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Today, Tattersalls is the leading bloodstock auctioneer in Europe, selling 10,000 horses a year.It still prices horses in guineas (originally 21 shillings and now one pound and five pence), in accordance with horse-racing tradition.
The Somerville Tattersall Stakes, currently run as the Tattersalls Stakes, is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to two-year-old colts and geldings. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 7 furlongs (1,408 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late September.
The July Stakes is currently held on the opening day of Newmarket's three-day July Festival meeting. The equivalent race for fillies is the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes . Records
Racing in Newmarket was recorded in the time of James I. The racecourse itself was founded in 1636. [2] Around 1665, Charles II inaugurated the Newmarket Town Plate and in 1671 became the first and only reigning monarch to ride a winner. [2] King Charles was known to attend races on Newmarket Heath with his brother, the future James II.
The Jockey Club has long been thought to have been founded in 1750 – a year recognised by the club itself in its own records. Some claim it was created earlier, in the 1720s, [2] while others suggest it may have existed in the first decade of the century. [3]
The Tattersalls Gold Cup is a Group 1 flat horse race in Ireland open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older. It is run at the Curragh over a distance of 1 mile, 2 furlongs and 110 yards (2,112 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in May.
Newmarket is a market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, 14 miles west of Bury St Edmunds and 14 miles northeast of Cambridge. In 2021, it had a population of 16,772. It is a global centre for thoroughbred horse racing, [2] racehorse training, [3] breeding, and horse health.
The prizes for the contest include a box of famed Powter’s Newmarket sausages. [3] The 2012 edition of the race, the 342nd Town Plate, was won by amateur jockey, Clare Twemlow, on a horse called Raifteiri. [4] In 2011, the 341st Town Plate was won by Newmarket trainer and town councillor John Berry, riding his own horse Kadouchski. [5]