Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… 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 'Bay Bolton' defeating the Duke of Somerset's Grey 'Windham' (Old Wyndham) … 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 sociability and cultural … annual race week created an important urban social space, involving both public and private sociability, attracting racehorse owners and gamblers; men and women; the country and towns-folk; and elite, middling and proletariat groups. The …
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