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Horse Racing

There are 5 Classic Horse Races in the English Calendar :
[The 1000 Guineas] : Run at Newmarket since 1814
One mile, for 3 year-old fillies.
[The 2000 Guineas] : Run at Newmarket since 1809
One mile, for 3 year-olds.
[The Derby] : Run at Epsom since 1780
One mile and about 4 furlongs, for 3 year-olds.
[The Oaks] : Run at Epsom since 1779
One mile and about 4 furlongs, for 3 year-old fillies.
[The St Leger] : Run at Doncaster since 1776
One mile and about 6 furlongs, for 3 year-olds.
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1804-1850
Sami Chifney : Genuine Genius
(1804)
'Druid' : Saddle and Sirloin
(1848)

1851-1900
"Druid' : Post and Paddock
(1856)
Silk and Scarlet
(1859)
William Day : The Racehorse in Training
(1880)
Joseph Osborne : The Horsebreeder's Handbook
(1881)
James Lupton : The Horse : As He Was, As He Is, and As He Ought to be
(1881)
William Day : Reminiscences
(1886)
William Day : The Horse : How to Breed and Rear Him
(1890)
R Black : The Jockey Club and Its Founders
(1891)
Racing and Steeplechasing
(Longmans 1892)
Bruce Lowe : Breeding Horses From the Figure System
(1895)
G J Cawthorn & R S Herod : Royal Ascot - It's History and Associations
(1900)

1901-1925
A E T Watson : The Racing World and It's Inhabitants
(1904)
A Nightingall : My Racing Adventures
(1907)
Sam Darling : Reminiscences
(1914)
J F Sloan : Tod Sloan By Himself
(1915)
J F Fairfax Blakeborough : Malton Memories and L'Anson Triumphs
(1925)

1926-1935
Squire Osbadeston : His Autobiography
(1926)
J S Fletcher : History of the St Leger Stakes
(1927)
J F Fairfax Blakeborough : The Analysis of the Turf
(1927)
Sykes of Sleamere
(1929)
Charles Morton : My Sixty Years of the Turf
(930)
T H Browne : History of the English Turf
(1931)
J F Fairfax Blakeborough : Turf Who's Who
(1932)
R C Lyle : Brown Jack
(1934)
J F Fairfax Blakeborough : Paddock Personalities
(1935)
Duke of Portland : Memoirs of Racing and Hunting
(1935)

1936-1950
Eric Rickman : On and Off the Racecourse
(1937)
S Donoghue : Donoghue Up
(1938)
R C Lyle : The Aga Khan's Horses
(1939)
T H Bird : Admirable Rous and the English Turf
(1939)
Harewood & Ricketts : Flat Racing
(1940)
R C Lyle : Royal Newmarket
(1945)

1951-1965
John Hislop: Steeplechasing
(1951 Hutchinson) - John Skeaping
Dick Francis : The Sport of Queens
(1957)
John Welsome : The Cheltenham Gold Cup
(1957)
R Mortimer : The Jockey Club
(1958)
C Smirke : Finishing Post
(1960)
John Hislop : Far From a Gentleman
(1960)
Jack Leach : Sods I have Cut on the Turf
(1961)

1966-1970
John Welcome : Fred Archer - His Life and Times
(1967)
Doug Smith : Five Times Champion
(1968)
F H Sasses : Themes on a Pipedream
(1969)
Clive Graham : Hyperion
(1969)
Michael Seth-Smith : Bred for the Purple - The History of the Monarchy and the Turf
(1969 Leslie Frewin)
John Welcome : Neck or Nothing - The Extraordinary Life and Times of Bob Sievier
(1970)
Jack Leach : A Rider on the Stand
(1970)
Richard Baerlain : Nijinsky
(1970)

After 1971
R Mortimer : The History of the Derby Stakes
(1973)
Michael Seth-Smith : Steve : The Life and Times of Steve Donoghue
(1973)
John Hislop : The Brigadier
(1973)
A Devonshire : Park Top : A Romance of the Turf
(1975)
R Mortimer : The Flat
(1979)
Michael Seth-Smith : A Classic Connection
(1983)
Richard Baerlain : Shergar
(1984)
Joe Mercer
(1988)


[The National Horseracing Museum is at 99 High Street, Newmarket in Suffolk]

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