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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Weight throw (25 lb or 11.3 kg) 28.43 m (93 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) Conor McCullough: Chaminade High School: West Hills, California Fort Washington Avenue Armory: New Balance Nationals: March 15, 2009 [105] Weight throw (32 lb or 14.5 kg) 20.02 m (65 ft 8 in) Davis Fraker: McIntosh High School: Peachtree City, Georgia: Spartanburg, South Carolina ...
A point to point race. A point-to-point is a form of horse racing over fences for hunting horses and amateur riders. In Ireland, where the sport is open to licensed professional trainers, many of the horses will appear in these races before they compete in National Hunt races. Consequently, the Irish point-to-point tends to be used as a nursery ...
The start of the 2014 Preakness Stakes, an American Thoroughbred horse race. Thoroughbred racing is a sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport – flat racing and jump racing, the latter known as National Hunt racing in the UK and steeplechasing in