HISTORY OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. 



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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- 

 tances and gradients, the Jockey Club 

 has leased several plots of exercise 

 ground lying to the east of Newmarket ; 



Exercise ground to the 

 east of Newmarket. 



these include 



theBuryHill, 



the Warren 



Hill,theLime- 



kilns where 



a straight 



gallop of two 



miles has lately been finished, by means of acquiring the 



Waterhall farm and finally the new winter ground, on which 



the finest tan gallop in the world has been made since the 



year 1882. 



In 1882 the Exning Estate, conterminous to 'The Flat' in 

 nearly its whole length, came into the market. The Jockey 

 Club was forced to buy, lest building speculators should erect 

 houses overlooking the Heath, and this last outlay has doubtless 



