ROYAL ASCOT
The premier race meeting of the world Is that held at. Ascot, and called Royal Ascot, because it ,is always patronised by Royalty. The course belongs to * the Crown, and is managed by th© master of the Buokhounds, but tho stewards are tho three stewards of the Jookoy Club. All the money made out of the Ascot meetings is speht on tho course, and in providing stakes. The prize money for the four days amounts to about £40,000, It is not a small man's fixture, and it is not intended to be one. It costs no less than £IOO to run for the Coronation Stakes, a race for three-year-old fillies, which is tho richest prize of the meeting. This race was first run in 1840.. In that year the young Queen’went to Ascot, and, as Mr Oorlett puts it:—-“What commemorates Queen Tictoria in connection with Ascot is tho Coronation Stakes, which was first run in 1640. and it has been run without a break since that time. It was first won, appropriately enough, by Lord Albemarle, who was Master of tho Horse, at tho time.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 16
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187ROYAL ASCOT New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 16
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