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[GOODWOOD RACES] 15 race cards

A collection of antique race cards from Goodwood Races. The cards are for the following Race Days.

July 31^st 1835,

August 3^rd 1837,

August 3^rd 1838,

July 31^st 1839,

July 28^th 1842, includes the Goodwood cup, won by Charles the Twelfth,

July 25^th1843,

July 28^th 1843,

July 30^th 1844,

August 2^nd 1844,

July 31^st 1849,

August 1^st 1850 includes the Goodwood Cup, won by Canezou,

July 29^th 1858 includes the Goodwood Cup, won by Saunterer),

August 2^nd 1861,

July 25^th 1871,

July 30^th 1869.

The cards sizes vary over time but all are a single piece of card printed on both sides with details of the runners and their colours at the races of the day. The earliest cards are particularly interesting in that they record the dominance of one particular horse owner in the sport, Lord George Bentick. It was Bentick who commissioned the first ever horsebox to take his horse, Elis, from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1936 St Leger.

Condition MIXED Fair/Good: creases; some staining and soiling/grubbiness; pencil markings; general age discolouration; abrasion; one card has pieces cut from the top and bottom edges.