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Forbra (foaled 1925) was a National Hunt racehorse best known for being the winner of the 1932 Grand National steeplechase when relatively unconsidered at 50/1.. Prior to his victory in 1932, Forbra beat Golden Miller in a race where 'The Miller' was disqualified for carrying the wrong weight.
Toggle Results subsection. 1.1 Round One. ... 1932: Competitors: 15 from 8 nations ... The Men's 3000 Metres Steeplechase event at the 1932 Summer Olympics was 3460 ...
The Carolina Cup is an annual steeplechase horse race held at the Springdale Race Course in Camden, South Carolina. [1] The race holds the National Steeplechase Association attendance record of 71,000 people. [2] The Carolina Cup has raised thousands of dollars for the local Kershaw County Medical Center. [3]
The selection of the host city for the 1932 Summer Olympics was made at the 23rd IOC Session in Rome, Italy, on April 9, 1923.Remarkably, the selection process consisted of a single bid, from Los Angeles’ Olympic Committee led by Billy May Garland, and as there were no bids from any other city, Los Angeles was selected by default to host the 1932 Games.
A steeplechase is a distance horse race in which competitors are required to jump diverse fence and ditch obstacles. Steeplechasing is primarily conducted in Ireland (where it originated), Great Britain , Canada , United States , Australia , and France .
Battleship beat Royal Danieli to win the race in a photo finish, completing the race in 9 minutes, 27 seconds. He was ridden by Bruce Hobbs, the seventeen-year-old son of trainer Reg Hobbs. [2] He was an unusual winner of the race in that he was entire. The last entire winner had been Grudon in 1901 [1] and none has won since. [3]
History was made Saturday when Snap Decision became only the second horse to win the Calvin Houghland Iroquois three times in the 2024 race at Percy Warner Park in front of an estimated crowd of ...
Golden Miller (1927–1957) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who is the most successful Cheltenham Gold Cup horse ever, winning the race in five consecutive years between 1932 and 1936. He also is the only horse to win both of the United Kingdom's premier steeplechase races - the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National - in the same year (1934).