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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 05, 1764
Page
2
Racing notices in Hertfordshire outline three days of horse matches from September 12 to 14. Subscribers may enter Hunters Plate, free plates, and other races with weight orders, fees, and entry points at Red Lion Royston. prizes total fifty pounds per event.
Race week at Shrewsbury on September 9 10 and 13 offers purses from fifty to sixty pounds for four to six year old horses mares and geldings never winning above fifty pounds. Conditions include entry fees two guineas per horse prizes to winners second heat winners and disputes settled by subscribers. A new turf course near the town with stables and water provided.
Stratford on Avon hosts two days of horse racing with purses totaling fifty pounds each. August 21 features races for horses under and over weights with entry rules, subscriptions, and penalties. August 22 offers the Town Plate for horses never winning more than fifty pounds, with conditions on ages, weights, entries, and fees. Peterborough races renewal notes.
Auction notices advertise the sale of a mare named Dizzy with foal and a three-year-old colt from the same stock, plus two young horses, and a large parcel of India Company warehoused rum and brandy for export or home sale. Banbury properties and cottages are offered with details on layout, outbuildings, and rental, with notices to creditors and tenants.
In London yesterday their Majesties departed for Richmond and will return tomorrow. Prince William and Prince Henry visited their Hampsteads pavilion apartments for the summer, while Lord and Lady Bute hosted others at Sion House. Sir James Lowther and Lady Mary Lowther left Berkeley Square for Aix la Chapelle to drink spa waters for his health. The King of France reportedly fell in humming on the 27th but suffered only a light contusion and rode back to assist at Cordeliers. Capt Forbes, Wilkes’s rival, remains in the Portguese service seeking favor after several frigates.
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