Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… predominantly Protestant Whig racing focus for the newly-founded Jockey Club, the earliest of several subsequent racing clubs. 5 Racing gained support from King William, and then Queen Anne, who founded Ascot. The Germanic Georges were less … Ante-post betting on major races and high-stakes matches grew over time, encouraged by the elite associability of London clubs, coffee houses or betting houses like Tattersall’s Turf Tavern, and from late in the century, the emergence of …
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