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The Oaks Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old fillies. It is run at Epsom Downs over a distance of 1 mile, 4 furlongs and 6 yards (2,420 metres), about 1½ miles, and it is scheduled to take place each year in late May or early June.
The British Classics are five long-standing Group 1 horse races run during the traditional flat racing season. [1] They are restricted to three-year-old horses and traditionally represent the pinnacle of achievement for racehorses against their own age group. As such, victory in any classic marks a horse as amongst the very best of a generation.
Kiplingcotes is a small hamlet close to Market Weighton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.The race starts near the former Kiplingcotes railway station and runs for 4.5 miles (7.2 km), finishing at Londesborough Wold Farm.
1962: Larkspur wins at odds of 22/1 after seven horses are bought down nearing Tattenham Corner; one horse is killed and four jockeys are detained in hospital. 1967: Starting stalls used for the first time. 1989: The runner-up Terimon is the longest-priced horse to finish placed in the Derby, at odds of 500/1.
A gross profit tax is levied on all UK based bookmakers which is payable to the exchequer, and a separate sum is agreed and collected by the Horserace Betting Levy Board, a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, who use the funds for race prize money and the improvement of horse racing. [51]
The 1982 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes was a horse race held at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday 24 July 1982. It was the 32nd running of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes . The winner was Tony Ward's Kalaglow , a four-year-old grey colt trained at Pulborough in West Sussex by Guy Harwood and ridden by the British jockey ...
Pony racing took place in 1949 and point-to-point racing was staged between 1960 and 1963: Croxton Park Racecourse [20] Leicestershire: England: Mixed: Bef. 1821: 2 April 1914: Only Flat and hurdle races were run: Derby Racecourse: Derbyshire: England: by 1707: 9 August 1939: Three different venues, the last of which opened in 1848.
Rossa Ryan (born July 2000) is a Group 1 winning Irish jockey who competes in flat racing and is based in Britain. He was the British All-Weather Champion Jockey of the 2023-24 season. He was the British All-Weather Champion Jockey of the 2023-24 season.