July 18, 2025
Newmarket Chess Sculpture Trail Launch
National Horseracing Museum
Join us on Saturday 19th July for the exciting launch of the town’s Chess Sculpture Trail.
The Memorial stands at the upper end of the High Street. It is an elaborate stone water trough, commemorating Sir Daniel Cooper, one of Newmarket’s most popular sporting aristocrats and benefactors, who died in 1909 at his second home in London.
He was brought by special train to Newmarket, where his ashes were interred at Newmarket Cemetery, just across the road.