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Peintre Bleu (25/1) - C Moss. A horse named Plantation finished last of the 12 runners in the final race at Birmingham on a cold, wet evening at Bromford Bridge. Lester Piggott had first ridden at Birmingham racecourse in 1948. Lord Willoughby de Broke handed the finishing post over to Birmingham City Council's house-building committee. [9]
Thorncliffe Stable is a defunct Thoroughbred and Standardbred horse racing and breeding operation established in 1888 in Toronto, Ontario by businessman Robert T. Davies. The stable was based at Davies' Thorn Cliff Farm in the Don River Valley in what is now known as Thorncliffe Park. Yellow and black were the stable's racing colours. [1]
Stables can be maintained privately for an owner's own horses or operated as a public business where a fee is charged for keeping other people's horses. In some places, stables are run as riding schools , where horses are kept for the purpose of providing lessons for people learning to ride or even as a livery stable (US) or hireling yard (UK ...
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An avid participant in horse racing, under the banner of Thorncliffe Stable, Davies raced both thoroughbred and standardbred horses. After his death in 1916, Davies' estate sold the property to a group of investors from Baltimore, Maryland who built a horse racetrack. The track had a simple but small grandstand structure (and covered area) on ...
The Timken Stables, or Henry H. Timken Estate Barn as it was listed in 1978 on the National Register of Historic Places, is historically significant enough to be repaired and saved.
The museum's collections and displays are housed in the Trainer's House and King's Yard Stables. Exhibits relate to the history and science of horse racing and include paintings, jockey silks worn by Lester Piggott and Frankie Dettori, a racehorse simulator which visitors can try out, and other racing memorabilia.
The shopping centre was opened to the public in 1960 as the Thorncliffe Market Place in the town of Leaside. Before 1954 the area was the northeast corner of racetrack and grassy area south of where the stables of the old Thorncliffe Park Raceway were. It began with two anchors, Sayvette [2] and Steinberg's. [2]