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The Michigan Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame was founded in the late 1980s to honor individuals and horses from the US state of Michigan. The intent of this hall of fame is to recognize those who have made significant contributions to the Association and have impacted the Quarter Horse breed.
A volunteer mounted deputy known for her kindness and compassion died after she was thrown from her horse while working a county fair, Michigan cops say.. The incident reportedly happened on ...
Hazel Park Raceway, located in Hazel Park, Michigan, in the metropolitan Detroit area, was a horse race track. From 1949 it offered live thoroughbred racing every Friday and Saturday night May through mid-September, and also offered harness racing. Beginning in 1996, it offered simulcast wagering seven days a week all year long on thoroughbred ...
Harold Howard owned a strawberry farm in Remus, Michigan, and plowed his land with draft horses. Always on the lookout for "an eye-catching horse that could do it all", in 1966 he came across an ad in Quarter Horse Journal for Phillips' sale that included a photo of Eternal Sun. Howard drove to Texas and was the top bidder for the stallion.
First run in 1950, its popularity saw the 1958 edition of the Michigan Mile And One-Eighth Handicap draw the largest crowd in the racetrack's history. [1] That 1958 race was won by E. P. Taylor's Nearctic , a future Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee and sire of the supersire Northern Dancer .
Sports Creek Raceway was a harness racing track located on a 100-acre site near Swartz Creek, Michigan. [1] The track opened in 1986, eventually employing 100 workers on live racing days and 40 workers for simulcasting. In 2013, Sports Creek had $676,106 in live wagering and $15.3 million in simulcast wagering. [2]
The last horse races on the flat at DRC were run in 1998. In May 1998 Ladbroke announced the sale of Detroit Race Course. Based on the new 1996 law, which authorized betting at tracks for simulcast events, Millennium, the new owners, used the complex as a venue for viewing simulcast video racing, with associated betting, into 1999.
November 28 - In the famous Snow Bowl game, Michigan defeated Ohio State, 9–3, in a blizzard at Ohio Stadium with temperature of 10 degrees above zero, on an icy field, and with winds gusting over 30 miles per hour. Michigan did not get a first down or complete a pass, punted 24 times, but won on a touchdown and a safety, both off blocked punts.