Horse Racing History
Horse racing has been a popular sport throughout the world for thousands of years now. In the modern-day United States, horse racing is the second biggest spectator sport as well as a widespread form of recreational gambling. The major forms of horse racing are Thoroughbred racing, harness racing, steeplechase racing, and quarter horse racing. In addition to major horse races like the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, and the Kentucky Derby, there are horse races held every day during each season at such tracks as Gulfstream and Santa Anita. This section features resources on the history of international horse racing.
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| The Triple Crown of Horse Racing The history of the Triple Crown along with interesting facts and an analysis of why there have been so few Triple Crown... |
Art Will Have to Rewrite History to Win Breeders' Cup Horse racing: European runners with a realistic chance in the Breeder's Cup Mile are down by one, reports Greg Wood. |
| Royal Ascot: Ink Pens Her Name Into Coronation History Books Horse Racing: Indian Ink blew away her rivals as she strolled to victory in the Coronation Stakes. |
Horse Racing: Chapple-hyam Glad to Be Back The Derby: Peter Chapple-Hyam has the chance to make history at Epsom but is just happy to be back in the fold. |
| Cheltenham 2007: Star Has History in His Sights Horse Racing: Kauto Star can become one of the best three staying chasers of all time with a win in the Gold Cup. |
Horse Racing: Maguire Rides Towards History Adrian Maguire has set his sights on joining an elite band of jockeys to ride and train a winner at Cheltenham after... |
| Horse Racing: Cheer for Europeans at Cup Draw Ceremony The draw for the first $20m race card in US history has been kind to the host of Euorpean challengers. |
Horse Racing: Dwyer's Daring, Dangerous, Dazzling Win A brave dart along the rail to seal an unlikely victory on Sir Percy means Martin Dwyer will go down in history, says Clare... |
| Horse Racing: History Man Pipe Hands Over Reins Veteran racing horse trainer Martin Pipe has shocked the racing world by announcing his retirement, handing over the reign... |
Best Mate's Return Ends in Tragedy Horse Racing: Best Mate, one of the finest jumpers in horse racing history, has died after suffering a heart attack during... |
| Hat-trick Heroine Diva Divine in Melbourne Horse Racing: Makybe Diva carved her name into the annals of history by claiming a remarkable third consecutive Melbourne... |
Horse Racing: No Warm Welcome for Europeans in New York Unseasonally cool temperatures and one of the wettest month's in New York history may hamper the European contingent's... |
| Horse Racing: Cole to Make Russian Raid Paul Cole's Fine Silver will make history when he becomes the first British-trained horse to race in Russia, in the... |
Lee Freed to Make Aintree History Horse Racing: Graham Lee will ride last year's winner Amberleigh House rather than Grey Abbey in the Grand National. |
| Tony Mccoy Horse Racing: Small Talk: The most successful jump jockey in British history says he would put happy people, nay, the world... |
Horse Racing: First Televised Jockey Club Hearing Kristin Stubbs became the first person in the 253-year history of the Jockey Club to appear before a disciplinary hearing... |
| Well Chief all the rage to defy history Horse Racing: Well Chief, conqueror of Kicking King in last season's Arkle Trophy, returns to Cheltenham on Saturday the... |
Horse Racing: Betting Exchange Chief Loses £1.1m It has emerged that the collapse of the Sporting Options betting exchange was the most costly failure in the modern history... |
| Makybe Makes Cup History Horse racing: Makybe Diva has won the Melbourne Cup for a second year in a row, beating Irish horse Vinnie Roe into second. |
Horse Racing: Smarty Jones Attempts American Triple Crown Will Buckley writes the script for Smarty Jones, a horse poised to make American racing history. |
| Three in court over £2m 'scam' Horse racing: Three men are due to appear in a New York court in the first step of a case that could unravel the biggest,... |
History calls for the horse named Eric Horse racing: Three racing dynasties can fittingly combine to win Saturday's St Leger, the 226th running of the world's... |
| Horse Racing -- War Emblem stumbles, Sarava pulls upset With a stumble out of the gate, War Emblem's attempt at a Triple Crown ended. Sarava, a 70-1 longshot, made the most of it... |
Horse Racing: War Emblem runs for history No one thought he could win the Kentucky Derby. He did. No one thought he would win the Preakness. He did. Now the question... |