Races at Lilley Hoo and Burton Qutwoods Plate and Purse Contests
A sequence of racing dates at Lilley Hoo Hertfordshire and Burton Qutwoods Staffordshire noting plates and purses. Lilley Hoo events on Sept 24 and 25 offer plates with 10 and 12 stone allowances and entrance fees. entries due seven days prior at Jonathan Whiting’s house. Burton Qutwoods hosts a 10 Guinea purse for Galloways under 14 hands and a 76 Guinea purse with 10 stone carriage, with entry and weight rules and public display requirements at the Towne Hall.
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Lilley Hoo
Hertfordshire
Asdon Thurday
Jonathan Whiting
Lilley
Burton Qutwoods
Burton Upon Trent
Stafford
Borton
News from Amsterdam and Europe on Septembers
London posts report from Holland and France dated Sept. 6 9. The Amsterdam Gazette Sept. 13 notes English victory over the Spanish fleet and Cardinal Alberoni's rebuke to Bing with Sicilian stakes. Vienna accounts claim Turks pressuring Poland and Russian forces near Pruth while Rhinsfels is evacuated to Rothenburg. Havibreed reports Ruffian ships seen off Mecklenburg with four warships and twenty to thirty frigates.
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London
Holland
France
Amsterdam
Genoa
Spain
Alberoni
Bing
Great Britain
Collonel Stanhope
Amsterdam Courant
Vienna
Poland
Pruth
Hesfe Caffel
Rhinsfels
Rothenburg
Mecklemburg
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Berington
Bloomsbury
Averphem
Ona