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Author’s NoteThe first race recorded on Newmarket Heath was in 1622, but it was not until the Restoration in 1660 that Newmarket became the headquarters of British racing.
King Charles II spent a great deal of time in Newmarket and there was a tunnel leading from his Palace (pulled down in Queen Victoria’s reign) to Nell Gwynn’s house.
The King instituted the Town Place in 1664, but after his death the Race Meetings declined.
But the ‘Keeper of the Running Horses’ to William and Mary, Queen Anne, George I and George II ruled Newmarket with a rod of iron.
The Jockey Club was formed in Newmarket in 1752, by the well-known patrons of The Star & Garter in Pall Mall, began bit by bit, to acquire the Heath and rule the Turf.
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