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The horse show thereafter expanded, and was held annually in Branchville, New Jersey, from 1933 to 1975, and then from 1976 to the present at its current location in Augusta, New Jersey. The fair was initially called the Sussex County Horse Show from 1936 to 1940, and then as the Sussex County Farm and Horse Show from 1940 to 1999.
The New Jersey State Fair/Sussex County Farm and Horse Show kicks off at 5 p.m. Friday. Organizers say they've got a few changes in store.
The Sussex County Farm and Horse Show is a ten-day agricultural fair that is held at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta, New Jersey every August and attracts approximately 220,000 attendees annually. It has been run as a non-profit organization since 1940.
The first New Jersey state fair that took place at the Meadowlands occurred in 1986 as a six-day event as said on their website. Now the fair spans just over two weeks as last year's attendance ...
Augusta is the home of the New Jersey State Fair and the Sussex County Farm and Horse Show. Skylands Park, a 4,300-seat ballpark, was home to the New Jersey Cardinals of the New York–Penn League from 1993 to 2005, and the Sussex Skyhawks of the Can-Am League from 2006 to 2010.
The Sussex County Farm and Horse Show in the Augusta of Frankford Township, which has operated since 1940, has been known as the New Jersey State Fair since 1999. [191] The fair grounds is also host to the Sussex County Poultry Fanciers Spring and Fall shows.
New Jersey had 125 racing days in 2002, compared to 51 days at Monmouth Park this year, the only thoroughbred meet remaining in the state, aside from a handful of turf racing days at the Meadowlands.
The first sled dog race to feature a codified set of rules was the All-Alaska Sweepstakes, which first took place in 1908. This was followed in 1917 by the American Dog Derby, which was the first sled dog race outside Alaska or the Yukon. [1] In 1929 the Laconia World Championship Sled Dog Race" was first held in the city of Laconia, New Hampshire.