(Placename) a gorge of the Colorado River in N Arizona, extending from its junction with the Little Colorado River to Lake Mead; cut by vertical river erosion through the multicoloured strata of a high plateau; partly contained in theGrand Canyon National Park,covering 2610 sq km (1008 sq ...
Got off the mark for the campaign at Newbury and a lively outsider.Jockey: Wayne Hutchinson 20- 1 25: CORNISH SETT Came 12th here last year and ran a blinder to finish second in the Welsh National at Chepstow. Not a great surprise to see him finish in the first half dozen.Jockey: ...
Normally In a handicap race of 16 runners or more, bookmakers will payout each-way bets on the first 4 finishers. However for the Grand National many will be paying on additional places, so it is well worth shopping around to see which bookmakers are providing the best terms and odds. ...
One of the most difficult fences on the course, The Chair is 5 feet 2 inches high but is preceded by a 6 ft wide ditch, and Grand National Runners only jump this once, on the first lap. The fence was originally the location where a distance judge sat in the earliest days of the ra...
Given this is the Grand National with 40 runners, where luck or the lack of it, can play a huge role in getting a clear run round the course, Tiger Roll, currently priced at 4/1, is a laughable price. Or not? The 9 pound hike in the weights does appear to be rather fair, parti...
"This year the excitement will reach new heights as America's best middle distance runners vie for the honor of representing Team USA at a global championship."The field of professional athletes will be competing for a first place prize of $10,000 for each national champion, the largest ...
“There are no broad statistics on the number of runners who do R2R or R2R2R runs. Everyone agrees that the number is increasing.” I was quoted in the article: “When I started, only a handful of pretty fit and experienced runners were doing the canyon runs. Now the word’s getting...
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It later was extended to bridge and various sports, where it has different meanings: in baseball, a home run hit with runners on all the bases, resulting in four runs for the team; in tennis, winning all four national championships in a single calendar year; in golf, winning all four ...
The National Hunt meeting, as it was known then, was washed out by rain and snow, postponed for a week, and then finally abandoned after the first day because of waterlogging. And that year, 1937, was also the last occasion on which there were no Irish-trained runners in the Grand ...