"Shakespeare by five lengths. Tony Dobbin, Acarlis’ jockey for the race said of his winning horse: ""He's a very high-class horse and traveled really well, quickened up and pricked his ears over the last. He's very good."" In April 2007 at Sandown Park Racecourse in Esher, Surrey, England, Arcalis won the Betfredcasino Hurdle in a deadheat against Penzance. However, the win was costly, as Arcalis was injured and it was serious enough to put him out for the entire 2007-2008 racing season. He did not race again until the 2008 Fighting Fifth Hurdle where he finished in last place. Arcalis"
"Tony McCoy Sir Anthony Peter McCoy, OBE (born 4 May 1974), commonly known as AP McCoy or Tony McCoy, is a Northern Irish former horse racing jockey. Based in Ireland and the UK, McCoy rode a record 4,358 winners, and was Champion Jockey a record 20 consecutive times, every year he was a professional. He stands 1.78 m (5'10""), far taller than most jockeys. McCoy recorded his first winner in 1992 at age 17. On 7 November 2013 he rode his 4,000th winner, riding Mountain Tunes to victory at Towcester. Even in his first season riding in Britain, as an"
"horse racing. Cheltenham Festival (31) Major Nationals Other Notable Races † A British Horse Racing record for most winners ridden in a season by a jockey (flat or jumps), beating Sir Gordon Richards' long-standing record of 269 winners set in 1947 Reference groups Tony McCoy Sir Anthony Peter McCoy, OBE (born 4 May 1974), commonly known as AP McCoy or Tony McCoy, is a Northern Irish former horse racing jockey. Based in Ireland and the UK, McCoy rode a record 4,358 winners, and was Champion Jockey a record 20 consecutive times, every year he was a professional. He stands 1.78"
"his record of title wins. On 10 June 2014, McCoy recorded his fastest ever half century of winners for a season after riding the Rebecca Curtis trained Bob Keown to victory at Worcester Racecourse. McCoy achieved the 50 winner mark for the 2014/15 National Hunt season, which started on 27 April 2014, in just 44 days. On 19 July 2014, McCoy reached a significant personal milestone by surpassing the total of 4,191 winners which friend and mentor Martin Pipe achieved as a licensed trainer before retirement in 2006. McCoy recorded winner number 4,192 by guiding the Jonjo O'Neill trained It's"
"saw attendance grow significantly. In mid-2006, it was announced that from 26 December 2006 Towcester will be charging for entry to their two most popular annual meetings; Boxing Day and Easter Sunday. Selected other meetings are free. In 2008, Lord Hesketh decided to sell the course which is being offered as a going concern. On 7 November 2013, jockey Tony McCoy got his 4,000th career win at Towcester, riding Mountain Tunes to win the Weatherbys Novices' Hurdle. A new greyhound racing track has been built inside the racecourse, which opened in December 2014. In August 2018 the future of Towcester"
"2013 when that racetrack closed. The original race was named for the American film director, Mervyn LeRoy who was a racing enthusiast and one of the track's founders. The Mervyn LeRoy Handicap carried a purse of $150,000 and was a prep to the Hollywood Gold Cup. Elevated to a Grade I event in 1988, it was downgraded to Grade II status in 1991 then to Grade III in 2014. Speed record: Most wins: Most wins by a jockey: Most wins by a trainer: Most wins by an owner: Precisionist Stakes The Mervyn LeRoy Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race"
"at Atlantic City International Airport. In 2011, the Atlantic City Race Course was a recipient of $1 million for capital improvements from the Casino Simulcast Fund, a fund designed to offset the loss of simulcast business at racetracks. On January 9, 2015, Greenwood ACRA, owners and operators of Atlantic City Race Course, have announced the racetrack is ceasing operations and closing permanently. The last day of racing was January 16. Atlantic City Race Course The Atlantic City Race Course (ACRC), formerly the Atlantic City Race Track, was a thoroughbred horse race track located in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton"
"if it would have mattered: ""That winner is the real McCoy, I knew he was the one we had to beat, but I didn't know how good he was,"" he said. While the horse came out of the race in good shape, the press asked Raul Rodriquez if the horse ""knew"" that he had lost the race, and the groom replied, ""oh yeah."" Post race analysis gave California Chrome a Beyer Speed Figure of 119, the highest of his career, topped by 120 for Arrogate. His final race of 2016 was the Winter Challenge Stakes at Los Alamitos, the only"
"races. * indicates active races. Turfway Park Turfway Park is an American horse racing track located just outside the city limits to the north of Florence, Kentucky, about south of the Ohio River at Cincinnati. The track conducts live Thoroughbred horse racing during two meets each year—Holiday (December), and Winter/Spring (January to late March/early April)—and offers year-round simulcast wagering from tracks across the continent. In 2009, the Horseplayers Association of North America introduced a rating system for (currently) 62 Thoroughbred racetracks in North America. In 2016, Turfway was ranked #11. Turfway Park opened in Florence, Kentucky, in 1959 as Latonia"
"the tibia and fibula in his right-hind leg, which resulted in him being put down. McCoy made a delayed start to the 2013/2014 National Hunt season after breaking his ribs from a heavy fall on the Nicky Henderson trained Quantitativeeasing in a handicap hurdle at Cheltenham's end of season April meeting. McCoy, who spent seven nights in hospital, returned to action a month later at Ludlow and immediately opened his account for the season on the JP McManus owned horse Church Field. He surpassed the 100 winner mark for the 2013/2014 season after riding a remarkable 5-timer at Carlisle racecourse"
"However, in March 2009 Crown backed out of the deal. In May 2014, Cannery agreed to sell The Meadows to Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. (GLPI) for $465 million. GLPI said that it would retain ownership of the real estate, while a third-party company would operate the facility. The price was reduced to $440 million, after GLPI filed a lawsuit accusing Cannery of misleading them about the property's financial performance. The sale was completed in September 2016, with Pinnacle Entertainment buying the operating business from GLPI for $138 million and leasing the property for $25 million per year. Horse racing"
"going to her son John, Ernie Gaskin Sr. retired in 2005 with the kennels being taken over by his son Ernest Gaskin Jr. and Mark Wallis took over from Linda Jones. Despite the success the directors agreed to the sale of the company's freehold property to a development consortium led by Yoo Capital and K W Linfoot plc. Formal contracts were exchanged. The final race was held on Saturday 16 August at 11pm, the winner being trap two 'Mountjoy Diamond'. Motor cycle speedway racing was staged at the Walthamstow Greyhound Stadium in Chingford Road in 1934 and between 1949 and"
"January 20, 2005 and concluded with the race for the Cup. In all, 200 horses and their trainers from twenty countries came to Dubai to compete for a total of US$25,000,000 in prize-money. His win in Dubai proved to be his last race: in August 2005, veterinarian Dr. Steve Allday determined that Roses In May had sustained a tendon injury, which ended is racing career. Roses In May was retired on August 19, 2005 when a tendon tear was discovered in his left foreleg. It was announced the following May that he would stand in Japan at Big Red Farm."
"2015 Breeders' Cup Classic The 2015 Breeders' Cup Classic was the 32rd running of the Breeders' Cup Classic, part of the 2015 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships program. It was run on October 31, 2015 at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky. Triple-crown winner American Pharoah was heavily favored for the race and won in a wire-to-wire performance. In doing so, he became the first horse to complete the Grand Slam of Thoroughbred racing, consisting of America's four most prestigious races: the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes and Breeders' Cup Classic. The Classic was run on dirt at one mile and"
"changing in the late 1990s to Philadelphia Park, now Parx Casino and Racing, where he became the highest-earning jockey in the history of the track. In 2013 he was inducted into the Parx Hall of Fame. He won 4,650 races out of 28,684, among the 42 winningest careers in North America, and placed in 7,975. In 1999 he won the Philadelphia Park Breeders' Cup Handicap on Loaded Gun. In his most successful year, 1987, he won 380 races out of 1,694. Since the mid 2010s his career had been slowed by injuries; his last win was on March 13, 2018."
"in October, closely followed by 5 winners over the two-day Aintree October meeting. McCoy sealed his 4000th career win riding the Jonjo O'Neill trained Mountain Tunes, in the colours of owner JP McManus, to a hard fought victory in the Weatherbys Novices' Hurdle at Towcester on 7 November 2013. His mount, Mountain Tunes, looked to have little chance with two hurdles to jump yet McCoy managed to get up in the final strides to beat Kris Spin ridden by Jamie Moore. On 30 November 2013, Tony McCoy had the choice to ride at Newbury, or Newcastle. McCoy rode My Tent"
"Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway is a racino in Dayton, Ohio, United States. It was originally established in 1959 as Raceway Park in Toledo, Ohio, hosting car racing and thoroughbred racing. It is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn National Gaming. Known for weekend live harness racing including Ohio Sire Stakes and Buckeye-Wolverine Pace. The Buckeye-Wolverine Pace took place every year until ending recently. The race once successfully predicted the outcome of the rival Ohio State-Michigan football game with 75% accuracy. In 2011, Governor John Kasich agreed to allow video lottery"
"Or Yours to victory in the Grade One Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle, which eventually turned out to be a good decision as on the same day, At Fishers Cross flopped in the Long Walk Hurdle at Newbury. McCoy reached the 150 winners landmark for the 2013/2014 season after riding a double at Ffos Las racecourse on 16 December 2013. This was the 18th time, out of the 20 seasons riding in Britain, he has surpassed 150 winners for a season. At the end of the 2013/14 season, McCoy was crowned Champion jockey for the 19th consecutive time, further extending"
"scratch him from the race. Later, Tiago was entered in an overnight stakes race at Del Mar on the turf, where he finished 6th. He then ran in the Goodwood Stakes at Oak Tree at Santa Anita and finished 10th. After the start, John Shirreffs said Tiago suffered a career-ending injury,and he was sent to stud at Adena Springs Farm in Paris, Kentucky. Tiago earned over $2.3 million in his racing career. He was euthanized in November 2015 after a long battle with a chronic digestive disorder. Tiago (horse) Tiago (foaled March 8, 2004, died November 2015) was an American"
"for Tony McCoy in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. In 2011 the racehorse owner Andy Stewart began backing the race to promote the Spinal Research charity, following a spinal injury suffered by his son Paul in 2008. The race was run as the Spinal Research The Atlantic 4 Gold Cup in 2011, the Paul Stewart IronSpine Charity Challenge Gold Cup in 2012 and was then named the Stewart Family Thank You Gold Cup in 2013. The race became known as the Caspian Caviar Gold Cup in 2014. The race has become commonly known in the racing media"
"also revealed that the horse had been buried at Jackdaws Castle. Speaking several weeks after the race, McCoy said that ""Synchronised is a horse that I won't ever forget... it is one of those terrible things that you wish will never happen."" When he retired in 2015, McCoy described Synchronised as his favourite racehorse saying that ""he probably wasn't the greatest horse I'd ridden but he had the greatest will to win."" Remembering the horse's death, he said ""I cried for days afterwards. That affected me more than any other horse."" Synchronised (horse) Synchronised (7 March 2003 – 14 April"
"from his defeat in the Breeders' Cup to win the Malibu Stakes on his final appearance of the year. In 2015 he defeated California Chrome in the San Antonio Stakes and won the Santa Anita Handicap before being sidelined for the season with a hip injury. Returning to the track in late 2015, he had promising workouts and was being prepared for a return to racing in 2016. He died unexpectedly on December 3, 2015 due to complications of colic. Emergency surgery was performed at the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary medicine, but surgeons were unable to save him."
"Hollywood Park Racetrack Hollywood Park, later sold and referred to as Betfair Hollywood Park, was a thoroughbred race course located in Inglewood, California, about 3 miles (5 km) from Los Angeles International Airport and adjacent to the Forum indoor arena. In 1994 Hollywood Park Casino, with a poker card room, was added to the racetrack complex. Horse racing and training were shut down in December 2013 though the casino operations continued while a new state of the art casino building opened in October 2016. The former horse racetrack area will be the site of Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park,"
"Stakes), Adaay (2015 Hungerford Stakes), Breton Rock (2014 Hungerford Stakes) and Gabrial (Lincoln Handicap). He raced in second place until the last quarter mile and then got the better of a sustained struggle with Dutch Connection to win by a neck. In his next two races he was moved back into the highest class and performed creditably in defeat as he finished fifth to Belardo in the Lockinge Stakes and fourth to the American mare Tepin in the Queen Anne Stakes. He failed to win or place in four subsequent starts and was retired from racing at the end of"
"2015, the race saw a major upset when longshot Looks To Spare won under jockey Deshawn Parker. A perennial Mountaineer Racetrack champion and its all-time winningest jockey, when Parker rides it is near automatic that the fans will heavily back him. However, Looks To Spare was considered such an unlikely winner that he was allowed to go off at odds of 74-1. He paid $150.60 to win on a $2 ticket. Although open to horses of either sex age three and older, through 2017 no filly nor any three-year-old has ever won the race in its twenty-one-year history. Speed record:"
"and Dick Sworder. Woodroffe also ran his own classes including Banger racing and Mini Rods. The promoter and stadium owner Thomas Stanley became unwell before negotiating the sale of the stadium during 1972. Stanley admitted that the offer for the 12 acre site was too good to refuse. The last stock car and speedway meetings took place at the end of 1973. On 8 March 1974 the last greyhound race meeting took place with the stadium being demolished and making way for a large trade and industrial park and more recently a retail park. The only trace of the venue"
"in the Churchill Downs Handicap. He retired with a record of 25: 12-2-4 and earnings of $3,267,490. The stallion began his stud career stood in 2005 at Frank Stronach's Adena Springs in Midway, Kentucky. Adena Springs later moved operations to Paris, Kentucky, where Congaree stood through the 2009 breeding season. Beginning in 2010, Congaree stood at stud at Highcliff Farm in Delanson, New York. In 2013, Congaree was again moved to stand at Mill Creek Farm in New York, where he stayed until Lane's End Farm acquired him to stand at their Texas operation. When Lane's End Texas closed in"
"Turfway Park Turfway Park is an American horse racing track located just outside the city limits to the north of Florence, Kentucky, about south of the Ohio River at Cincinnati. The track conducts live Thoroughbred horse racing during two meets each year—Holiday (December), and Winter/Spring (January to late March/early April)—and offers year-round simulcast wagering from tracks across the continent. In 2009, the Horseplayers Association of North America introduced a rating system for (currently) 62 Thoroughbred racetracks in North America. In 2016, Turfway was ranked #11. Turfway Park opened in Florence, Kentucky, in 1959 as Latonia Race Course. The track is"
"Racing, agreed to buy Fitzgeralds Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado for $28 million. The sale closed in January 2013, with plans to spend $40 million on expansion and rename the property as Saratoga Casino Black Hawk. The company also acquired a minority stake in Ellis Park Race Course in Kentucky in 2012, and then acquired full ownership of the track in 2018. In 2015, construction of a brand new hotel began on the facility's north side, where a training track once resided. The hotel opened in July 2016, bringing the management to change the name to the current name of"
"and the track operators, Down Royal Corporation of Horse Breeders. The Corporation announced that it would cease operations at the end of 2018 while Merrion, who had apparently met critera set by a land tribunal to evict the tenants, stated that they would run the course from 1 January 2019. Some reports suggested that the course would close. Down Royal Racecourse Down Royal Racecourse is a horse racing venue near Lisburn in Northern Ireland. The most valuable race run there is the JNwine.com Champion Chase, run at the Northern Ireland Festival of racing in November. The most valuable flat race"
"won the Haskell Invitational on August 2, prompting Baffert to say, ""He just keeps bringing it; he's a great horse."" Three weeks later, he finished a close second in a hard-fought Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on August 29, 2015, snapping a winning streak of eight races. After a layoff of two months, he shipped to Keeneland for the 2015 Breeders' Cup and ran in the Breeders' Cup Classic, where he challenged older horses for the first time and won by lengths, breaking the track record. Pursuant to the agreement between Zayat and Ashford, American Pharoah was retired to"
"Horse Racing Hall of Fame and the United States Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2006. He was retired from racing after 4 years, and stood as a breeding stallion for Perretti Farms in Cream Ridge, New Jersey. He was pensioned from stud duty in 2011. Bob Marks of Perretti Farms said ""His libido is willing, but with his hind suspensory, we're afraid he could hurt himself"". Matt's Scooter was euthanised at Mid-Atlantic Equine Clinic in Ringoes, New Jersey on June 30, 2014. Matt's Scooter Matt's Scooter (1985 – June 30, 2014) was a Standardbred pacer and sire who was"
"replaced by Mark Spincer. In December 2013 Newcastle's owners, Arena Racing Company, announced plans to change the flat turf course into an all-weather track while retaining a turf jump racing course. The new tapeta track was completed in early 2016 with the first meeting held on 17 May of that year. Discontinued Flat races: Newcastle Racecourse Newcastle Racecourse is a horse racing course located at Gosforth Park near Newcastle upon Tyne, England, owned by Arena Racing Company. It stages both flat and National Hunt racing, with its biggest meeting being the Northumberland Plate held annually in June. Horseracing began in"