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RACING. 



The Jockey Club aftervv-ards sold the farm forming the centre 

 of the course, but stipulated with Mr. Salisbury Dunn, the 

 purchaser, that the running-track should be only farmed as 

 sheep walk. 



In 1808 were added the two plots of ground running 

 parallel with, and east of, the Ditch, crossing the Cambridge 

 Road, and bounded on the east side by a line bisecting the 

 Rowley Mile near the Bushes. The northern part of this 

 ground was purchased from Mr. Salisbury 

 Dunn, the southern from Mr. C. Pember- 

 ton, and the whole was vested in trust for 



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the Jockey 

 Club. 



In 1819 

 the purchase 

 of 'The Flat 

 was com- 



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Exercise ground to the 

 east of Newmarket. 



pleted by the 



acquisition of Crown Lands reaching to the site of the present 

 Birdcage, at the Rowley Mile Stands, an exchange with 

 Pembroke College having previously secured the small plot 

 which separated the purchases of 1808 from those of 1819. 

 The remainder of the Beacon Course was devoted to racing 

 by the Exning Enclosure Act of 1807. 



Besides these lands, through which run the four miles of 

 the Beacon Course, subdivided into various courses of all dis- 



