The Story Of Horse Racing Leading Up To 1840

Doubtless Henry VIII had his own perspectives in regards to what constituted the 'sport of kings'; nonetheless it is horse racing that commonly carries this appellation. Yet to proffer that racing was the privilege of a prime is wrong: it was actually the sport of all, a common interest of peer and peasant, of lord and labourer. Indeed, although William IV himself had no great enthusiasm for the turf- he was "bored to death at Ascot" — he recognized its worth as a social institution: Horse racing emerged naturally out of an

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