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H.M. The Queen opened Palace House, the National
Heritage Centre For Horseracing and Sporting Art, in Newmarket on 3 November
2016
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
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.
