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Pages in category "Horse racing meetings" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Auckland Cup Week; Australian Turf Club; B. Birdsville Races; D.
The Guineas Meeting is the British flat racing event that takes place at Newmarket Racecourse at the beginning of May each year. It includes two British Classic Races: [1] The 1,000 Guineas, a mile race for three year old fillies; The 2,000 Guineas, a mile race for three year old colts and fillies; Both races are part of the British Champions ...
The Oakbank Easter Racing Carnival is a horse-racing meeting held over two days by the Oakbank Racing Club at the Oakbank Racecourse located in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia. The carnival is a mixture of flat and jumping races, with two and four jump races on day one and two feature jumping races on day two.
The Oakbank Easter Racing Carnival has received backlash from the RSPCA Australia, [3] Animals Australia, [4] and The Humane Society International Australia [5] for the number of deaths associated with jumps-racing. There have been 7 reported horse deaths during jumps-races at Oakbank since 2010, including 2 in 2010, 1 in 2011, 2 in 2012, 1 in ...
The summer festival was extended to a 3-day meeting in 1959, 4 days in 1971, 5 days in 1974, 6 days in 1982 and, most recently to, 7 days in 1999. The summer festival is the highlight of the business year for most local businesses as crowds and horses flock from all over the world to attend one of the world's biggest race meetings.
The 2008 Ebor Festival was abandoned after wet weather left the course waterlogged and unfit for racing. It was the first time in the event's history that the entire card had to be scrapped due to bad weather. As one of the last major race meetings of the flat season, it attracts racegoers from all over the UK and overseas.
The Spring Racing Carnival is a major contributor to the Victorian economy. According to a study conducted by market research company IER, the 2022 Spring Racing Carnival was estimated to have delivered $422.1 million in gross economic benefit to Victoria in 2022, with the Spring Racing Carnival contributing more than $3.6 billion in gross economic benefit to Victoria in the past decade ...
The club's first meetings were held at the "Star and Garter" tavern in Pall Mall, London, before later moving to Newmarket; [6] a town known in the United Kingdom as "The Home of Racing". It was historically the dominant organisation in British horseracing , and it remained responsible for its day-to-day regulation until April 2006.