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• The World-Renowned Grand National Steeplechase

  The Grand National Steeplechase is well known all over the world and attracts as many as 150,000 spectators every year. The Grand National is held at the Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool on the ...

• Somebeachsomewhere, Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame glory

  It has been a long time since the harness racing community had a magnificent hero such as Somebeachsomewhere. If anyone had any doubts in the sport of harness racing, it was erased by the ...

• Who Can Compete for this Horse Racing Gold Mine?

  No horse racing enthusiast, whether in the United States or anywhere else, can claim to be unaware of names such as Saratoga, Belmont and Aqueduct. The New York Racing Association has conducted ...

• Fonner Park in Tonight Rainbow’s Future

  The Grasmick Stakes, for three year old horses and older, will be run on the 21st of February 2009 over a distance of four furlongs at Fonner Park. With a purse of $10 000, there will be many ...

• Hot Danish Beats the Odds

  The Doncaster Handicap is taking place this weekend and is hosted at the Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia. The 1600 meter horse racing event was first run in 1866, and the Group One race ...

• Starting Gate Training – Why and How

  Unfortunately, all the sales talk that company representatives use to sell a starting gate does not guarantee that a race horse is going to enter them. Trying to reassure a race horse that it ...

• Harness Racing Awards for 2013 Season

  Three-year-old filly trotter Bee A Magician made a big impression at the 2013 Dan Patch Awards banquet at Dover Downs on Sunday February 23, where she was named 2013 Horse of the Year by the US ...

• Bucking a Trend – Horse Racing

  The British Horseracing Regulatory Authority and the Irish Turf Club will defy a large section of public opinion that considers steeplechases and making horses jump over hurdles to be inhumane, ...

• Preserving an Important Horse Racing Tradition

  One of the most endearing characteristics of horse racing is its honor of deep rooted traditions. The manner in which thoroughbreds are bred, trained and cared for, go back uncounted ...

• The Belmont Stakes: Third Jewel in the Triple Crown

  The Belmont Stakes is recognized as the third jewel in horse racing's Triple Crown, after the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes. In the case of the Belmont, however, coming in "third" is ...

• Hall of Fame Nominees Selected

  It is that time of year again, when voters will be given the task of selecting their favorites to be inducted into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame. Over the years voters have been ...

• Kentucky Derby Dress Rehearsals – Horse Racing

  Horses, riders and their trainers are all jockeying for one of the 20 places to compete in the eagerly awaited Kentucky Derby. Saturday April 1st was no April Fools Day at Gulfstream Park, as ...