Animal Racing

When a horse wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes.

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Soccer is the most attended sport in the world but only while the Fifa World Cup is on. Nascar has the largest stadiums but are not always sold out, daytona 500 is the biggest stadium in racing, in soccer a staduim in Brazil is the largest staduim that at maximum can host nearly 250,000 people.

Back in the old days, information was posted on chalk boards. They would underline the favorite and thus it became known as the "chalk".

Siena Italy. It is the home of the Palio Di Siena, which takes place twice a year, on July 2 and August 16th.

Your winning ticket would return $ 62.00, or $42 profit on your $ 20 wager.

Centennial Turf Club (AKA Centennial Race Track) was on the west side of the Platte River between Belleview and Littleton Blvd. If you continued south on Federal at Belleview, you'd drive right into its parking lot. The parking lot was on the west and south sides of the grandstand, the track itself -- a mile long smooth dirt oval oriented north-south -- was to the east of the grandstand, and the stables were on the east side of the track, extending to the river.

The oldest horse in the world that is on record is 51 years old.

Scott # 1528 Most used US postage stamps are worth 20 cents, the minimum amount required to catalog and stock the stamps. Unused will always be worth at least their face value. This stamp can cost you 25 cents mint. Special cancellations and different values are likely to be worth more. Consult a postage stamp catalog, usually available at your local library for exact identification and catalog values.

It was in 1920s that "Modern Horse Racing" involving a betting system made its debut. In 1922, the Chosun Racing Club, the nation's first-ever authorized horse racing club, was established to make horse racing more systematic and better organized. In 1923, the pari-mutuel betting system was officially adopted for the first time in Korea. The Sinseol-dong racecourse opened in 1928 and incorporated racing clubs were allowed to have their own racecourses.

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lol most people would definitely not bet on a 50-1 because it's about the chances of you pulling a penny out of a jar of fifty nickles. Mine that Bird one this years Kty Derby, but his chances were not precisely correct. A horse's odds come from people betting, the more people bet on a horse, the more chances it has of winnig, so people think.

Camel racing is legal in the USA, I have included a link of one such event.

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They run odd years for southern and even years for northern.

yes, horses can die in a horse race but that is very very rare. They are more likely to die from colic sitting in a barn.

Mostly they die to over working their body and bones 8 out of 10 of those deaths are fillies b/c they just aren't as strong as the colts. Usually to leg injuries.

They can also die by some other common racehorse diseases such as blood filling their stomach as they run, and sometimes if a horse runs to hard (but very very rare) its heart will burst.

If you are asking about the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama--no, it was designed as a motorsport speedway, and has always been used as one.

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In horse racing 'Stone Ginger' means a sure bet or certainty. This is due to a racing stallion in New Zealand that won every race he entered.

It really depends on what part of racing they are involved in. A groom certainly does not have the finances of an owner that has a barn full of well-bred, expensive horses. But at the top, the owners usually have money. Thoroughbred racing is a very expensive sport. It is usually exclusive to people with very 'deep pockets'. But with the advent of TV and motion pictures the 'King of Sports' can be enjoyed be virtually everybody.

I know there are 15 tracks in Ireland,There are something like 300 races a year,I should know,I did a repord on Ireland.

The basic set up for a sled dog team is no more than 22 dogs in pairs with individual harnesses and booties. The harnesses are strapped to tuglines, which is attached to a gangline for the musher in the sled. There are many rules for dog sled racing, including mandatory check ins at every stop, having the provided list of mandatory items, and no outside assistance.

Mostly protein. A steak dinner or a peanut butter sandwich are much easier to obtain and much less gross.

The Canadian sport horse was bred shortly after World War I. The major portion of the horses in Canada during War were shipped to Europe for the war efforts. Those horses never returned back to Canada. This severally limited and thinned the breeding stock. After the war, stallions from England were made available for the country side stock of Canada. This help to produce a better and more refined animal. The thin numbers to start off with resulted in this bred not being recognized and named a breed until 1970.