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There s new hope for racing relics with a nationally important story, as a book published this week tells. Chris Lloyd reports ON the moors above Richmond, with panoramic views east to the hills and coast of Cleveland, are the remains of the world’s oldest surviving racecourse grandstand. It was designed by Yorkshire’s greatest Georgian architect and it was the first in the world to enable in-race betting. In its heyday 200 years ago, it was the fashionable place to be seen as the wealthy showed off their finery on race day. Nearby on this elliptical stretch of gently undulating grassland stands the square stone judge’s box – the oldest in the country – beside what was once the finishing line.