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Virginia Motorsports Park (VMP) is a 1/4 mile (0.402 km) dragstrip in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, just outside of Petersburg. [1] It opened in 1994 and originally hosted the NHRA's Virginia NHRA Nationals. It has a seating capacity of 23,000 spectators.
In 1973, Secretariat became the first horse in twenty-five years to win the Triple Crown and the only champion to break all three track records, which still stand fifty years later. [citation needed] 2014 State Fair hosted at Meadow Event Park. The Meadow was sold by the Chenery family in 1979, and most of the property was divided into smaller ...
In 2006, MJCI became the first horse racing club in the Philippines to provide horse racing information through text messaging, a program known as the Karera Info sa Text, with plans to introduce betting via text message. [2] Also in 2006, the Blood Typing and Parentage Validation Program for racehorses was replaced by a DNA technology program.
On November 9, 2023, the NHRA announced Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie, Virginia will return to the schedule to fill the June unannounced date that replaces Denver on the schedule. Originally planned to be a three-day event, the NHRA announced on April 2, 2024 that the event would be modified to a two-day format with three qualifying ...
The Philippine Racing Commission (Filipino: Komisyon ng Karera sa Pilipinas [1]), abbreviated as Philracom, is a government agency under the Office of the President that functions as the supervisory and regulating body of horse racing in the Philippines.
The Foxfield Races are a set of steeplechase races that originated in 1978 and are held twice annually in Albemarle County, Virginia, approximately eight miles northwest of downtown Charlottesville. It is a popular tradition for much of the community as well as students of the University of Virginia and other universities on the East Coast.
Dinwiddie is located in southern Virginia, southwest of the independent city of Petersburg, which separated from the county (and adjacent Prince George County) in 1871.. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 507 square miles (1,310 km 2), of which 504 square miles (1,310 km 2) is land and 3.5 square miles (9.1 km 2) (0.7%) is wate