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British Champions Day is a thoroughbred horse race meeting held at Ascot Racecourse in October each year since 2011, which acts as the end of season highlight fixture of British flat racing. It is the culmination of the British Champions Series and features the finals of the five divisions of the series, together with a valuable one-mile ...
A National Hunt (NH) Pattern of important races was first recognized in 1964 when the Horserace Betting Levy Board made a grant of £64,000 to fund a "prestige race allocation" split between the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Grand National.
The 2023 English cricket season began on 6 April 2023 and finished on 29 September 2023. [ 1 ] It was the 123rd season in which the County Championship [ 2 ] has been an official competition and featured First-Class , List-A and Twenty20 cricket competitions throughout England and Wales.
The Champion Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 1 mile 1 furlong and 212 yards (2,004 metres), and it is scheduled to take place as part of British Champions Day each year in October.
The Stayers' Hurdle, which first ran in 1912, is the oldest race from the Cheltenham festival that is currently a championship race. The Gold Cup, established in 1924, was originally a supporting race for the County Hurdle. This was the main event of the first day but that quickly changed, and in the following seasons it became a championship race.
The 2022 English cricket season began on 7 April 2022 and finished on 29 September 2022. [1] It was the 122nd season in which the County Championship [ 2 ] has been an official competition and features First-Class , List-A and Twenty20 cricket competitions throughout England and Wales.
The 2021 English cricket season began on 4 April and finished on 3 October 2021. [1] It was the 121st season in which the County Championship [ 2 ] has been an official competition and featured First-Class , List-A and Twenty20 cricket competitions throughout England and Wales.
The British Champions Series is a series of 35 top British flat races, which culminates in a day-long festival of championship races, known as British Champions Day.It was inaugurated in the 2011 season to draw together some of Britain's key flat races into a meaningful championship, with the hope of generating coverage and stimulating interest among the more casual sports fan. [1]