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Racecards are often given in newspapers. Also known as a race book (form guide in Australia), which in this case is a small booklet issued for use at a race meeting. A typical racecard lists information not only about the horse's name, but also its age and the weight it has to carry in the race.
Cartoon by John Tenniel published following Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.The phrase itself came into use more than 100 years later. "Playing the race card" is an idiomatic phrase that refers to the exploitation by someone of either racist or anti-racist attitudes in the audience in order to gain an advantage.
Enable (foaled 12 February 2014) is a champion British Thoroughbred racehorse who won 15 of her 19 races, including 11 Group One races. Her biggest wins include the Breeders' Cup Turf, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Epsom Oaks, Irish Oaks, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Eclipse Stakes and Yorkshire Oaks.
The Daytona 500 has NASCAR’s most unusual — and complicated — qualifying format. There are nine drivers — the most since 2015 — vying for those spots: Anthony Alfredo, Justin Allgaier ...
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Between 2009 and 2019, the world's ppopulation grew from 6.9 to 7.8 billion. And we all spent more on travel during this time: Each traveler laid out $536 in hotels, restaurants, and transport per ...
This month, Congress will vote on a bill to eliminate almost all of the funding for popular credit card reward programs like cash back and travel points. This legislation would allow retailers to...
Of the world's 100 best-selling daily newspapers, 74 are published in Asia—with China, Japan and India accounting for 62 of those. Sales of newspapers rose in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East, but fell in other regions of the world, including Western Europe, where the proliferation of free dailies helped bolster overall circulation ...