Newmarket has a rich history, with the town as we know it today dating back to 1200.
It was Charles II who did more than any other monarch to advance the sport of horseracing in England - he instituted by Act of Parliament in 1665 the first race to be run in Britain under written rules and exported the name of Newmarket and the sport of horseracing to America that same year - and his love affair with Newmarket is well chronicled.
