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Horse Racing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Democratic Derby Days, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1230
Scope and Contents

Photograph from the Daily Mirror newspaper from June 4, 1919, entitled, 'Democratic Derby Days of Yore: Under the Spell of the Great National Sporting Festival All Class Distinctions Vanish' and is a collage of various people eating and watching the horse races.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Point-To-Point Races at Oxford, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1998
Scope and Contents

Photograph from the 4 March, 1922 edition of the Daily Mirror showing the racehorses taking 'the first fence in the New College Grind and Old Members' Race' at Oxford.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Suffragette at the Derby, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1949
Scope and Contents

Photograph from the Daily Mirror, 4 June 1919, of the suffragette, Emily Davison knocked down by George V's horse, Anmer during the Epsom Derby, Tattenham Course.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Woman Owner's Victory, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1993
Scope and Contents

Photograph from the 14 October, 1920 edition of the Daily Mirror entitled, "Woman Owner's Victory" shows the racehorse, "Bracket" ridden by "Steve" Donaghue during the race. The horse won the Cesarwitch race for its owner, Mrs. G. Robinson.

Dates: 1870s-1930s