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2. Horse tack - Wikipedia

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   This equipment includes such items as saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, and harnesses. Equipping a horse is often referred to as tacking up, and involves putting the tack equipment on the horse. A room to store such equipment, usually near or in a stable, is a tack room.

3. Sulky - Wikipedia

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   The modern racing sulky has shafts that extend in a continuous bow behind the driver's seat, with wire-spoked "bike" wheels and inflated tyres. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A sulky is frequently called a "bike". Historically, sulkies were built for trotting matches and made from wood with very tall wheels and almost no body, just a simple frame supporting a ...

4. List of equestrian sports - Wikipedia

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   Flat racing – Equestrian sport; Harness racing – A form of horse racing that uses a two-wheeled cart; Point-to-point – Form of horse racing; Steeplechase – Horse race form originally from Ireland, featuring jumps over fence and ditch obstacles

5. Blinkers (horse tack) - Wikipedia

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   Blinkers, also known as blinders, blinds and winkers, are a part of horse harness and tack which limits a horse's field of vision—blocking vision to the sides, the rear, or both. [1]: 56 [2] Blinkers are usually seen in horse driving and in horse racing (both harness and ridden), but rarely in horse riding. [3]: 20

6. Horse racing - Wikipedia

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   Steeplechase racing at Deauville Harness racing in Adelaide Wild Horse racing in Palio di Legnano 2013. Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

7. Track surface - Wikipedia

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   The track surface of a horse racing track refers to the material of which the track is made. There are three types of track surfaces used in modern horse racing. [1] These are: Turf, the most common track surface in Europe; Dirt, the most common track surface in the US