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2013 Event - Anchorage, Alaska begins the 1,000 mile, 2013 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race; winners receive a new truck and $50,400 in prize money

2013 Event - In Greece, Nicos Anastasiades, leader of Cyprus's main opposition Disy party, wins the Presidential race

2012 Event - A tight race is expected in South Korea as voters choose between Moon Jae-in, of South Korea's Democratic United Party, and Park Geun-hye, of the conservative Saenuri Party

2012 Event - Twenty-five year old Alaskan, Dallas Seavey becomes the youngest winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

2012 Event - 2012 Republican Party Presidential primary candidate Jon Huntsman drops out of the race, endorsing Mitt Romney

2011 Event - The New South Wales boat 'Loki' is proclaimed the winner of the 2011 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

2011 Event - At the 2011 Melbourne Cup, the French-trained horse Dunaden wins the closest finish in the race's history

2010 Event - In Parana, Brazil, a stadium collapses during a car race, injuring 110 people

1998 Event - Indianapolis 500 race

1998 Event - Daytona 500 race

1997 Event - Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race

1997 Event - Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race

1997 Event - Indianapolis 500 race

1996 Event - San Diego Padres sweep Los Angeles Dodgers in race for NL West title

1996 Event - Indianapolis 500 race

1996 Event - Daytona 500 race

1995 Death - Fabio Casartelli, raced with Ariostea team in 1993, won Olympic gold medal in 1992 Summer Olympics road race, died during 15th stage of the 1995 Tour de France, in a crash occurring on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet in the Pyrenees

1995 Death - Reza Abdoh, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS, died of AIDS at age 32

1995 Event - America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race

1994 Death - Hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies at 29

1994 Death - Don Watson, race car driver, dies in an accident at 46

1994 Event - Howard Stern drops out of New York gubernatorial race

1994 Death - Roland Ratzenberger, race car driver, claimed 1962 as birth year to appear younger and extend racing career, won 1986 Brands Hatch Formula Ford Festival, dies while qualifying for San Marino Prix, in 1994

1993 Death - Davey Allisson, race car drive, dies in a plane crash at 32

1992 Event - Ross Perot re-enters presidental race

1992 Event - USA/U.S.S.R. Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica

1992 Event - Round World Air Race begins in Paris

1991 Event - Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps)

1991 Event - Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal and Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in New York thoroughbred racing history

1991 Event - Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race

1991 Event - Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race

1991 Event - Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race

1991 Event - Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd

1990 Event - Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race

1989 Death - Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS

1989 Event - 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)

1988 Event - Jim Elliott (U.S.) completes 24-hour paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi

1988 Event - Jim Elliott (U.S.) begins 24-hour paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi

1988 Death - Mike Venezia, jockey, dies in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, New York

1988 Event - Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana)

1987 Event - Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race

1987 Event - Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)

1987 Event - Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF and Harley Race for trademark name "king"

1987 Event - Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race due to Donna Rice affair

1987 Event - Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race

1986 Event - 150 killed during race riot in Karachi

1986 Event - Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

1986 Event - 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita

1986 Event - Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)

1986 Event - 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38 degrees F (3 degrees C), Indiana

1985 Event - Race riot in Birmingham England

1985 Event - Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race

1985 Event - Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skateing race

1984 Event - Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race

1983 Event - Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-U.S. winner)

1983 Event - U.S. District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination

1983 Death - Don Ida, balloonists, dies during a race

1983 Death - Maxie Anderson, balloonists, dies during a race

1983 Event - Hennie Kuiper (Netherlands) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race

1982 Event - Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm

1982 Event - Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery

1982 Death - Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash

1981 Event - Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey

1981 Event - Race riot in London area of Brixton

1981 Event - Race riots in London's Brixton area

1980 Event - Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured

1977 Event - Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ

1976 Event - Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die

1976 Event - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race

1974 Event - Race riot in Boston due to "busing"

1974 Death - Peter Revson, U.S. race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35

1973 Birthday - Susannah Kate Pryde, Auckland New Zealand, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics

1973 Event - 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, California, beating a field of 1,500 runners

1973 Event - Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ

1973 Event - Harley Race beats Dory Funk, Jr. in Kansas City, to become NWA champ

1973 Event - Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race

1972 Birthday - Glen Anthony Mitchell, Hamilton New Zealand, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics

1972 Event - 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk

1972 Event - Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship

1972 Event - Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race

1971 Event - Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race

1971 Event - Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (New York City)

1970 Event - Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida

1970 Death - Jochen Rindt, German race car driver, dies at 28

1970 Event - 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut

1970 Birthday - Fabio Casartelli, born in Como, Italy, raced with Ariostea team in 1993, won Olympic gold medal in 1992 Summer Olympics road race

1970 Event - 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park, New Jersey

1970 Event - Race riots in Miami, Florida

1970 Event - Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)

1970 Birthday - Secreteriat, race horse, triple crown, 1973

1969 Birthday - Richard Dickson Reid, New Zealand, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics

1969 Event - Race riot in Jacksonville Florida

1969 Event - France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)

1969 Birthday - Alina Ivanova, born in Ukraine, race walker, indoor 3K world record

1969 Event - White Rhodesia agrees to race separation

1969 Event - Race riot in Hartford Connecticut

1968 Birthday - Gord Fraser, Ottawa Ontario, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics

1968 Birthday - Glenn Leroy McLeay, Invercargill New Zealand, points race cyclist 1996 Olympics

1968 Event - Race riot in Miami, Chicago and Little Rock

1968 Event - Race riot in Miami, Florida

1968 Event - Race Riot in Gary, Indiana

1968 Event - Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed

1968 Death - Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car

1967 Event - Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)

1967 Event - Race riots in Cambridge Maryland

1967 Event - Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game

1967 Event - 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)

1967 Event - Race riots in Memphis, Tennessee

1967 Event - Race riots in Durham, North Carolina

1967 Birthday - Vin Diesel, born in New York City, New York, actor, director, producer, appeared in 'The Fast and the Furious', 'Pitch Black', founder of One Race Films production company

1967 Event - Race riots in Cairo, Illinois

1967 Event - Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die

1967 Event - 23 die in Newark race riot

1967 Event - Race riot in Buffalo New York (200 arrested)

1967 Event - Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio, 300 arrested

1967 Event - Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes

1967 Event - Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston

1966 Death - Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of Dutch Race), dies

1966 Event - Race riot in Waukegan, Illinois

1966 Event - Race riot in Lansing, Michigan

1966 Event - Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland, race riot

1966 Event - Race riot in Chicago

1966 Event - Race riots in Omaha, Nebraska

1966 Event - Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)

1965 Birthday - Brian Walton, Ottawa Ontario, points race cyclist, 1996 Olympics silver

1965 Birthday - Jacqueline Mary Nelson, Upper Hutt New Zealand, points race cyclist 1996 Olympics

1964 Event - Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey

1964 Event - Race riot in Rochester, New York

1964 Event - Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race

1964 Birthday - Alex Solis, born in Panama City, Panama, jockey, in the Calder Race Course Hall of Fame, over 4,500 career wins

1963 Event - Race riot in Birmingham Alabama

1963 Birthday - John Andretti, born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, race car driver, winner, CART, NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters NASCAR stock racing and endurance racing

1963 Birthday - Reza Abdoh, born in Tehran, Iran, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS

1963 Event - Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59)

1962 Event - Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (U.S. wins)

1962 Event - Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school

1962 Event - U.S. Supreme Court disallows race separation on public transportation

1960 Birthday - Chad McQueen, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, film producer, played role of Dutch in The Karate Kid movie, race car driver, started McQueen Racing LLC in 2010

1960 Event - Race riot in Jacksonville Florida

1960 Birthday - Roland Ratzenberger, Salzburg, Austria, race car driver, claimed 1962 as birth year to appear younger and extend racing career, won 1986 Brands Hatch Formula Ford Festival

1959 Event - Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse

1958 Birthday - Evert van Benthem, Dutch skater, 11 Cities Skating Race, 1985, 86

1958 Event - Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London

1958 Event - Federal judge rules race separation must end in 2 years in Little Rock

1957 Event - South Africa government approves race separation in universities

1956 Event - U.S. Methodist church disallows race separation

1956 Event - U.S. Supreme Court ends race segregation on buses

1955 Event - Race segregation forbidden on trains and buses between U.S. states

1955 Event - Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators, race continues

1955 Event - Jill Kinmont hits a tree and breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race

1954 Death - Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), dies at 51

1954 Birthday - Philippe Alliot, race driver, grand prix

1954 Event - 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th

1954 Event - Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)

1952 Birthday - Jan Raas, born in Heinkenszand, Zeeland, Dutch professional cyclist, won 10 stages in the Tour de France, won Amstel Gold Race five times

1952 Birthday - Gloria Jean Watkins, born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, born Gloria Jean Watkins, author, feminist, focus on race, class, gender, wrote, 'Ain't I a Woman? : Black Women and Feminism'

1951 Event - 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)

1950 Event - Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run

1949 Event - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California

1949 Event - 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks)

1949 Event - Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die

1948 Death - Malcolm Campbell, English race driver, dies at 63

1948 Event - 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie

1947 Event - Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)

1946 Event - U.S. Supreme Court rules race separation on buses, unconstitutional

1946 Event - 2 killed and 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia, Tennessee

1945 Event - New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment

1945 Event - Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)

1945 Birthday - Jacques Ickx, Belgium, Le Mans auto race, 6-time winner

1944 Event - Race riots in Athens Alabama

1944 Event - Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race

1943 Event - Race riot in Harlem New York City

1943 Event - Detroit race riot kills 35

1942 Event - "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations

1942 Event - Race riots in Harlem, New York

1942 Event - 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens

1942 Birthday - Giacomo Agostini, born in Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion

1942 Birthday - Jochen Rindt, German race car driver

1942 Event - Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit

1941 Birthday - Sven Hamrin, born in Sweden, road race cycler, 1964 Olympics bronze

1941 Event - Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19)

1940 Event - Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Washington Senators, loses Maryland congressional race

1940 Death - Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race and Crime), suicide at 63

1940 Event - Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race

1938 Event - Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico

1938 Birthday - Janet Guthrie, race car driver, 1st woman to race in Indianapolis 500

1938 Death - Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver, dies at 28

1937 Birthday - Richard Petty, auto race driver, Daytona 500-1979,81

1936 Event - H. R. Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 days

1936 Birthday - Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver, world champ 1966

1936 Birthday - Jim Clark, race car driver, Indianapolis 500

1936 Event - 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla

1935 Birthday - A J Foyt, Houston, auto race driver, Indy 500 1961, 64, 67, 77

1934 Event - "Uiver" returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race

1934 Birthday - John Surtees, British race car driver

1932 Event - 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, New York (demonstration sport)

1932 Event - Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race

1931 Event - Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488) beats Bill Terry's

1931 Event - Reno race track, becomes 1st in U.S. to use daily double wagering

1930 Event - Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)

1929 Birthday - Stirling Moss, race car driver

1929 Event - New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde

1929 Event - Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds

1928 Event - Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia

1928 Event - "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles to New York City begins; It is won by Andy Payne

1927 Death - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71

1922 Event - 1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland

1921 Event - Race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 61 people killed

1920 Event - Man O'War's last race and win

1920 Event - 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track in Emeryville, California

1919 Event - 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money

1919 Event - Race riot at Elaine Arkansas

1919 Event - 1st transcontinental air race ends

1919 Event - Chicago race riot, 15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured

1919 Event - Race Riot in Washington D.C. (6 killed, 100 wounded)

1919 Event - Race riots in Longview and Gregg counties Texas

1919 Event - Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina, 2 blacks killed

1918 Event - Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites and 1 black killed)

1918 Event - Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed)

1917 Event - Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks and 11 whites killed)

1917 Event - Silent Parade in New York City to protest murders of blacks in race riots

1917 Event - Race riots in East St. Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)

1917 Event - Race riot in East St. Louis Illinois, 1 black killed

1917 Event - Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9:53) (record)

1914 Event - 1st U.S. motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)

1913 Birthday - Jo Sinclair, born in Brooklyn, New York, pen name Jo Sinlair, writer, novelist, focused on race relations and the struggle of immigrant families, wrote Sing at My Wake, Anna Teller

1912 Event - 1st running of San Francisco's famed "Bay to Breakers" race, 7.63 miles / 12.3 km

1911 Event - Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole

1911 Event - 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH)

1911 Event - 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run

1910 Event - 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st U.S. auto speedway)

1910 Birthday - An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer, Skating Race

1909 Event - World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins

1909 Event - Indianapolis 500 race track opens

1909 Event - Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds

1909 Event - Moran and MacFarland (U.S.) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)

1908 Event - Allen Winter wins U.S. 1st $50,000 trotting race

1908 Event - Race riot in Springfield Illinois

1908 Event - Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris

1908 Event - New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins in New York City George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel

1907 Event - Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph)

1905 Event - 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)

1904 Event - 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, New York)

1903 Event - 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins

1903 Event - Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens

1903 Event - New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced

1902 Event - Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race

1902 Birthday - Willie Shaw, race car driver, Indy 500-1937, 39, 40

1901 Event - 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds

1901 Event - Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th

1900 Event - Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed

1900 Event - An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hours

1899 Event - 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York

1899 Birthday - Jacques Audiberti, French poet, Race of Men

1899 Event - 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in U.S. begins, MSG, New York City

1898 Event - Race riot in Wilmington North Carolina (8 blacks killed)

1898 Birthday - George van Derton, Belgian racer, won 500 race

1897 Event - 1st motorcycle race (Surrey England)

1896 Event - 1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, RI

1896 Event - A. H. Whiting wins 1st automobile race held on a track in Cranston, Rhode Island

1896 Event - Bay District Race Track closes

1896 Event - 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY

1896 Event - U.S. Supreme Court affirms race separation (Plessy vs. Ferguson)

1896 Event - 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden

1895 Event - America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH

1895 Event - Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)

1893 Event - San Francisco Bay City Club opens 1st U.S. bicycle race track, made of wood

1891 Event - 1st International 6 day bike race (New York MSG) ends

1891 Event - 1st International 6 day bike race (New York MSG) begins

1891 Event - 1st international 6-day bicycle race in U.S. (MSG, New York City) begins

1887 Event - Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted

1883 Event - NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race

1883 Event - Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)

1882 Event - With 120 miles James Saunders wins New York City's 24 hour race and $100 prize

1882 Event - New York City's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours

1881 Birthday - Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, Milan, race car builder, Amaz Bugattis

1878 Event - CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston

1877 Event - University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat

1876 Event - Race riot at Cainhoy South Carolina (5 whites and 1 black killed)

1876 Event - Race riot in Charleston SC

1876 Birthday - Willem A Bonger, Dutch sociologist/criminologist, Race and Crime

1874 Birthday - Kincsem, horse that never lost a race

1873 Event - Bay District Race Track opens

1870 Event - Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore

1870 Event - 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race

1869 Event - Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen)

1869 Event - 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)

1868 Event - Dr. James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St. Cloud, Paris

1866 Event - 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean

1866 Event - Race riot in New Orleans

1855 Birthday - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist

1852 Event - 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths

1838 Event - 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide

1831 Birthday - John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track

1827 Event - Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)

1809 Event - 1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England

1776 Event - St. Leger horse race run for 1st time

1716 Event - 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)

1716 Event - Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed

1668 Event - 1st horse race in America takes place

1661 Event - 1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James

1540 Event - The 1st recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)













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