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Description: | One of the most famous horse races of the world, the first 'Derby' took place on 4th May 1780. The title of the race was decided after the Earl of Derby and Sir Charles Bunbury, a leading racing figure of the day and friend of the Earl's, flipped a coin. So began the inaugural running of the Derby which, had the coin fallen the other way, might have been the 'Bunbury'! Even in the days when no form of public transport was available, flocks of people from all over South-East England would come together on Epsom Downs to attend the races, in the 1820s crowds of up to 80,000 were reported. Today the figure reaches up to 90,000 and is as much a social as a sporting event. This tin attempts to capture the excitement of this famous race. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | stand event horse recreation animal | Temporal: | start=1961-01-01; end=1963-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Huntley, Boorne & Stevens | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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