’, Journal of Sport History (vol. 42, n° 3, 2015), … the Prince of Wales at Ascot Races. L’année suivante, en 1793, George Slingsby construisit une nouvelle tribune, la Old Betting Stand et les travaux de construction du Royal Stand se poursuivirent jusqu’en 1845. À compter de 1822, ceux-ci …
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