2-889-316 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Doncaster Races - the Road to the Course, 1850. Horse racing in Yorkshire. 'The Meeting attracted an immense and very respectable assemblage, and went off with brilliant success...several special and ordinary trains arrived, all of them being more or less overdue...The continued fineness of the weather, and a vast influx of visitors from the manufacturing districts, gave an eclat to the commencement of the races. The assemblage on the course...was unusually numerous - a clear proof that the stewards, in strengthening the list with the Great Yorkshire Handicap exercised a wise discretion. Of late years, the first day has been the least, attractive. The Grand Stand was patronised by a large and fashionable company, and the enclosure was densely crowded by men of business from all the sporting districts'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.