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Day 1 schedule, racecard and all the action as Cheltenham 2023 gets underway
Dee Racing Syndicate 16/1 9m 21.7s 2004: Amberleigh House: 12 10-10 Graham Lee: Ginger McCain: Halewood Int. Ltd 16/1 9m 20.3s 2005: Hedgehunter: 9 11-01 Ruby Walsh: Willie Mullins: Trevor Hemmings: 7/1 F 9m 20.8s 2006: Numbersixvalverde: 10 10-08 Niall Madden: Martin Brassil Bernard Carroll 11/1 9m 41.0s 2007: Silver Birch: 10 10-06 Robbie Power
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 programme would later be expanded to run for 60 minutes. The programme aired every Saturday and was shown regardless of whether Channel 4 was televising horse racing later that day. The programme also provided tips and advice for the forthcoming day's racing. The show featured contributions from a panel of racing pundits.
A National Hunt (NH) Pattern of important races was first recognized in 1964 when the Horserace Betting Levy Board made a grant of £64,000 to fund a "prestige race allocation" split between the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Grand National.
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 BBC had scaled back its horse racing in recent years, gradually losing more and more events to Channel 4. 2013. 1 January – Channel 4 takes over as the exclusive terrestrial TV home of all horse racing in the UK. [15] The BBC had scaled back its horse racing in recent years, gradually losing more and more events to Channel 4.