Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… shame of men of rank and quality’. 6 6 . Daniel Defoe, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain 3rd Edition (London: Osborn et all, 1742), p.78-9. By 1739 a contemporary racing calendar listed a network of 138 separate race … offered such levels. 7 . John Cheny, A Historical List of All Horse Matches Run and All Plates and Prizes Run For (London: Cheny, 1739) 8 . Gaming Act on horseracing 13 Geo. 2, ch. 19 (1740) Even Newmarket struggled in the 1740s, but it … Such meetings took place in the period from March to October, when fashionable nobility and gentry society moved from London or town houses to enjoy county estate life and a nearby urban race meeting’s multiple leisure attractions. Towns …
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