Epsom races were styled “Our Isthmian Games” by Lord
Palmerston, in allusion to the famous games consisting of chariot
races, running, wrestling, boxing, etc., held by the Greeks in the
Isthmus of Corinth every alternate spring, the first and third of each
Olympiad.
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