Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The stated mission of the horseman's association was to "lease, own, control, manage and operated ground for giving public or private exhibitions of horse racing, and other similar sports and to hold, manage and operate racing contests, field games and any other outdoor entrainment of all kinds, to manage and control horse breeding clubs, horse ...
Whitaker is probably best remembered for his coverage of golf and horse racing. He covered thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown Events, golf's four major championships, the very first Super Bowl, championship boxing, the National Professional Soccer League in 1967, [49] the North American Soccer League a year later, and Major League Baseball.
The Thoroughbred Racing Associations formed in 1942 as the United States' entry into World War II created a potential halt to horse racing in the country, Alfred G. Vanderbilt Jr. began to develop the formation of a commission of racetracks. [2] At the time, Vanderbilt was the president of Pimlico and Belmont Park. [2]
The Las Vegas Park was a horse and automobile racing facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was built to be a horse racing facility and it held single races in NASCAR Grand National Series, AAA, and USAC Stock cars before it was demolished. [1] It opened as the Las Vegas Jockey Club. [1]
Believing the Thoroughbred was the best breed of horse and could pass on its superior traits to other breeds, in 1906 The Jockey Club of New York established the Breeding Bureau. Its purpose was to provide Thoroughbred stallions as sires that would produce a variety of top quality half-breed general purpose horses. [4]
Hollywood Park was a thoroughbred race course located in Inglewood, California, about 3 miles (5 km) from Los Angeles International Airport and adjacent to the Forum indoor arena. [1] [2] In 1994, the original Hollywood Park Casino was added to the racetrack complex. [1]
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American Thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. In 1955, the museum moved to its current location on Union Avenue near Saratoga Race Course , at which time inductions into the hall of fame began.
The first issue of the public The Blood-Horse was published May 11, 1929, and held Blue Larkspur as the cover image. The last of the original members that published The Blood-Horse was Thomas Piatt; A charter member in 1916, former VP of the old Thoroughbred Horse Association, and director of American Thoroughbred Breeders Association. He was ...