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Desert Gold: race mare who won 19 races successive races during World War I; often raced against Gloaming; Desert Orchid: won King George four times and Cheltenham Gold Cup; Dr. Fager: "the Doctor"; set the world record at 1 mile on any surface, 1:32 1/5, and held it for more than 20 years. The only horse in American history who in 1968 won ...
Autódromo Las Paredes, San Rafael, Mendoza; Autódromo Luis Rubén Di Palma, Mar de Ajó, Buenos Aires [2]; Autódromo Mar y Valle, Trelew, Chubut [3]; Autódromo Martín Miguel de Güemes, Salta [2]
The 2005 Checker Auto Parts 500 was a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series stock car race held on November 13, 2005 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. Contested over 312 laps on the 1-mile (1.609 km) asphalt oval, it was the thirty-fifth race of the 2005 Nextel Cup Series season. Kyle Busch of Hendrick Motorsports won the race.
Race defeated; 27:26–1–0 Giles The First Austria-Hungary Br.h. 1860 St Giles x Lady Shrewsbury by Launcelot 1863 Continental St Leger (Baden Baden), 2nd by neck
At Phoenix, Mansell crashed during practice and was forced to sit out the race due to a back injury. At Indianapolis, he was leading the race with 16 laps to go when he was passed on a restart by Emerson Fittipaldi and Arie Luyendyk, and wound up third. He still won the Indy 500 Rookie of the Year award. Despite having missed the race at ...
At Phoenix, the first oval race of the season, both Penskes went off, while in Long Beach Tracy scored the first win for the PC-22. In Indianapolis , Fittipaldi qualified 9th (220.150 mph), [ 2 ] and won the event exploiting Mansell's inexperience on oval racing and Andretti's handling problems, after their dominating runs.
With only two races left, Sullivan had a commanding 25-point lead. At the second-to-last race of the season at Laguna Seca, Sullivan pulled out a hat trick by winning the pole, leading the most laps, and winning the race. With still one race left, Sullivan clinched the 1988 CART title, holding an insurmountable 35-point lead.
The 1996 Mountain Dew Southern 500, the 47th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on September 1, 1996 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. Contested at 367 laps on the 1.366 mile (2.198 km) speedway, it was the 23rd race of the 1996 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season.