Regency audience in theatre boxes and stalls watching a horse race in Astley’s Amphitheatre. Poney Race at Astley’s Amphitheatre. The amphitheatre was opened by Philip Astley in 1773 and rebuilt in 1794 after a fire. Copperplate engraving from The Sporting Magazine aor Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf and the Chace, John Wheble, London, 1795.

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