Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… sport, opens a window into wider sociability and cultural life. The 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 race ground offered a liminal space encouraging social mixing and status display, commercial opportunities and political-linked intercourse. The race … circumstances, could mean failure to raise sufficient money. The r egular , ever-expanding and often uninhibited newspaper reports of urban races in the national and regional press, soon including initial advertising, racehorse …
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