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Statistics on the year's record of every racehorse, racehorse owner, racehorse trainer, and racehorse breeder are also part of the content along with track speed records and world records. Articles about subjects connected with the racing industry as well as analyzing trends and developments from the year are also included.
Horses arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788 along with the earliest colonists. [67] Although horses of part-Thoroughbred blood were imported into Australia during the late 18th century, it is thought that the first pureblood Thoroughbred was a stallion named Northumberland who was imported from England in 1802 as a coach horse sire ...
Prospect Point was bred in Kentucky by Forest Retreat Farms and Lloyd I. Miller. [2] He was sired by First Dawn, an unraced minor stallion bred by the great Ogden Phipps.His paternal granddam, Lovely Morning, was a half sister to American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horses and Grade I winners Successor and Bold Lad. [3]
This weight varies depending on the horse's age, its sex, the race distance and the month of the year. Weight for age races are usually Group 1 races, races of the highest quality. It is a form of handicapping for horse racing, but within the horse racing industry is not referred to as handicap, which is reserved for more general handicapping.
The track's first thoroughbred race occurred on May 31, 1969. [10] It attracted 15,396 spectators who bet $1,160,154. [11] Thoroughbred racing at Liberty Bell Park ended when Keystone Park opened in November 1974. [12] On February 6, 1971, a track-record 24,988 fans turned out to watch thoroughbred races at Liberty Bell Park.
The Hopeful Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.Open to two-year-old horses, the Hopeful is the first Grade I stakes for two-year-olds each season and historically has been a showcase for some of the top East Coast horses at that age group.
The average is stated as a value of 1.00. The AEI is calculated for each year a horse has offspring racing and can be averaged for all years that horse has had first generation descendants on the track. [2] The AEI can be used for additional comparisons, such as the composite AEI of a sire or damsire based on all of his progeny.
Each year the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association releases a list of stakes for thoroughbred horses. The Committee grades stakes and handicaps into three grades: Grade I, Grade II and Grade III. The largest races are Grade I. The committee uses as criteria for the grading: