Stable Lads
Apr 22, 2021
2 minutes
Alex Daley
Historian & author
@thealexdaley
INKS between boxing and horse racing go back centuries. In racing’s early days, Newmarket’s movers and shakers had a predilection for pugilism. In 1790, two of Britain’s top jockeys, Sam Chifney and Dick Goodison, settled a dispute over “dirty riding” with a fight for 100 guineas aside on the insistence of their patrons, respectively the Duke of
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