Races Collection (page 4)

Voltigeur, the Winner of the Derby Stakes, 1850, (1850). Creator: Smyth
Voltigeur, the Winner of the Derby Stakes, 1850, (1850). Epsom horse races in Surrey. Voltigeur, nominally at 25 to 1, wins by a length, with Pitsford next him!'

Doncaster Races - the Road to the Course, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Doncaster Races - the Road to the Course, 1850. Horse racing in Yorkshire. The Meeting attracted an immense and very respectable assemblage

Nimroud Sculptures...Flight of an Arab Mounted upon a Camel, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Nimroud Sculptures, just received at the British Museum - Flight of an Arab Mounted upon a Camel, 1850. Engraving of...a fine, though unfortunately broken slab

Epsom Spring Meeting...Preparing to Start for the Great Metropolitan Stakes, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Epsom Spring Meeting - Sketch on the Downs - Preparing to Start for the Great Metropolitan Stakes, 1850. Horseracing in Surrey

The Political Handicap, from Puck, n.d. Creator: Joseph Keppler
The Political Handicap, from Puck, n.d

The Royal Hunt Cup, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Royal Hunt Cup, 1850. Horseracing trophy...manufactured by Messrs. Hunt and Roskill, of New Bond-street, after the design and model of Mr

Wanota, Winner of the Ascot Stakes, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Wanota, Winner of the Ascot Stakes, 1850. Racehorse owned by Lord Clifden and ridden by Job Marson. The Ascot Stakes - a sporting handicap, won by Wanota - was, probably, a race thrown away

Rhedycina, Winner of the Oaks Stakes, at Epsom, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Rhedycina, Winner of the Oaks Stakes, at Epsom, [in Surrey] 1850. Racehorse and jockey: "Rhedycina" was bred by Mr

The annual regatta of the Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club, recently held at Glasgow, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The annual regatta of the Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club, recently held at Glasgow, 1862. This regatta - the "Scottish Henley" - which came off at Glasgow, on Thursday and Friday

The Doncaster Cup, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Doncaster Cup, 1862. This piece of plate, won last week by Tim Whiffler, was modelled by Mr. Henry Hale, and manufactured by Messrs. London and Ryder, of New Bond-street

Volunteer fete at Crown, Point, near Norwich: - the Sports, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Volunteer fete given by Mr. Harvey, the High Sheriff of Norfolk, at Crown Point, near Norwich: the Sports, 1862....the sports...comprised a hurdle-race for mounted volunteers

Jonathas, winner of the First Fontainebleau Stakes, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Jonathas, winner of the First Fontainebleau Stakes, 1862. Portrait of the winner of the first Fontainebleau Stakes, Jonathas (by Sting out of Deerchase), a fine brown horse

Color-Types of the Races of Men, British Association scale (colour litho)
2800895 Color-Types of the Races of Men, British Association scale (colour litho) by American School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Color-Types of the Races of Men)

Dame Edna Everage (aka Barry Humphries) trying on her new hat for Ascot. The hat has an Australian motif including the Sydney Opera House and a shark. 14th June 1976

Launcelot and Maroon, c1840s, (1911). Launcelot (1837-1861) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the classic St Leger Stakes in 1840

Comparison of British & German skull shapes, WW1
Long-head versus short-head: Opposite types of humanity which are fighting for opposite ideals. A diagram to demonstrate the inherent differences in skull shapes between the British

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A Woman of the Tonga Islands (b / w photo)
5990372 A Woman of the Tonga Islands (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A Woman of the Tonga Islands. Living Races of Mankind (Hutchinson, c 1910)

Major Fruity Metcalfe by Hynes
Edward Dudley Metcalfe MVO MC (16 January 1887 18 November 1957), known as Fruity Metcalfe, close friend and equerry of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor

King Edward VIII & Mrs Simpson at Royal Ascot, 1936
King Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, pictured with his future wife, Wallis Simpson, at Royal Ascot in June 1936. Date: 1936

June 1949 - Buckfastleigh Races

School Sports Day, 22nd August 1935

Horse Racing at Redcar. Lester Piggott at the Zetland Gold Cup Day. 31st May 1993

Stockton Racecourse (September 1855 - 16 June 1981), also known as Teesside Park. 13th April 1971

Stock Car Racing: Stock car racing taking place at Brafield, Northamptonshire. General Shots during some of the races. September 1973. P005815

North American P-51C-10-NT Mustang N1202 Houstonian (msn 111-29080, formerly 44-10947), with race number 60. One of three owned by Oil Tycoon Glenn McArthy

United States Air Force - Convair B-36D Peacemaker 44-92065
United States Air Force - Convair B-36D-45-CF Featherweight Configuration II Peacemaker 44-92065 (msn 62), of the 326th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd Bombardment Wing, from Fairchild AFB, Spokane, WA

Seversky SEV-S2 NX70Y (msn 43). Alexander de Seversky modified a P-35 for the National Air Races. Powered by a 950hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp Sc

LeVier Cosmic Wind G-ARUL Ballerina
After failing to win races in the US, LeVier Cosmic Wind G-ARUL Ballerina, was exported to the UK, where it performed well, winning the 1964 Kings cup Air Race at Shoreham on 1 August 1964

RACING GOLDEN EAGLE DAY COLOUR
Australian actor Paul Pauly Fenech is seen during Golden Eagle Day at at Rosehill Gardens in Sydney, Saturday, November 2, 2019. (aP Image/Bianca De Marchi)

Trotting race at the Hipodromo in Sant Lluis, Mahon Menorca
A horse waits for its next trotting race at the Hipodromo in Sant Lluis, Mahon Menorca, Spain. It appears to be listening to a conversation between two men

Bookies at dog racing, Walthamstow
Bookies light cigars as they take bets from punters at Walthamstow during an evening dog race. The race track closed in 2008 Date: 2000

The Princes First Derby, 1896: His Royal Highness leading Persimmon, (1901). Creator: Unknown
The Princes First Derby, 1896: His Royal Highness leading Persimmon into the weighing enclosure at Epsom after the race, (1901). The Prince of Wales leads his horse as spectators cheer

Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Stampede - Chuckwagon Race
Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Stampede - a big crash during a Chuckwagon Race. Chuckwagon racing is an equestrian rodeo sport in which drivers in a chuckwagon led by a team of Thoroughbred horses race

Race for the Great St. Leger Stakes, 1836. Approbation - Off in good Style, (1837). Jockeys and their horses taking part in the St Leger Stakes flat horse race at Doncaster

Mestizo, mixed birth from Cambuso Chinese and Loba Indian, 18th century Mexican painting in the Museum of America in Madrid

Castas, from castizo and mestiza: chamizo (Mixed races in Spanish America). Family around the fathers job, as a twister or cigar maker, who rolls cigars in a tray

Minoru (Derby and 2000 Guineas winner), 1909 (1938). Artist: WW Rouch
Minoru (Derby and 2000 Guineas winner), 1909 (1938). Minoru pictured with jockey Herbert Jones on board. Also present are the horses owner, King Edward VII, Lord Marcus Beresford

Worcester Racecourse early 1900s

Chester Racecourse early 1900s

Chester Races in 1899

Ladies at the Races
Illustration of a fashionable lady showing off at a race meeting. Artist: Anon. Date: 1920s

Torquay races horse racing

Spectators at Torquay Races, early 1900s

WW2 - Paddy Finds A Family
A WW2 short story illustration which shows a mother and child searching the wreckage of a home that has been devastated by an enemy air raid, a warden helps them, the child races towards a poor dog

Ship's bell trophy won in 1934 in motor yacht race
MOTOR YACHTING: Superb ship's bell trophy owned by Sir Roy Fedden (1885?1973), a leading aero and motor car designer. It was won by Dolphin II in 1934 for South Coast power boat races organised

Poster, Samuel Cody, Velodrome d'Hiver, Paris
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: Extremely rare promotional poster for Cody?s Wild West performing days dated 1895

Poster, Samuel Cody, Velodrome de la Seine, Paris
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: S. F. Cody Wild West Show (c.1893). Known as a showman, sharpshooter, horseman, aviator and aircraft designer

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