Hurst Park Racecourse
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Hurst Park Racecourse was a racecourse at Moulsey Hurst, West Molesey, Surrey, near the River Thames. It was first laid out in 1890 and held its last race in 1962.
Brick piers at the entrance of the former Hurst Park racecourse, in 2012
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Clara Giveen
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Clara Elizabeth Giveen, also known as Betty Giveen, later Mrs Betty Brewster was a British suffragette. She was known for an arson attack on the grandstand at the Hurst Park Racecourse in 1913, and fo
Hurst Park Racecourse
…188, over six furlongs, was the first race; it was won by Ready, ridden by W. Wood. The racecourse was the scene of an arson attack by Kitty Marion and Clara Elizabeth Giveen. The two suffragettes were establishing a revenge attack following the death of Emily Davison at the Derby in 1913. Hurst Park's most notable flat race…
United Kingdom's Criminal Record Office image of Clara Elizabeth Giveen