Badsworth Hunt Racecourse

BADSWORTH HUNT RACECOURSE

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Earliest meeting: April 1836 Final meeting: Tuesday 3rd April 1838 The ‘County History of Yorkshire’ reported that the Racing Calendar of 1836 included a steeplechase meeting held under the auspices of the Badsworth Hunt in April 1836. The next year a meeting took place on Wednesday 29th March 1837 in fields near the village of Wentbridge and was followed by Ordinaries at the Red Lion Hotel, Pontefract. The Sporting Magazine recorded a Spring meeting organised by the Badsworth Hunt over 4 miles on a course near Pontefract on Tuesday 3rd April 1838. The steeplechase course started at Badsworth Hall and ended in a field near Hardwick, with the principal race, the Badsworth Hunt 10 Sovereigns Purse, won by Lord Hake’s Conservative.
This racecourse is covered in Volume 1 of Racecourses Here Today and Gone Tomorrow. Ordering details shown below.
Local Patrons	Lord Hawke
Principal Races	Badsworth Hunt 10 Sovereigns Purse
Tuesday 3rd April 1838	Badsworth Hunt 10 Sovereigns Purse 1. Conservative owned by Lord Hawke 2. Comical owned by Mr T Brooke 3. Moonshine owned by Mr Young
These were the only meetings held by the Badsworth Hunt.
Course today	In the grounds of Badsworth Hall.
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

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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