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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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(18,000 in 1991) Town in Suffolk which is the historic centre of English racing and the home of the *Jockey Club. Horses have been raced here since the time of *James I, but it was the personal involvement of *Charles II which gave Newmarket its pre-eminence. Rowley Mile, the older of the two courses on Newmarket Heath, is named after the king, whose nickname was Old Rowley (itself deriving, appropriately, from the name of a favourite horse). On it are run the two first Classics of the season, the *1,000 Guineas and the *2,000 Guineas, at the spring meeting in late April.
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The autumn meeting, also on the Rowley Mile, has two famous handicap races, the Cambridgeshire and the Cesarewitch. The summer meeting is on the July Course. The National Stud was established at Newmarket in 1967; and in 1983 the National Horseracing Museum was opened in the Regency Subscription Rooms on the High Street.
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