Racing Calendar
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Racing Calendar is the official horseracing publication of the Jockey Club.
Its first predecessor came when John Cheny (fl.1727–1750) published the first calendar in 1727, titled An Historical List of Horse-Matches Run,https://worldcat.org/title/49935186 and maintained annual publication until his death in 1750.Wray Vamplew, ‘Cheny, John (fl. 1727–1750)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62663, accessed 8 February 2023] Reginald Heber took over publication in 1751, with his final volume being published in 1768. Benjamin Walker kept the publication going for two more years.{{Cite book |last=Binns |first=Matthew |title=Thoroughbred Breeding: Pedigree Theories and the Science of Genetics |last2=Morris |first2=Tony |publisher=J.A. Allen an imprint of the Crowood Press |year=2010 |isbn=9780851319353}} Several other competing calendars appeared after Cheny's death, by various publishers,{{cite web|url=http://www.nhrm.co.uk/Some_Museum_Treasures/The_18thC_Match_Book.aspx|title=Welcome to the National Horseracing Museum|publisher=nhrm.co.uk|access-date=13 Aug 2015}} including John Pond's Sporting Kalendar, published 1751–1757, and William Tuting and Thomas Fawconer's The Sporting Calendar, published until 1772.
In 1773, James Weatherby, who in 1770 had been appointed at Keeper of the Math Book for the Jockey Club, began publishing the Racing Calendar.{{cite book|title=Horse People: Thoroughbred Culture in Lexington and Newmarket|author=Cassidy, R.|date=2007|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=9780801887031|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IhoBKwhTFo4C&pg=PA5|page=5|access-date=13 Aug 2015}} His nephew, also James Weatherby, helped with the publishing, establishing the family business of Weatherbys, which continued to own and publish the calendar until 1902 when the Jockey Club finally purchased it.{{cite book|title=Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice|author1=Nauright, J.|author2=Parrish, C.|date=2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781598843002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IkLYDgTnMxEC&pg=RA1-PA118|pages=1–118|access-date=13 Aug 2015}}