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  • Singapore: a police officer clearing two race-goers from the racecourse. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • Two episodes about Mr. Muff and Mr. Randle at the races and being swindled out of some money. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • [1945 racing programme, sold to raise funds for the Red Cross. The races were probably arranged by the British military in post-war occupied Italy].
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • Three bookmakers (representing British politicians) are watching a horserace in which three horses are neck and neck. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 7 September 1889.
  • [1945 racing programme, sold to raise funds for the Red Cross. The races were probably arranged by the British military in post-war occupied Italy].
  • Hong Kong: the racecourse. Photograph, 1873 by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • Kuching, Sarawak: horses being mounted in the racecourse paddock. Photograph.
  • [1945 racing programme, sold to raise funds for the Red Cross. The races were probably arranged by the British military in post-war occupied Italy].
  • A warning against sexually transmitted diseases: in a three-horse race watched by Death, syphilis is about to overtake tuberculosis, while cancer comes third. Colour lithograph by E.-C. Jodelet, 1926.
  • The Midlothian campaign of 1879-80; a horserace between Lord Rosebery riding a horse with the face of Gladstone (the Liberal candidate) and Benjamin Disraeli riding a horse with the face of Lord Dalkeith (the Conservative candidate). Engraving by A. Mantrop, 1879/1880.
  • Kuching, Sarawak: view of the racecourse. Photograph.
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • Singapore: a stubborn horse at the start of Singapore racecourse. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • Singapore: two race-going celebrities talk as a race horse is ridden past them. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • Crowds of people are watching the horse racing in a large field with marquees in it. Colour process print.
  • Crowds watching horses approach the finishing line of the Derby. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker after G. Doré.
  • Above, two horses and their riders are approaching the finishing post in a race at Newmarket, eagerly awaited by a crowd; below, grooms and horses taking their exercises on a field outside the town of Newmarket. Chromolithograph after E. F. Burney and J. Bodger after J. Wootton.
  • Lord Rosebery as a racehorse-owner conversing with his trainer (William Patrick Adam) about the prospects of a horse ridden by Gladstone, dressed as a jockey. Engraving after L. Sambourne, ca. 1880.
  • British politicians gambling at Ascot. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 14 June 1884.