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The Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta (also known as the HOSR or the HOS) is a rowing race held annually during the last weekend in October on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [3] The HOSR is the final race in the Fall Fury series, which includes the Head of the Ohio and the Head of the Connecticut. [4]
The river current is strongest in the final four hundred meters of the race as crews pass Peters Island on the west side of the course. Lanes 5 and 6, closest to Peters Island, along with lane 1, on the opposite shore, generally have the slowest water current, making them the least desirable lanes in this downstream racecourse.
[2] [3] It is situated at the 1,000-meter mark of the Schuylkill River race course in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gillin Boat Club was admitted to the Schuylkill Navy in 2004, by a unanimous vote of the Navy's members. [4] The club's state-of-the-art boathouse has the capacity for 42 eights, 14 fours (quads), and 14 small boats. [4]
The first regatta organized by the Dad Vail Rowing Association, in 1939, involved seven colleges racing on the North Shrewsbury River in Red Bank, NJ. After bouncing around between the Connecticut River, Ohio River, Charles River, and Hudson River, in 1953 the regatta settled on the Schuylkill River along Philadelphia's Boathouse Row.
At the same time, some of the established clubs wanted to regulate the sport of rowing to prevent unscrupulous practices and fixed races. [7] As a result, in 1858, the Schuylkill Navy was founded, which eventually transformed the professional sport of rowing into an amateur sport. [7] In 1859, the city condemned the boathouses along the ...
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Perkiomen Creek is a 37.7-mile-long (60.7 km) [1] tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks, Lehigh, and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania. [2] Historically, the water course was also named Perquaminck Creek, on Thomas Holme's 1687 map of the region, which was published by William Penn, founder of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania.
Whipping racehorses for reasons unrelated to safety is illegal in some countries, and although it remains the practice at the Kentucky Derby, use of the riding crop is regulated.. New U.S. racing ...