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Old 15th January 2021, 20.37:44   #862-0 (permalink)
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Default Re: The sad case of a founding members and player of Wrexham Football Club (Massive history thread!)

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As attached. Wrexham Races on the 'new course' 27/28th March 1739 as advertised in The London Evening Post in January 1739, and the following year a three day meeting from 8/9/10th April 1740.

Y Cae Ras is 'at least' 279 years old.
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In a chapter about ancient racehorses, from a book, which was published in 1845, it had been recorded that a horse called 'Black Chance' had been the winner of one of the races at Wrexham in 1740
To add to this, Black Chance was foaled in 1732 by owner John Hutton of Richmond, Yorkshire and sold to Richard Williams of Cheshire around 1739.
He won a £30 purse at Wrexham in 1740, beating Mr Middleton’s ‘Cato’ and Mr Edwards’s ‘Sober John’.
His racing pedigree and performances were recorded in ‘The Turf Register and Sportsman& Breeder’s Stud Book’ which was published by A Bartholoman, the publisher of The York Herald in 1803.
The stud book was an updated register of three volumes, which were taken from an earlier collection of pedigrees, which had been written and published by William Pick in 1785.
Pick had also published a number of other works, including five volumes of ‘Pick And Johnson’s Racing Calender’ which recorded the pedigrees and performances of British racehorses from 1702 to to 1792.
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