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Horse racing in Ruidoso Downs canceled, moved to Albuquerque due to New Mexico wildfire and flood damages.
The 2007 races were affected by a national outbreak of horse flu. [5] The 2009 event attracted a crowd estimated at around 7,000, requiring 20 extra police to be temporarily posted to the small town. [6] The 2010 races were cancelled, the first cancellation in the events history of 128 years, due to flooding. [7]
The reason for the change was said to be that ratings had dipped for most of the big meetings that used to be broadcast on the BBC up to 2012 since the move to Channel 4. Under the new deal ITV will show a minimum of 40 days of horse racing live on ITV , with a further 60 days a year live on ITV4 , with ITV Sport also producing their own ITV ...
There were two further meetings in 1914, but the course was now in financial difficulty and receivers had already been appointed. The outbreak of war meant the September 1914 meeting was cancelled. Racing did return for three days in 1915, although one day only attracted 15 runners for six races. The final meeting took place on 26 April 1915. [1]
Laytown Racecourse is a horse racing venue on the beach at Laytown, County Meath, Ireland. Laytown is unique in the Irish racing calendar as it is the only race event run on a beach under the Rules of Racing. The first recorded race meeting in Laytown was in 1868. The races take place on the strand for one day every September.
Doncaster has also taken over events whose traditional homes have closed, such as the Lincoln Handicap in 1965. More history was made at Doncaster in 1992 when it staged the first ever Sunday meeting on a British racecourse. A crowd of 23,000 turned up despite the absence of betting. The racecourse is used for other functions.
The meeting had initially been postponed to April, but when a case of the disease was confirmed locally, putting the racecourse within an exclusion zone, all racing had to be called off. [10] In 2008, the second day of the festival was cancelled on safety grounds due to heavy storms making the marquees in the tented hospitality area unsafe.
Global events, meetings and symposiums are being canceled in droves as a precautionary measure to help contain the coronavirus pandemic. Biogen Inc (NASDAQ: BIIB) executives attended a conference ...