Horseracing [ Games & Sports ]
… The race week offered a wide range of ancillary attractions, from assemblies, theatres, balls, eating and drinking, to cock fighting or pugilism. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés Elite Gambling Horseracing Sports Women Horse … 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 enthusiastic about English racing, but both William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, and the future King George IV indulged in and promoted the sport. 3 . Mike Huggins, Horse Racing and British Society in the Long …
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