Members of the aristocracy and landowning classes played a key role throughout the nineteenth century in the promotion and running of horse racing. They were able to use racing as means of enhancing their social status and maintaining their prestige, both locally and nationally. Their influence ...
Thoroughbred horse racingis a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses and is arguably the most popular form of horse racing. Races are run in two types of distances: sprints and routes. A sprint is anything one mile or less and a route is anything over a m...
There are many top places for horse riding in Dubai. You can go for simply horse riding or take equestrian coaching classes in Dubai. These places, however, also have races, dressage, endurance racing and show jumping. This blog provides a list of best places for horse riding in Dubai. Je...
My summer was hectic. I have no idea how many summers I have left, and I had a need to take some trips to see the many of the great friends I had made in racing. When Lou Gehrig gave his famous going-away speech, despite having one of the meanest diseases on the planet, he said...
He could often be seen carrying a Racing Form in his back pocket to classes and reading the "sheets" at lunch time. While wagering $2 show bets through his family, he graduated to win and place wagers and then dabbled in $5 exacta boxes while mentored by an old family friend. Two...
The final class of the day in the Castle ring was the first of the LeMieux 2* classes. Kara Whiteway came out on top of the hotly contested 1.30 class out of 74 combinations, with a time of 21.92 just under a second ahead of Ireland’s Sven Headley and Philip Spivey in third. Photo...
Order the equipment concerned to be replaced or removed; or Withdraw the horse from the race. 2 Balloting 2.1 Where the size of a field in any race has exceeded the limit, the order of Emergency Acceptors will be determined by the Panel of Handicappers in accordance with the conditions...
The ratings enable users to easily see which horses sire runners which rank among the top 8% of earners, calculated on an annual basis for a seven-year period, for three classes of runners, in three regions, and at ages two, three, four, and five and up. For a fuller explanation of...
An interactive video horse-race game comprising data storage and retrieval means; at least one pre-recorded video track of a horse-race stored in the data storage and retrieval means; at least one pre-recorded audio track of a horse-race stored in the data storage and retrieval means; where...
1. A horse racing game comprising, in combination: a. a game board having inscribed thereon a simulated racetrack divided into a plurality of lanes corresponding to a number of post positions, said plurality of lanes being divided by a plurality of perpendicular lines into furlong distances; b....