Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… approaches of historical animal studies. 4 Newmarket was a gravitational centre of royal political power and courtly leisure following the Restoration of Charles II, and by the early 1700s a predominantly Protestant Whig racing focus for … three-year-olds ran, giving 1,075 guineas to the winning owner. From the 1760s many county towns like York, residential leisure towns such as Lewes or Stamford, and some market towns like Knutsford or Hexham, often enjoying periods of urban … gentry society moved from London or town houses to enjoy county estate life and a nearby urban race meeting’s multiple leisure attractions. Towns were well aware that a race week offered potential profit as well as recreation and diversion …
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