Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… urban social space, involving both public and private sociability, attracting racehorse owners and gamblers; men and women; the country and towns-folk; and elite, middling and proletariat groups. The race ground offered a liminal space … and drinking, to cock fighting or pugilism. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés Elite Gambling Horseracing Sports Women Horse racing had a prominent place amongst the new forms of human sociability and fields of practice developing in … exercising on the course might be watched and assessed. Elegant assembly rooms opened for the week, allowing men and women of prosperous and socially-ambitious mercantile and professional families to mix with the landed elite. Innkeepers, …
Elite | Gambling | Horseracing | Sports | Women
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