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The Iowa Derby is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles (8.5 furlongs) on the dirt annually at Prairie Meadows Racetrack in Altoona, Iowa. The purse of the event is US$250,000.
The Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap is an American Grade III thoroughbred horse race held annually at the end of June at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, Iowa. The race is open to horses age three years and older and currently offers a purse of $300,000. Raced at a distance of 1 1 ⁄ 8 miles on dirt, from 1966 through 1973 it was run at 1 1 ...
The race was inaugurated in 1989 [1] at a distance of 1 mile in was run in late April. [1]However, the event was idle for five years from 1990 to 1994. [2] When the track administration resumed the event it was known as the Heartland Oaks and it was extended to the current distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles and scheduled in July. [1]
In ecology, a mesic habitat is a type of habitat with a well-balanced or moderate supply of moisture throughout the growing season (e.g., a mesic forest, temperate hardwood forest, or dry-mesic prairie). The term derives from the Greek mesos, meaning middle, indicating its relative moisture content between hydric (moist) and xeric (dry) habitats.
John Madson (1923 in Ames, Iowa – April 19, 1995 in Alton, Illinois) was a naturalist, conservationist, journalist, and freelancer who worked in the field of outdoor writing.
Prairie madness is not a clinical condition; rather, it is a pervasive subject in writings of fiction and non-fiction from the period to describe a fairly common phenomenon. It was described by Eugene Virgil Smalley in 1893: "an alarming amount of insanity occurs in the new Prairie States among farmers and their wives."
The Prairie Meadows grant, totaling $95,000, will allow Perry Lutheran Homes to increase the number of meal recipients, improve delivery logistics, and enhance community engagement through the ...
In the western portion of the prairie, the soil is a brown loess loam over calcareous clay. In hilly areas, the clay is covered by red and yellow sand from the Pliocene epoch. [ 4 ] The underlying clay, an identifying component of the Jackson Prairie Belt, shrinks and swells dramatically based on the amount of rainwater.