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Topical Budget 43-2: The 'Gold Cup' Race at Ascot (1912)
 

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Main title. Fashionable spectators in an enclosure; horses in the paddock; the start and another shot of the horse race; the winning jockey and horse - Tidal Wave- being greeted and led in amongst the crowd; a shot of King George V and Queen Mary arriving at the Ascot racecourse in an open carriage.