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I am a member of the Manchester Group of the Victorian Society and I have the role of finding speakers. I am hoping to find someone who can deliver a lecture on some aspect of Victorian racing, it could be owners, trainers, stables, breeders, they would have to have in depth knowledge.
Has anyone any ideas?Had a bit of a rummage Crepello in economic/social history terrain –
http://www.sports.stir.ac.uk/staff/Wray_Vamplew.phpThere’s a chapter – Captains Courageous: Gentlemen Riders in British Horse Racing, 1866 – 1914 (by Wray Vamplew and Joyce Kay) that might be of interest. It’s in a book on Amateurism in British Sport. You ought to be able to get to it via this link – https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7V3dAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=joyce+kay+horse+racing&source=bl&ots=sgnUkzc5Fi&sig=423go2puY8iRTm-wKqKuwmYIj_8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK9oiwp5LPAhUDJsAKHRSbDiQ4ChDoAQgoMAE#v=onepage&q=joyce%20kay%20horse%20racing&f=false
The pdf of the chapter comes up as well when you search for it.
Vamplew/Kay have an Encyclopedia of Horse Racing – scrolling through what is available to view of that online has quite an interesting chronology of key events in the Victorian period (beyond the usual horses/jockeys focus). I would imagine that that could spin out into quite an interesting lecture.
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