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Soon after, a new one-mile (1.6 km) racing strip was built around the existing 5/8's mile oval. But in 1991, the Illinois Racing Board took away the racetrack's thoroughbred dates, making Balmoral Park an exclusive harness racing facility. By 1993, Balmoral Park became a national leader in the use of standardized saddle pads.
Balmoral Park can mean: Balmoral Park, Illinois, a horse racing track in Crete, Illinois; Balmoral Park, Lisburn, an exhibition and business park in Lisburn, ...
Tom Durkin (born November 30, 1950) is a semi-retired American sportscaster and public address announcer specializing in Thoroughbred horse racing.He was the race caller for NBC Sports from 1984 through 2010 and served as announcer for the New York Racing Association from 1990 until retiring in 2014.
The Grand Slam of Thoroughbred racing is an informal name for winning four major Thoroughbred horse races in one season in the United States. The term has been applied to two configurations of races, both of which include the races of the Triple Crown —the Kentucky Derby , Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes —and either the Travers Stakes ...
The Sunshine Millions is a series of American races for thoroughbred horses held in January at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California or at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. The brainchild of prominent horseman Frank Stronach , when it first began, half of the eight Sunshine Millions races are run at one track and half at the other.
Monmouth Park’s stakes schedule was to be worth $8.05 million in the track’s 79 th summer of racing, with 48 stakes races, including 10 graded stakes. The Haskell is now the track's only Grade ...
The United Nations Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds and older run over a distance of one and three-eighth miles on the turf held annually in July at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. The event currently offers a purse of $600,000.
Race distances are often given to the nearest furlong: e.g. The Derby's exact distance is 1 mile 4 furlongs and 6 yards, but it is called a 1 mile 4 furlong race. The races in bold are run on an all-weather surface. Races are run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket unless 'Newmarket (July)' is written, in which the July Course is used.