Racing Collection (page 7)

At the Sandown races
The British thoroughbred racehorse, Bayardo, wins the Eclipse Stakes at the Sandown Park meeting

Royal Box in the Grandstand at Goodwood
The Royal Box in the Grandstand at the Goodwood Racecourse

Four famous Kentucky Thoroughbreds: Diomed, Boston, Lexington and Glencoe

Mr and Mrs G. D. Luck in a dinghy
Neat work with a dinghy: Mr and Mrs G. D. Luck being rowed ashore by the younger generation after taking part in a race at the Royal Fowey Yacht Clubs Cornish regatta

Prominent members of the racing set at Goodwood
Lord Stradbroke, Lady Hamilton, Lady Stradbroke and Sir John Cotterell at the Goodwood races

Greyhounds over hurdles
Two greyhounds leap over a hurdle during a race

The Winning Jockey
The winning jockey celebrates with his girl in the winners enclosure. Illustration from The Merry Duchess Valse music sheet

A Day at the Races
3 To 1, - Bar Two The singer Miss Annie Adams is pictured in the foreground enjoying champagne and lobsters from her Fortnum and Mason hamper

At Full Speed 1914
At full speed !

Goodwood: before Start
Preparing to start a race at Goodwood

Berlin Motor Race Poster
A poster for a motor racing meeting on 12th and 22nd October at Berlin, Germany

German Grand Prix / 1935
The German Grand Prix won by Nuvolari driving a modified Alfa P.3. A fierce battle took place between Rosemeyer and Caracciola, but Nuvolari surged to take first place

Jockey / Charlie Smirke
Charlie Smirke, jockey, in the colours of the Aga Khan

Jockey / J a Taylor 20C
J A Taylor, jockey, in the colours of Mr WH Thorpe

Jockey / Joseph Marshall
Joseph Marshall, jockey, in the colours of Mrs C Rich

Jockey / Tommy Lowrey 20C
Tommy Lowrey, jockey, in the colours of Major JS Courtauld

ASCOT 1866
The betting ring on the Ascot racecourse

French Motorbike Champ 2
Hoffmann, French motor cycling champion; to tell the truth, hes standing still, but a little retouching gives the illusion hes travelling at speed

Troublesome Youngsters
Young and inexperienced racehorses prove a handful for their jockeys before the start

Malcolm Campbell 1932
Malcolm Campbell drives his Bluebird on Daytona Beach, Florida, at a speed of 408 km/h

Timing a Motor Cycle
Timing a motor cycle : when the machine crosses beams from photo-electric cella at the start and finish of the run, the time is measured. (In fact, the beam is invisible.)

Cup Day at Ascot / 1914
Socialising on Cup Day at Royal Ascot

Midnight Steeplechase 2
THE MIDNIGHT STEEPLECHASE The large field near Biless Corner - Subden leads over the fence

Horse Racing / Jockeys
British Jockey

Comic postcard, woman at the races with bookie, placing a bet both ways Date: 20th century

Steeple Chase, horse racing board game. 20th century

Piastoon, Australian race horse, owned by R H Edkins, trainer E Fisher. Winner of seven races. Date: circa late 1920s

Euan Rabagliati marries Mrs Beatrix Gandolfi-Hornyold
Lieutenant Colonel Cuthbert Euan Charles Rabagliati MC, AFC, (18921978) - was a British soldier, pilot, race car driver and intelligence officer - marries Beatrix Purdey Oliver

A pigeon fancier at the Tipton Racing Pigeon Club, in the Black Country of West Midlands, England, holds a prize bird in his hands. It is a pied chequered hen. Date: 1990

Horse trotting races - Hipodromo, Sant Lluis, Mahon, Menorca
Horse trotting races at Hipodromo, Sant Lluis, Mahon, Menorca, Spain. A male jockey driver in orange shirt and hat out in front of the field

Old man in pigeon loft, Stoke
An old man wearing a cloth cap checks his racing pigeons in his back yard pigeon loft Date: 1987

Track Cycling Race - Continental Pneumatic Advert
Continental Pneumatic Tyre Company (of Hanover, Germany) advertising postcard showing a track cycle race in full swing. Date: 1916

Illustration by Louis Wain, showing cats as humans being weighed before a horse race. Date: 1901

Sir Gordon Carter, Clerk of Ascot Racecourse, racing fixtures Date: 1930

Bookmaker and punters at racecourse
Charlie Redrup, bookmaker with punters at racecourse. Date: circa 1930s

Jack Chapman, dirt track speedway
Jack Chapman, Australian dirt track speedway rider, thrown from his bike during the Puritan Cup at Audenshaw. Date: 1929

Joe Carstairs in racing boat Newg II
Marion Barbara Carstairs (1900 1993), known as Joe, but called Betty here by the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, in her racing motor boat Newg II

Interesting personalities of the racing world
Page from The Tatler featuring various well-known personalities of the racing world. Clockwise from top left, jockey Danny Maher and Sir E

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

Greyhound puppies for sale, White City Stadium, West London
Greyhound puppies for sale at White City Stadium, West London, on 15 August 1934. Date: 1934

Lester Piggott - Flat race jockey Date: 1970s - 1980s

Motor racing drivers
Graham Hill, Murray Walker, Jackie Stewart, Bernie Ecclestone, Lewis Hamilton, Nigel Mansell, Stirling Moss, James Hunt, Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher - Motor racing drivers

Motor racing circuit track at Brooklands, Surrey. 1930s

Miles M. 77 Sparrowjet G-ADNL
Miles M.77 Sparrowjet G-ADNL at Shoreham Airport. G-ADNL had a moderately successful racing career, winning the SBAC Challenge Cup at Yeadon on 21 May 1956

Lesher Nomad N1066Z, the two-seat cousin of the Lesher Teal single-seat racing aircraft. Date: 1970s

Hanriot HD-22
The sole Hanriot HD-22 racing monoplane, built for the 1921 Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe air race, was withdrawn from the race at the last moment. Date: 1921

Lima, Peru - The Hippodrome, with its remarkable isalmic/moorish architectural styling. circa 1910

Schempp-Hirth Minimoa BGA338 under repair With Slingsby Sailplanes at Kirbymoorside in 1943.After being impressed into the Royal Air Force BGA338 was flown briefly by the ATC at 123 Elelmentary

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