Sentences with phrase «days in the horse racing»

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Next day, as the Ferris wheel was being taken apart and the race horses were being loaded into vans and the entertainers were packing up their belongings and driving away in their trailers, Charlotte died.

«I'm sure the horse is going to break a leg in the trailer, or come down with flu the day before, or fall off a cliff during the race.»

In the «good old days» before the turn of the century, Arsenal had always been part of a two horse race, with either Man United or Liverpool.

Saturday hasn't been a good day for favorites to start with Lady Aurelia finishing a distant 10th out of 12 horses in the race of 3 - year - olds.

HORSE RACING — BILL SHOEMAKER, hopping from coast to coast, won three stakes races in three days and then, after a day off, took the Santa Anita Handicap.

Hooked on horses from the day her stepfather Charles Castrenze, a chef at the Holiday Inn in Aberdeen, Md., first took her to the track as a toddler, she began working weekends at Laurel Race Course during her senior year in high school.

HORSE RACING — EASY GOER ($ 2.60), ridden by Pat Day, charged past four horses in the final quarter mile to win the Woodward Handicap by two lengths over Its Acedemic.

Orb won his first race two days after Thanksgiving at Aqueduct and then won his first race of 2013 in a 11 / 8 - mile stake on Jan. 13 at Florida's Gulfstream Park, winter home for some of McGaughey's horses.

Gallant Man, toting 132 pounds for first time, handily completed two - race assault on Hollywood Park, won $ 107,600 Sunset Handicap four lengths over Eddie Schmidt, the same horse he beat 10 days earlier in $ 162,100 Gold Cup.

When the stewards receive all the tags representing specimens from the horses tested on any racing day, they put the whole batch in a small brown envelope which is then sealed, stamped across the fold in three places with red wax and locked up, generally overnight.

Adjacent to these and protected by a high wire fence is a blue - and - white trailer, the property of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, in which postrace tests are conducted to determine whether illegal drugs are present in the saliva or urine of winners and other selected horses that have raced each day.

As the old song put it, what a difference a day made — even in horse racing.

Tipperary still breeds great jump horses — in the 198 races held at Cheltenham from 1981 through» 91, Ireland bred 119 of the winners — but current economic circumstances mean that these days the best young Irish prospects tend to be bought up and shipped to England.

A couple of days before last weekend's big horse race, a sports announcer on WCBS in New York did something he probably should not have.

America's biggest equine event, The National Horse Show, which opens its annual eight - day stand next week (Nov. 2 - 9) in Madison Square Garden, had no more class than a six - day bike race when it was first held in a car barn in 1883.

Three days beforethe race Billy Turner, the trainer of 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew, reflected on seeing horses come up short at the Belmont in their bid to winracing's jewel.

Race day broughta familiar tableau: a huge crowd (94,476, the fourth - largest in Belmonthistory), a crescendo of noise as the horses were loaded into the starting gateand a palpable sense of hunger.

The Cheltenham Festival is one of the most popular race meetings in the whole of the year, and the bookmakers will be quaking in their boots with Willie Mullins bringing over a multitude of top quality horses for the four day event.

THE QUALITY OF REMEMBRANCE Sirs: Saturday, May 5 was indeed A Day to Remember (SI, May 14), but less for the horse race in Kentucky than for the foot race in Los Angeles.

Michael Owen is a horse enthusiast; he even owns race horses and has even bred a few of his own but unfortunately for the Englishman, Owen could never learn to ride or race in competitions during his playing days but since he retired over 3 years ago, the Ballon d'Or winner has enough time to focus on training and learn the ins and outs of horses and horse racing.

Shop owners in Arlington Heights are waiting to see how much difference a day makes when the Arlington Million, Illinois» premier thoroughbred horse race, is held this Saturday instead of on a Sunday as in previous years.

«On the day of the most famous race in the country, New York has to get back on the horse.

UPDATE: Red Horse informs me it did some mailers for labor unions that supported Weprin and a small canvass for the last two days of the NY - 9 race, so it did have some skin in the game here.

Buried in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 21 - day budget amendments released publicly this morning is a $ 10 fee for horse owners who compete in NYRA - sanctioned races.

Meanwhile, Saturday presents an golden opportunity for NYS, Nassau County and horse racing to reap millions in one day.

Eleven horses have died so far at Saratoga Race Course in just over two weeks since opening day.

That's why polls are putting us ahead of Labour, and that'll crystallise in the next few days into a two - horse race.»

The point was made in a horse race ad from the independent No campaign and in a child's sport day video from the Tory Party's No campaign.

WAMC's David Guistina chats with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a break in a double homicide case in Troy and the last day of horse meets for the 2014 season at Saratoga Race Course.

The horse's task in this race is roughly equivalent to an 80 - kilogram runner doing four hilly marathons in a half day, with a 20 kg child strapped to their back.

You can go to the track itself to watch any of the day's ten races, but in between you see people of all ages picnicking, meeting the race horses and ponies, making new friends, sharing their beers... it's the kind of place families go for generations, special because of the tradition.

It's not so much about the horse racing as it is about getting gussied up in a feminine dress and an over the top hat and making an entire day out of a two - minute race.

also in Balmain — a zebra - stripe turtleneck mini — with strappy heels and a sculptural black fascinator, to judge fashions at Golden Slipper Day at the Sydney, Australia horse races.

I already have this dress in mind to wear it to the next horse race I attend complete with another DIY Derby Day hat that I can not wait to make!

In March the country's most popular horse racing festival is held and crowds can amass up to 4o, ooo on the day.

Have riden at Badmington and also Burghely, 3 day eventing is my fav (horse racing bores me its too easy) Have competed in...

The challenge is to watch horse racing at each venue in an 80 day period ranging.

In the Muschietti days, it became a two - horse race between Skarsgård and Hugo Weaving.

Back in the day, the late, great Carroll Shelby often summarised one particular meeting with Ford president Lee Iacocca as: «So, Lee, you want me to make a race horse (the GT350) out of a mule (the standard Mustang GT)?»

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EHV - 1 and EHV - 4 can cause significant economic harm to the U.S. equine industry.2 An outbreak of EHV - 1 at the Hawthorne Race Course in suburban Chicago in October 2012 resulted in four confirmed cases, two horse deaths and numerous quarantines, prompting officials to cancel a day of racing.

Commonwealth Day, held in May, celebrates the Queen's birthday and boasts races between bicycles, runners and even horses.

Days 77 to 85 • Buenos Aires — a smart cosmopolitan city with plenty to do; museums, horse racing, football matches, shopping, tango dancing & restaurants that serve the best steaks in the world.

It is not uncommon to find people participating in kite contests, horse races and cycle races on Labour Day.

Melbourne hosts the Australian Open tennis, the Melbourne Cup - the most prestigious handicap horse race in the world; the hugely popular «Boxing Day» cricket test match held each year at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (a massive arena that can hold up to 100,000 spectators); the Australian Grand Prix Formula One championship.

The challenge is to watch horse racing at each venue in an 80 day period ranging.

If you're in Guatemala in November head to Todos Santos Cuchumatán for three days of drinking, dancing and a wild all - day horse race.

The entire nation of Belize uses the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's birthday and Commonwealth Day to celebrate on May 22 with horse races in Belize City and Orange Walk Town, a bicycle race in Belmopan, and plenty of fun, games, and music across the country.

The challenge is to watch horse racing at each venue in an 80 day period ranging.

The challenge is to watch horse racing at each venue in an 80 day period ranging.