Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… 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 week offered a wide range of … the Stuarts’ love of the sport. Over the 1700s horse racing became by far the best-organized, best-supported, most high-status, best-publicized and increasingly commercial sporting activity across England and parts of Scotland and Wales. In … English Breed”: the Racehorse as Cultural Icon’ in Karen Raber and Treva Tucker (ed.), The Culture of the Horse: Status, Discipline, and Identity in the Early Modern World (New-York: Palgrave, 2004), p.245-72; Donna Landry, Noble …
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