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The list of American and Canadian Graded races is a list of Thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada that meet the graded stakes standards maintained by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association [1] and the Jockey Club of Canada. A specific grade level (I, II, III or listed) is then ...
Hawthorne Race Course is a racetrack for horse racing in Stickney, Illinois, near Chicago. The oldest continually run family-owned racetrack in North America, in 2009 the Horseplayers Association of North America introduced a rating system for 65 Thoroughbred racetracks in North America. Of the top ten, Hawthorne was ranked No. 8.
Pages in category "Horse races in Illinois" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In 2023, the Japan Cup in association with Longines was named the World's Best Horse Race. Additionally, the IFHA releases the top 100 Group/Grade 1 races each year. [2] The Longines World's Best Jockey [3] is named each December. The top 100 Group 1 and Grade 1 races serve as the base of this annual competition to recognize top jockeys ...
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. The track opened in 1925. The racing surface is a one-mile (1.6 km) dirt oval, with straight chutes for six furlong and 1¼ mile races.
Arlington International was the site of the first thoroughbred race with a million-dollar purse in 1981. [ citation needed ] The premier event at Arlington Park was the International Festival of Racing, held in early August, which featured three Grade 1 races on turf: the Arlington Million Stakes , Beverly D. Stakes and Secretariat Stakes .
During renovations for the 1952 season, a fire in the grandstands damaged Lincoln Fields and prevented its re-opening. The 1952–53 race meetings were once again shifted to Hawthorne Race Course. But in 1954, thoroughbred racing returned to the Crete homegrounds and Lincoln Fields celebrated its first running since 1942. [citation needed]
In Thoroughbred racing, a claiming race is a type of horse race in which the horses are all for sale at a specified claiming price until shortly before the race. In the hierarchy of horse races, based on the quality of the horses that compete, claiming races are at the bottom, below maiden races (races for horses that have never won a race).