… Cumberland, and the future King George IV indulged in and promoted the sport. 3 . Mike Huggins, Horse Racing and British Society in the Long Eighteenth Century (Rochester, N.-Y.: Boydell Press, 2018) 4 . Richard Nash, ‘”Honest English Breed”: … to four days racing. Such meetings took place in the period from March to October, when fashionable nobility and gentry society moved from London or town houses to enjoy county estate life and a nearby urban race meeting’s multiple leisure … and provided racing news. 9 . C.P. Lewis, ‘John Chapman’s Maps of Newmarket’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (80, 1991), p.68-78. Race meetings were important social gatherings. The carnivalesque course atmosphere, …