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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 08, 1736
Page
3
The Ringwood racing dates outline three purses and events on Thursday Friday and Saturday. A twenty guinea purse for horses never winning a King's plate, a ten pound purse for Galloways, and a five pound purse for ponies, with entry and stake rules, plus social amusements at Ringwood Crown Inn and the Hill.
Ludlow in Shropshire hosts three August race days on the Old Field Course. August 25 offers a purse of fifty guineas for horses never winning a King's Plate, with entries due August 18. August 26 features a Twenty Pounds Plate for hunters. August 27 a Thirty Pounds Plate for any horse. Entry and qualification rules apply, with various entrance fees and conditions to discourage unqualified entries.
Hampstead invites sportsmen to a week of horse racing with multiple purses. July events feature a Fifteen Pound Silver Cup for horses under twenty guineas value, a Ten Guinea purse for smaller galloways, a Five Guinea purse for ponies, and a Twelve Guinea gentlemen’s purse. Each day sets entry fees, weight allowances, and required measurings, with venues at the Red Lion Hampstead and adjacent inns.
A strong-built bay mare about 14 hands high with a fall scar on her forehead and minor facial marks has been taken from Sevenoaks Kent. The mare walks, trots, and gallops well and is about three years old. Reward of one guinea and charges paid offered to the rightful finder who returns the horse to Sir Marion Lambard or to Mr. John Chaffey at the White Horse in the Haymarket.
A bay mare of mixed coach breed, 14? hands high, with star and stripe, gaunt belly, greased four legs and a scar near the navel, was stolen from Mr. Thomas Palfrey’s stable at the Golden Lyon in Brecon on a June fair day. A guinea reward plus reasonable charges are offered for recovery via Palfrey or Edwards at Daniel’s Coffee-house in Fleet Street, London.
Notices describe two black two year old fillies with marks and limbs, five black colts with white feet and tails, all branded and trimmed, missing from Henry Kent’s pasture near St Ives. Rewards offered for return and for discovery of those who damaged a sluice at Park-Gut causing oats flooding near Lewes.
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