It isn’t about who stands around gawking, it is about who owns the horses. Horses are an expensive asset and throughout history, it took someone like a king or a lord to be able to afford to use their horses for sport versus as a tool.
I believe polo is the “sport of kings” but the reason is similar.
Thoroughbred racing was popular with the aristocrats and royalty of British society, earning it the title “Sport of Kings.”
It didn't take kings to race horses in the US, beginning in the colonies we had horse races. Much more so with the expansion of the nation where horse racing was a favorite pastime across the great American West from its very beginning.
Only the nobility could afford horses. When they began returning from the Crusades with fast Arabians the sport really took off.
Why did you put semi-alcoholics in that grouping? Some of us don’t do anything halfway. I find the insinuation distasteful.
And some of us aren’t kings, semi-alcoholics, or losers, but we do like riding Thoroughbreds around at 35 miles an hour or so.
Racing in England dates as far as 1530 at York. Ten years later, Chester had its first racecourse. Two-horse match races for a private wager became popular among the nobility. That’s why today horse racing remains known as the Sport of Kings.
Because boxing is the “sweet science”.
1. It originated with Jacob who, when Rachel died, buried her next to the hippodrome [from the original latin Vulgate from the greek? hippodrome=racetrack] Jacob was the leader of all the Hebrews in Canaan.
2. Joseph`s chariot that had no mention of a horse pulling it- but the Arab tradition says that Joseph`s bride-to-be, the daughter of the high priest, was promised that white horse by the Pharaoh, but Pharaoh gave it and the chariot to Joseph. She marries Joseph just to get her horse back. Joseph was as powerful as Pharaoh.
3. Jacob is almost blind but he can see Joesph from afar- Why> Because Joseph`s white horse can be seen in the sun a long way off with the bright sunlight bouncing off him.
War is the sport of kings.
Everything else is just the sport of the well off.
Also, another guess is why women wear their fanciest hats ot opening day races?
Maybe Rachel had a big hat and was was the first to love horse racing?
Why would Jacob then bury her at the hippodrome if there wasn`t some kind of connection between Rachel and horse-racing?
-Who knows?
Mabye they should call it the sport of the king of beers...
They eat,train and have vet's visits etc. etc etc. win OR lose.
... because horses eat while you sleep.
sport of princes, too.
