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Lewes Races King’s Plate Trials at Lewes Downs 1783
The King’s Plate of one hundred pounds will be run at Lewes Downs Sussex on Thursday July 28 for horses six years old or younger carrying twelve stone in best of three heats. Entries open at Verrall’s Coffee House Lewes on July 27. A fifty pound plate follows on July 29 for horses five years old or younger never prize winners, with ten stone. On July 30 another fifty pound plate for five to ten year olds, with weights from nine to ten stone, entrants pay three guineas and two shillings sixpence to the clerk. Certificates of age and qualification required at entrance and races run per King’s Plate rules.
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Lewes
Lewes Downs
Sussex
Verrall's Cottee
Duke of Newcastle
de Grass
Verrall
Cotfee-house
Fevén Vonneis
Verrall’s
Canterbury
Bridge-Hill House
Duke of
Che
Llite
Cocarry
Heber
Warwick
Bhat
Brijlle
Sydale
Three Tuns Inn
C Co
Cewe
Ctiic
Wemelay
Taylor
Sillitton
West-Riding of
Yorkshire
Miss Bridges
Mr. Elen
Killand
Halitak
Hhr
Therton
Raftheld
Thurgoland
Silkston
N. B. Silkston
Barnfly
Wakeficks
Rotherham
Sheffield
Doncaster
Manchester
Lamae
Lord Milcombe
Blanford
Dorsetshire
Japan
Sainsbury
Greyhound
George
Shaftsbury
Pool
Wing’s Arms
Dorchester
Liambe
Danby Pickering
Gray’s Inn
Lecure
Honourable Society
Cambridge
J. Bentham
C. Bathurst
Fleet-Street
London
Ramsgace Pier
Isrz
Thanet
MaxGate
Kent
Sandwich
Deal
Dover
Rochester
Chatham
J. Newbery
W. Bristow
St. Paul’s Church Yard
Lyon
Margate
E. R.lowther
Hatton Garden
Croft’s