Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… Inn, Newmarket’, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.327, undated. Image John Wootton's Horse Race at Newmarket (The Duke of Bolton's 'Bay Bolton' defeating the Duke of Somerset's Grey 'Windham' (Old Wyndham) at … first proto-modern, widely-followed national 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 … sociability and fields of practice developing in the long eighteenth century. From the 1500s onwards some town-organised meetings already existed alongside private races on local moors, downs or floodplains. 1 Meeting numbers grew with the …
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