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The Canadian Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing is a series of Canadian Thoroughbred horse races for Canadian-foaled three-year-old fillies inaugurated in 1999. The races consists of the: Woodbine Oaks; Bison City Stakes; Wonder Where Stakes; Since 1965, only fillies have run in these races.
Desert Gold had 14 starts and won all of them, five of them in race record time. These races included the Hawke's Bay Guineas, New Zealand Derby (taking three seconds off the record), CJC New Zealand Oaks, CJC G.G. Stead Memorial Gold Cup, Islington Plate, ARC Great Northern Derby, Royal Stakes (for the second time and in race record time), Wellington Stakes (in race record time), WRC North ...
In 2006 a fourth race, called The Last Desert, took place in Antarctica and was the first year in which all 4 Deserts races were held in the same calendar year. Competitors can enter any of the individual multiday races within the 4 Deserts Race Series, but if they wish to take part in The Last Desert (Antarctica) they must successfully finish ...
The Triple Crown of Hurdling is awarded to a horse that wins all three of the open, two-mile Grade 1 Hurdling races in any given English National Hunt season: The Fighting Fifth Hurdle , held at the Newcastle Racecourse
Flying free, flying high, Flashing wings across the sky, Geordie racer, Geordie racer. On the road, in the street, Hear the sound of pounding feet, Geordie racer, Geordie racer. Don't wait, don't stop, You're heading home. Don't rest, don't drop, You're heading home. In the air, on the ground, See them moving all around. Running hard, flying fast,
Kawasaki Superbike Challenge is a motorcycle racing game that uses the same engine as the Sega Genesis game F1. It includes 14 standard-length race tracks, plus the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race, available in both training and Championship modes. The game is unlicensed (except by Kawasaki), so all riders and teams are fictional.
In Spain, pigeon eating was a common practice as early as the 14th century under the 1379 Order of the Pigeon created by King Juan I of Castile. The order ate pigeon regularly at their order banquets. In 1611, a recipe book by the royal chef at the court of Philip III of Spain included recipes for pigeon pie. Similarly, a chef at a university ...
The report on the "International Contests of Physical Exercise and of Sports" in Paris in 1900 lists lâcher-concours de pigeons-voyageurs (lit. ' homing pigeon release competition ', in French) occurring on 6 separate sundays: 24 June, 8 July, 29 July, 26 August, 9 September and 16 September 1900, all in the French commune of Vincennes.