Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… and Other Ladies', Tate, collection Marylebone Cricket Club, T03031, 1779. Image Peter Tillemans, 'The Round Course at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, Preparing for the King's Plate', Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon … century. It became an organised sport during the reign of James I. The king paid frequent visits to the village of Newmarket because he enjoyed hunting and hawking ; his court, in particular its Scottish members, initiated races in Newmarket. Later, races developed elsewhere in the country as they provided good testing events for the breed of horses. …
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