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The Cape Metropolitan Stakes, currently named the Sun Met (and previously known as the J&B Met), is a Grade 1 thoroughbred horse race run on the turf at Kenilworth Racecourse in Cape Town, South Africa. [1]
They bought the grandstand from the defunct Kenilworth Racetrack in Buffalo, New York, dismantled it and reconstructed it at the new track. To make the racing legal, the partners bought an old racing charter that permitted 14 days of racing. [1] It opened as an independent track on September 2, 1916, staffed by the Dufferin Park staff. [2]
March 2009 – at The Meadows, between Tsm Goldenridge, Serious Damage and Teen Elvis; the 25th triple dead heat in harness racing history. [ 36 ] May 23, 2010 – in the 71st Yushun Himba ("Japanese Oaks") at Tokyo Racecourse , between Apapane and Saint Emilion; the first Japanese Grade I race to result in a dead heat for the win.
The 2023 Belmont Stakes was the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes and the 112th time the event took place at Belmont Park.The 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (12 furlongs; 2,414 metres) race, known as the "test of the champion", is the final leg in the American Triple Crown, open to three-year-old thoroughbreds.
The 2014 Breeders' Cup World Championships was the 31st edition of the premier event of the North American thoroughbred horse racing year. It took place on October 31 and November 1 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. [1]
Spectacular Bid was bred at Buck Pond Farm near Lexington, Kentucky by Madelyn Jason and her mother, Mrs. William Gilmore. [2] He was a very dark gray (described as "steel-gray" [3] and "battleship-colored" [4]) during his racing career although, like all grays, his coat lightened as he aged, and he eventually took on a "flea-bitten gray" appearance.
The 2021 Preakness Stakes was the 146th Preakness Stakes, a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 3 ⁄ 16 miles (1.9 km). The race is one leg of the American Triple Crown and is held annually at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
Winning Colors had the lead with 10 yards to go when Personal Ensign, who had struggled throughout the race because of the sloppy track, rallied and won by what the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame describes as a "lip." After the race, Winning Colors' trainer, D. Wayne Lukas, said that she had run the best race of her career.