Assertion: horse racing | /r/AtLocation | 17th century
Facets:
value: evidently
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Horse racing was evidently popular in the 17th century: a 1622 poem tells of a jockey killed participating in a horse race in Carrickfergus, while other accounts mention a 1634 race between Lord Digby and the Earl of Ormond, and the establishment in 1682 of a race by Lord Kildare, with a plate of 40 pounds to the winner.