Author: Mike Huggins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135264252
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book 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.