Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… matches made between two wealthy owners. Such wagers potentially combined racing rivalries, power politics, social rank, informed sociability, and the social display of the match-maker’s prowess, wealth, status and masculinity, as he … and bets’, trying to ‘circumvent one another and […] pick one another’s pockets […] to the indelible shame of men of rank and quality’. 6 6 . Daniel Defoe, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain 3rd Edition (London: Osborn et …
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