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  2. Maiden race - Wikipedia

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    In horse racing a maiden race is an event for horses that have not won a race. [1] Horses that have not won a race are referred to as maidens. [1] Maiden horse races are held over a variety of distances and under conditions with eligibility based on the sex or age of the horse. Races may be handicaps, set weights, or weight for age.

  3. Claiming race - Wikipedia

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    In Thoroughbred racing, a claiming race is a type of horse race in which the horses are all for sale at a specified claiming price until shortly before the race. In the hierarchy of horse races, based on the quality of the horses that compete, claiming races are at the bottom, below maiden races (races for horses that have never won a race).

  4. Thoroughbred racing - Wikipedia

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    A maiden race is one in which the runners have never won a race. Maiden races can be among horses of many different age groups. Maiden races can be among horses of many different age groups. It is similar to a stakes race in the respect that horses all carry similar weights and there are no handicapped "penalties."

  5. Glossary of North American horse racing - Wikipedia

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    Maiden race Specific race for horses that have never won a race, usually by age, but not always. [5] Margin The distance between horses at a given point in the race, usually measured in lengths (see above). For the leader, it is the distance ahead of the second place horse. For other horses, it is the distance by which they trailed the leader.

  6. Novice (racehorse) - Wikipedia

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    A novice in National Hunt horse racing is a horse which has not won in a particular type of race prior to the start of the current season. A novice hurdler has not won a hurdle race before the start of the current season, while a novice chaser has not won a steeplechase before the start of the current season.

  7. Human history - Wikipedia

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    Human history or world history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers. They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.

  8. Maiden (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Maiden name, the family name carried by a woman before marriage; Maiden over, in the sport of cricket, an over in which no runs are scored; Maiden race, the first race for a horse; Maiden race horse, a race horse that has yet to win a race; Maiden speech, the first speech made by a politician in a formal assembly

  9. Vril - Wikipedia

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    Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, originally published as The Coming Race, is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871.. Some readers have believed the account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril", at least in part; some theosophists, notably Helena Blavatsky, William Scott-Elliot, and Rudolf Steiner, accepted the book as based on ...