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Meet the players. Alan Francis, from Defiance, Ohio, is horseshoe pitching’s undisputed king. He won his first world tournament in 1989 and has dominated the sport ever since.
The track hosts Thoroughbred flat racing. It is one of two horse racing venues currently active in Illinois, and the only one outside the Chicago, Illinois metro area. The track also featured Standardbred harness racing, but discontinued it in 1999. [1] View of the spectator stands at Fairmount Park Horse Race Track in Collinsville, Illinois
In the United States, the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, commonly known as the Triple Crown, is a series of horse races for three-year-old Thoroughbreds, consisting of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes. The three races were inaugurated in different years, the last being the Kentucky Derby in 1875.
Horseshoe pitching contest at the annual field day of the FSA farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona. Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at ...
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]
Alan Francis is a horseshoes pitcher from Defiance, Ohio. He has won the World Horseshoe Championship 28 times, in 1989, 1993, 1995–1999, 2001, 2003–2010, 2012–2019 and 2021–2024. That is the most anyone has won it (2nd place belongs to Ted Allen who has won 10).
Horseshoes are commonly made of steel, and are nailed to the underside of the hoof. A variety of horseshoes, including aluminum racing plates (light or dark); there is also a variety of oxshoes at the lower right. A horseshoe is a product designed to protect a horse hoof from wear.
Point-to-point – Form of horse racing Steeplechase – Horse race form originally from Ireland, featuring jumps over fence and ditch obstacles Thoroughbred horse racing – Sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets