Pro bono publico. Ascot-Heath, second meeting. By permission, three days sport
Subtitle: On Whitsun Monday, being the 4th day of June next, will be run for, on Ascot Heath, five miles from Brooklyn-Ferry, the noblemen and gentlemens purse of one hundred pounds, free for any horse, mare or gelding ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 44033
Publisher: Printed by A. Robertson, no. 2, Queen-Street.
Published: 1781
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Horse racing; Rules; American loyalists; Recreation centers
Notes: Dated: Brooklyn-Hall, May 8th, 1781.

"All horses to be entered at Mr. Loosley's (variously Loosely, Looseley) King's Head Tavern, on the race ground ... or at Mr. Loosley's Brooklyn Hall ..."

The only known copy of this broadside, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is badly mutilated with partial loss of title, which has been supplied from examples of similar advertisements published by Charles Loosley in New York's loyalist newspapers in May 1781.

Printed area measures 35.9 x 26.8 cm.

Bristol B5348

Shipton & Mooney 44033