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# In 1655 Cromwell banned horse racing for six months, fearing Royalist agents
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/24-fevralia-1655-goda-kromvel-zapretil-skachki-na-6-mesiatsev/
- Published: 2020-02-24T18:06:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:06:22.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Mores, Society, People

On 24 February 1655 Cromwell banned horse racing for six months. This is generally put down to the Puritan course of the Lord Protector's government as a whole, though he himself feared that royalist agents were using race meetings as cover for their assemblies. But the ban remained in force for a very short time, since Cromwell himself was fond of the races.