YORKSHIRE, Outwood, Wakefield Stand, an engraved oval silver pass, wakefield stand no. 69, rev. named (Duke of Leeds), 42 x 27mm, 4.18g (W 1564; D & W 324/26). Very fine and extremely rare £500-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Racing Tickets and Passes, the Property of a North Country Collector.

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Provenance: SNC May-June 1921 (93634); F.S. Cokayne Collection; bt Baldwin.

Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds, KG, PC, DL (1713-89), whose maternal grandfather was Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford; educ. Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford; Lord of the Bedchamber 1748 and Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire; lived at Harthill and St James’s square, London.

The main record of a Wakefield racecourse refers to that at Outwood, where races were staged from 1745 to 1794. The grandstand was commissioned from the county architect John Carr and had been built by 1750. After the demise of the racecourse the grandstand enjoyed a mixed career as a venue for local society functions but was demolished in 1924