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Bogside Racecourse was a horse racing track situated near the town of Irvine, Scotland, on the banks of the River Irvine, about 14 miles from Ayr. The course opened in 1808, although races had been staged near Bogside before this. In 1636 many subscribers had donated a large sum of money to support annual race meetings.
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First held a one day race meeting: The Lenham and Mid Kent meeting, in 1848 on a course of barely 6 furlongs circumference. The final meeting took place on Friday 29 June 1860. [98] Leominster Racecourse [93] Herefordshire: England: not known: not known: Held meetings at the end of August: Lichfield Racecourse [75] Staffordshire: England: not ...
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The annual October meeting for 1793 was extended to six consecutive days and included the staging by the Caledonian Hunt of a prestigious King's Plate race of 100 guineas. Something of a "fiasco" occurred in 1803 when only three horses contested a four race meeting held over four days and each race was a walkover. In 1805 the first race was a ...
The local area has links to horse racing that date back to the time of Henry VIII, whose Privy Purse Accounts contain records of payments to Thomas Ogle, Master of Horse at Windsor, where there was a stud and stable inside the Castle grounds, and Signor Pollo, a trainer, charged the king 7s 2d for a horse bath there. By the time of Charles II ...
Folkestone Racecourse was a thoroughbred horse racing venue in southeast England, until it closed in 2012. It is located in Westenhanger, by junction 11 of the M20 motorway and about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Folkestone. The course remains closed and all running rail and steeplechase fences have been removed.