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Class 2 or Class 3 races worth £50,000 or more run between mid-October and the end of the season, or £40,000 or more between the start of the season and mid-October. Races worth £34,000 or more which are a course's most important race of the season or which have historical importance. All Regional Grand National races, and any Cross-Country ...
The highest profile National Hunt race is the Grand National, run at Aintree in April each year. The race is a different sort of contest from the Gold Cup: it is a Grade 3 race, it is run over a distance of more than 4 miles (6.4 km), there are up to 40 runners, the course at Aintree is essentially flat, and the horses are handicapped (the best ...
Cork Grand National Chase Cork: 3m 4f 4yo + Sphagnum November: T.A. Morris Memorial Mares Chase: Chase Clonmel: 2m 4f: 4yo + Pink In The Park November: Brown Lad Handicap Hurdle: Hurdle: Naas: 2m 4f: 4yo + The Busy Fool November: Irish EBF Mares INH Flat Race: Flat: Navan: 2m: 4–7yo Churchfield Sunset November: Tara Hurdle: Hurdle: Navan: 2m ...
National Hunt races in Great Britain (3 C, 206 P) I. National Hunt races in Ireland (120 P) This page was last edited on 29 April 2018, at 21:55 (UTC). Text is ...
Group One (G1) races may be run under handicap conditions in Australia, [3] but in Europe weight-for-age conditions always apply. [4] In the United States, Canada, Japan, South Africa, and British National Hunt racing "Grade I" is used instead; see List of British flat horse races. Race grading was introduced in North America in 1974. [5]
The National Hunt Challenge Cup is a National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run on the Old Course at Cheltenham over a distance of about 3 miles 6 furlongs (3 miles 5 furlongs and 201 yards, or 6,018 metres), and during its running there are twenty-three fences to be jumped.
National Hunt flat races, informally known as bumper races, are a type of flat racing but run under National Hunt racing rules in Britain and Ireland.. National Hunt flat races were created on 15 July 1891 when a conference between the stewards of the British and Irish National Hunt Committees decided to abolish the distinction between the hunter and handicap horses and created a new ...
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