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Note: Harness racing is sometimes conducted at short-term meets at various fairs and similar events. Many notable harness races are held at such venues, such as the Fox Stake at the Indiana State Fair and the Little Brown Jug at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio .
Warwick Farm Raceway was a motor racing facility which was in operation from 1960 to 1973. [1] Warwick Farm Raceway hosted numerous major events during its life such as the Australian Grand Prix and rounds of both the Australian Touring Car Championship and the Tasman Series .
State Recreation Areas are more intensely developed units than State Parks, and they largely encompass lands less sensitive to human activities than State Parks. According to the NC Division of Parks & Recreation: State Recreation Areas are sites where the primary purpose is outdoor recreation, rather than preservation.
Warwick Farm Racecourse is a racecourse at Warwick Farm, a south-west suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is used as a racecourse for Thoroughbred horse racing . The racecourse is owned and operated by the Australian Turf Club .
William Forrester (26 August 1842 – 23 August 1901) [1] was an Australian racehorse and racecourse owner. Descended from Robert Forrester, a First Fleet convict, Forrester was known as Black Bill to distinguished him from a cousin also of the name William Forrester. He was a racehorse owner and trainer who owned Warwick Farm. [2]
The Eskimo Prince Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race, for three-year-olds, with set weights with penalties conditions, over a distance of 1200 metres at Warwick Farm Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in February. [1] Total prize money for the race is A$160,000.
In May 2005, the North Carolina General Assembly authorized the creation of the "Hickory Nut Gorge State Park." In August 2005 the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy (renamed Conserving Carolina in 2017) and The Nature Conservancy purchased a 1,568-acre (6.35 km 2) tract of land south of Lake Lure known as "World's Edge" for $16 million with the intention of transferring the land as the first ...
Merchants Millpond State Park is a North Carolina state park in Gates County, North Carolina, in the United States. Located near Gatesville, in North Carolina's coastal plain, it covers 3,520 acres (14.2 km 2) [2] around a 200-year-old, 700-acre (280 ha) millpond and Lassiter Swamp. Canoeing is one of the park's major attractions.