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Ireland has a rich history of horse racing; point to pointing originated there, and even today, jump racing is more popular than racing on the flat. As a result, every year Irish horse racing fans travel in huge numbers to the highlight event of the National Hunt calendar, the Cheltenham Festival , and in recent years Irish owned or bred horses ...
The Jockey Club is the largest commercial horse racing organisation in the United Kingdom. It owns 15 of Britain's famous racecourses, including Aintree , Cheltenham , Epsom Downs and both the Rowley Mile and July Course in Newmarket , amongst other horse racing assets such as the National Stud , and the property and land management company ...
Horse racing museums and halls of fame (7 C, 17 P) Pages in category "History of horse racing" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
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Humans appear to have long expressed a desire to know which horse or horses were the fastest, and horse racing has ancient roots. Gambling on horse races appears to go hand-in hand with racing and has a long history as well. Thoroughbreds have the pre-eminent reputation as a racing breed, but other breeds also race.
The BBC broadcast some of the key moments in the history of British horse racing, such as Red Rum winning his third Grand National and the 1967 victory of Foinavon in the same race after most of the field fell at the same fence. Channel 4's covered the sport for more than thirty years.
8 March – Racing TV launches an international racing channel Racing World with its output focussed on coverage from the United States. Consequently, Racing TV now concentrates on UK horse racing. [11] 2007. 28 January – The final edition of Grandstand is broadcast. Racing had been a regular feature of the programme, and alternated with ...
† Designates a horse that won American Horse of the Year in the same year they won the Derby. ‡ Designates a horse that was inducted in subsequent years into the National Racing Hall of Fame . ^ The race was timed to 1 ⁄ 4 second from 1875 to 1905, to 1 ⁄ 5 second from 1906 to 2000, and to 0.01 second since 2001.