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british sport








                ■      sports: tennis, cricket, golf, rugby, hockey and of course football, which became very popular
                       among the porteños.In 1892 the Santiago Wanderers Sports Club was formed, the oldest in Chile

                       still in activity, founded by Chileans under the British influence; in 1895 the Valparaiso Wanderers
                       was born.Another of the customs inherited from the English was the English-style horse races
                       that were held in Placilla, forming the Valparaíso Spring Meeting association in 1865. The way of

                       playing could be European, but then the Chilean was celebrated with country parties, typical local

                       food and lots of alcohol. On one occasion the Chilean horse Huemul beat the British Kentucky and
                       the newspaper El Progreso published a burlesque: "Many of the most respectable Englishmen in

                       this port are heavily attacked by spleen, a tremendous disease that only the children of nebulous
                       England suffer from."
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