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Pony Racing People

The people who populated the course during its racing years, from wealthy aristocrats to ordinary people who lived locally.
The 'Great and Good' including the King's son-in-law, an aristocratic jockey and a baronet who later murdered another noble lord. Racehorse owners who spent their way to the top as owners of ponies and other racehorses. This one had a reputation for heavy betting and hijacking cars. They all seemed to lose a lot of money.
The top jockey who went on to win the Derby. Showbusiness personalities of stage and screen from the Twenties and Thirties.
Eyewitness accounts from local people who lived by the course or worked there. Leonard Jayne race commentator, journalist and historian of NP.
A Egerton Cooper painter of NP. The Managers entrepreneurs who found the money for the new course and saw it through boom and bust. Page top

Colin Richards: 100424.507@compuserve.com - .Last Update October 1996.