A Group of Tickets and Passes Related to Horse Racing

YORKSHIRE, Doncaster, oval ivory (2), Ladies Stand, undated, backs named (No. 71, Honble. Egremont Lascelles; No. 72, Honble. Egremont Lascelles), both 50 x 37mm, 7.28g and 8.04g (W –; D & W –) [2]. Fine to very fine but No. 71 cracked, very rare; pierced for suspension and tied together with contemporary purple ribbon £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Group of Tickets and Passes Related to Horse Racing.

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Egremont William Lascelles, DL (1825-92), Harewood, Leeds; Capt, Grenadier Guards, 1847; Major, 1st West Yorks Militia, 1852; Conservative MP for Northallerton 1866-8. Lascelles, a prominent figure at race meetings in Yorkshire from the late 1840s until the late 1870s, was a keen sportsman, steward, owner of racehorses and rode to hounds. The second pass was presumably used by his wife, Jessie Elizabeth, née Malcolm (1829-1900), who married Lascelles in December 1856.

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