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English: The Rowley Mile, Newmarket Racecourse. Newmarket has been the centre of the Sport of Kings for more than three and half centuries. The Rowley Mile is named after 'Old Rowley', King Charles II's favourite horse. This photo is taken near the finish, looking back down the course.
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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.
It covers a 5-acre site on Palace Street in the centre of the town, having previously been housed in the Jockey Club Rooms on Newmarket High Street. Together with the British Sporting Art Trust and Retraining of Racehorses it is part of the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art which was opened by Elizabeth II in 2016.
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.
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Nell Gwyn Stakes; Group 3 race: Location: Rowley Mile Newmarket, England: Inaugurated: 1961: Race type: Flat / Thoroughbred: Sponsor: Lanwades Stud: Website ...
Until 2013 it was run in early October and in 2014 it was transferred to Newmarket to become part of the "Future Champions Day" fixture in mid-October. [ 1 ] The present system of race grading was introduced in 1971, and the Cornwallis Stakes was classed at Group 3 level.