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In 2017 the new centre became a finalist in the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017 competition and it was looking in immaculate condition in June, including in the shop:
Palace House from the King's Yard
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PALACE HOUSE Reviewed by ANDRE BEAUMONT Palace House's famous bay window fully restored Horses from the Retraining of Racehorses charity reside in the stables and visitors can meet them Twelve year old Starluck being retrained, possibly for dressage There is a polo pitch sized arena Architectural drawing for John Carr's 1756 grandstand building on York's Knavesmire Bronze of Phalaris, born 1913, ancestor of Nearco, Mill Reef, Secretariat.... Mill Reef. He is buried at the National Stud, adjacent to Newmarket's July Course Model of a thoroughbred's heart. Triple Crown winner Secretariat's heart was twice the size Bronze statue of Frankel in the King's Yard There were two two temporary exhibitions showing in June 2017, Chris Smith: Gods of Sport - Fifty years of sporting photography and Boxiana, prints of the pugilists' art. Henry Cecil and Frankel at Warren Place, 2011 Boxiana The shop: limited edition Monopoly and friends In November 2019 a very special exhibition came to Palace House which I attended the opening of: George IV Royalty, Racing & Reputation - of exceptional quality because nearly every exhibit was on loan from H.M. The Queen. As it runs to 19 April 2020, it deserves an excursion to Newmarket to see it. |
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