ALDERSHOT RACECOURSE |
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Earliest meeting: Monday 22nd July 1861 |
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This racecourse is covered in Volume 2 of Racecourses Here Today and Gone Tomorrow. Ordering details shown below. | |
Local Patrons | Captain Helyar, Captain Burke, Captain Chaplin, Captain Humphreys, Captain Morgan, Captain Willans |
Principal Races | Aldershot Cup, Yeomanry Steeplechase, Farnborough Cup, Military Hunt Steeplechase |
The extracts shown below are from Bell's Life and the Sporting Chronicle of Sunday 25th May 1856 and are shown courtesy of the British Library Online. |
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As well as the final results from the two-day meeting, a further newspaper extract shows that a subscription to purchase the prizes was raised in Farnham prior to the Royal Artillery troop leaving that town and making their way to the Camp at Aldershot. |
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Wednesday 11th July 1866 |
The Farnborough Cup over 1 ¼ miles The Aldershot Town Plate over a mile |
Very grateful thanks to Tom Jones for providing the following details of the Aldershot racemeeting of 1878:- |
WEDNESDAY 24th APRIL 1878 YEOMANRY STEEPLECHASE 3 miles MILITARY HUNT STEEPLECHASE 2 miles 4 furlongs HUNTER'S PLATE 2 miles |
Monday 22nd July 1861 |
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Although the last official meeting took place on 13th April 1927, Military meetings took place up to 1939, and the course still exists, managed by the British Horse Society. |
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Course today | Situated approximately 3 miles from Aldershot, near the village of Church Crookham, the 1884 Tweseldown course still exists today. |
If you have photos, postcards, racecards. badges, newspaper cuttings or book references about the old course, or can provide a photo of how the ground on which the old racecourse stood looks today, then email johnwslusar@gmail.com | |
Much of the information about this course has been found using internet research and is in the public domain. However, useful research sources have been:- London Illustrated News Racing Illustrated 1895-1899 The Sporting & Dramatic Illustrated Northern Turf History Volumes 1-4 by J.Fairfax-Blakeborough The Sporting Magazine A Long Time Gone by Chris Pitt first published in 1996 ISBN 0 900599 89 8 Racing Calendars which were first published in 1727 |
1916 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 |
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1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1935 |
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1936 | 1937 | 1937 | 1938 |
1939 |
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ISBN 978-0-9957632-0-3 652 pages 774 former courses |
ISBN 978-0-9957632-1-0 352 pages 400 former courses |
ISBN 978-0-9957632-2-7 180 pages 140 former courses |
ISBN 978-0-9957632-3-4 264 pages 235 former courses |
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