Today is the City and Suburban Handicap at Epsom racecourse, which of course also stages the Derby, the foremost contest of the Flat season. The City and Suburban (1915 running in the pic) is vin ordinaire by comparison but in its day it was a grand old race, a height of Spring race. Established in 1851, it was the creation of a man who owned The Dolphin
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