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The horse Blue Warrior strayed and fell into Kempton Park's centre-course lake having jumped before the start of the 19.20 on 14 January 2009. The rescue operation to get the horse out of the lake caused the race to be delayed by 15 minutes, with the horse rescued and sustaining a minor cut to his leg. [8]
Turffontein (Turf) 3-Year-Old Fillies Level Weights 1800m R 1 000,000 April Empress Club Stakes Turffontein (Turf) Fillies and Mares WFA 1600m R 1 000,000 April Premier's Champions Challenge Turffontein (Turf) All Horses Conditions 2000m R 4 000,000 April South African Derby: Turffontein (Turf) 3-Year-Olds Level Weights 2450m R 2 000,000 April
Turffontein Racecourse is a race track in South Africa for Thoroughbred horse racing founded in 1887 at Turffontein, Gauteng by the Johannesburg Turf Club. The facility has both an inner and outer grass track. The racecourse is host to the Group One South African Derby and November's Summer Cup.
The race was first run in 1949, but in 1988 it was rebranded as the Racing Post Chase and increased in value. The sponsorship by the Racing Post continued until 2011. In the 2012 the sponsorship was taken over by rival weekend newspaper Racing Plus who backed the race until 2013, and in 2014 the sponsorship passed to BetBright .
The winner of the first, Southern Hero, remains the race's oldest ever winner. After the war the racecourse re-opened, and the event returned in 1947 on a new date – Boxing Day . The King George VI Chase is now the second most prestigious chase in England, surpassed only by the Cheltenham Gold Cup .
Known as The Horse Racing Channel before launch, [3] [4] [5] Racing UK soft-launched on 29 May 2004 on the Sky Digital channel iSports TV. [6] Two months later on 16 July, the network entered into a partnership with Irish sports broadcaster Setanta Sports to officially launch the network in September, where Setanta would be the channel's broadcast partner and distributor.
NASCAR Xfinity Series at Homestead TV schedule, start time for Credit One NASCAR AMEX Credit Card 300 Green Flag Time: Approx. 3 p.m. CT Saturday Track: Homestead-Miami Speedway (1.5-mile oval) in ...
The Kempton Mares' Hurdle, run under the sponsored title of the Racing TV Mares' Hurdle, is a Listed National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to mares aged four years or older. It is run at Kempton over a distance of about 3 miles and 110 yards (4,929 metres), and during its running there are twelve hurdles to be jumped.