Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… 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 Stuarts’ love of the sport. Over the 1700s horse racing became by far the best-organized, … (London: Osborn et all, 1742), p.78-9. By 1739 a contemporary racing calendar listed a network of 138 separate race meetings, with others too low in status to note. 7 Governmental anxieties about the supposed excessive increase of horse …
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