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Newmarket Horse Racing and the Joel family circa 1940s/50s. Leather album compiled by Mrs Solna Thompson Jones (nee Joel), wife of horse trainer Henry Thompson Jones, with photographs, press cuttings and ephemera of his race winners etc. variously dated between 1949 and 1954; an Asprey & Co. leather-bound album of telegrams, press cuttings, congratulatory letters and cards celebrating the 21st Birthday celebrations of Solna Joel, (daughter of mining magnate Stanhope Joel) and the Newmarket Town Plate races won by herself and Betty Richards; a scrapbook of Solna Joels’ skiing holiday to Switzerland in 1947 together with family photos; Champion Racehorses 1974 Volume 1, pub. Crawford & Gilbey, no. 51 from the edition of 2,000 copies, with certificate awarded to Stanhope Joel for the achievements of ‘Dahlia’ Champion Racehorse of the year (1974), the cover inset a silver-gilt medallion after John Skeaping RA.; and a signed and framed photograph of Stanhope Joel inscribed ‘To Stan with love from Daddy 1/12/23’. (5)

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