Horse racing
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
"A Daughter's Tale": MS post-1987, 1988-02 - 1998-11
Bloodstock: Airlie Stud, 1968-12 - 1980-08
Papers, correspondence and accounts notes on the breeding, buying and selling of horses in which CS had an interest or shares.
"Clementine Churchill": family correspondence, 1956, 1956-02 - 1956-04
Letter from CS to Sir Winston Churchill on his investments and the progress of Churchill's stud and racehorses.
"Clementine Churchill": minutes between Winston Churchill and CS, 1947-60, 1947-12 - 1991-10
Minutes on subjects including: work at Chartwell [Kent], including the work done by German prisoners of war; Churchill's war memoirs; Churchill's black swans; the racehorses Colonist II, Le Pretendant and Welsh Abbot. Also includes rough speech notes by Churchill for a meeting of the 1922 Committee, mainly relating to Egypt, c 1955, a later note on Colonist II and some of CS's racing accounts, 1981-85.
Copy of an unpublished memoir, 1865-1926, 1926 - 1946
Comprising: Home, Clevedon, Eton; Sandhurst and Examinations; The Grenadier Guards; Racing: a Story of the Inevitable; Ireland; Canada; South African War 1900-1902; Tennis, Hunting, Stalking, Golf, Fishing and Shooting; The First German War: France and Belgium; Italy; Some Notes on the Battle of Vittorio Veneto and After; From Aldershot to Washington; and War Office 1922-26.
With correspondence with Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, 1925 (2).
CS's individual racehorses, 1969-10 - 1987-01
Correspondence, accounts, cuttings and photographs.
George Chawner: Papers
Hamsell Stud, 1962-05 - 1972-05
Papers and correspondence on the partnership known as the Hamsell Stud, between CS and [A D D] Tim Rogers (former aide to Sir Winston Churchill), which was formed to own and manage the horses and interests in horses left to CS by Churchill.
Photographs of WSC’s racehorses, 1949 - 1952
Includes Colonist II, Loving Cup and Non-Stop.
Sir Winston Churchill's horses and racing interests, 1958-08 - 1984-08
Correspondence, with some copies of letters from Churchill to CS, on subjects including: Churchill's and CS's racing colours; Churchill's membership of the Jockey Club; Churchill's racehorses, including Colonist II and High Hat; figures for his stud at the time of his death.
"The Favourite", 1951-05-14
Photo shows WSC smiling and holding his hand out to his horse Colonist II in the enclosure at Hurst Park racecourse [for the Winston Churchill stakes]. A crowd of smiling people watch.
"The Favourite", 1950-09
Photo shows WSC standing in a raised racecourse box, waving his hat and smiling broadly with a cigar in his mouth. Beneath him is a crowd of smiling people.