Chester Facts

Chester has the oldest race course in the UK. In 1540 Henry Gee, the mayor of Chester in 1540, cancelled the Traditional Shrove Tuesday football game and replaced it with a horse race. His surname is where we get the term 'Gee Gee's'.
 

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