Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914

By Mike Huggins

Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914 - Mike Huggins
  • Release Date: 2014-06-03
  • Genre: Sports & Outdoors

Description

2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year

This volume studies the formative period of racing between 1790 and 1914. This was a time when, despite the opposition of a respectable minority, attendance at horse races, betting on horses, or reading about racing increasingly became central leisure activities of much of British society.