He was British flat racing Champion Owner thirteen times.

Thoroughbred racing is divided into two codes: flat racing and jump races.

Historically, the major flat racing countries were Australia, England, Ireland, France and the United States, but other countries, such as Japan or Dubai, have emerged in recent decades.

Novice jumping races involve horses that are starting out a jumping career, including horses that previously were trained in flat racing.

Salisbury Racecourse is a flat racing course to the south-west of the city.

In the UK, it is known as flat racing and is governed by the Jockey Club in the United Kingdom.

There are three major types of racing: flat racing, steeplechasing ( racing over jumps ), and harness racing, where horses trot or pace while pulling a driver in a sulky.

Breeds that may be used for flat racing include the Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse, Arabian, Paint, and Appaloosa.

Within the general category of Thoroughbred flat racing, there exist two separate types of races.

In the United States, Thoroughbred flat races are run on surfaces of either dirt, synthetic or turf ; other tracks offer Quarter Horse racing and Standardbred horse racing, or combinations of these three types of racing surfaces.

Ireland has a rich history of horse racing ; point to pointing originated there and even today, jump racing ( National Hunt racing ) is more popular than racing on the flat.

Vincent O ' Brien who trained horses at Ballydoyle in Tipperary, was one of the most successful trainers of all time, in both National Hunt racing and on the flat.

In Great Britain, there are races which involve obstacles ( either hurdles or fences ) called National Hunt racing and those which are unobstructed races over a given distance ( flat racing ).

Japan conducts more than 21, 000 horse races a year in one of three types: flat racing, jump racing ( races over hurdles ), and Ban ' ei Racing ( also called Draft Racing ).

The giant waves are more dangerous on flat shores than on steep ones.

At home in his dreary flat, Alex plays classical music at top volume while fantasizing of even more orgiastic violence.

This is crossed by foot-hills and rolling prairies in the central part of the state, where it has a mean elevation of about, becomes lower and more level toward the southwest, and in the extreme south is flat and but slightly elevated above the sea.

Even so, the flat country and weather uncertainties made flooding much more unpredictable than in the case of the Nile ; serious deluges seem to have been a regular occurrence, requiring constant maintenance of irrigation ditches and drainage systems.

152-153 .</ ref > The moon and sun are likewise considered to be flat and floating on streams of air, and when the sun sets it does not pass under the earth but is merely obscured by higher parts of the earth as it circles around and becomes more distant ; the motion of the sun and the other celestial bodies around the earth is likened by Anaximenes to the way that a cap may be turned around the head .< ref > Fairbanks, Arthur.

Drop handlebars " drop " as they curve forward and down, offering the cyclist best braking power from a more aerodynamic " crouched " position, as well as more upright positions in which the hands grip the brake lever mounts, the forward curves, or the upper flat sections for increasingly upright postures.

This is a very simple view of CPU address space, and many designs use more complex addressing methods like paging to locate more memory than their integer range would allow with a flat address space.

Penrose ’ s shocking conclusion, though, was that obtaining a flat universe without inflation is much more likely than with inflation – by a factor of 10 to the googol ( 10 to the 100 ) power !”

It could be opened flat at any page, allowing easier reading ; the pages could be written on both front and back ( recto and verso ); and the codex, protected within its durable covers, was more compact and easier to transport.

By 2006, although the price points of CRTs were generally much lower than LCD and plasma flat panels, large screen CRTs ( 30-inches or more ) were as expensive as a similar-sized LCD.

A dolmen, also known as a portal tomb, portal grave, or quoit, is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone ( table ).

It had knobbly flat teeth more to the back of the jaw that were well suited for crushing the armor of shellfish.

Unlike conventional backlit flat panel displays which emit light, electronic paper displays reflect light like ordinary paper, making it more comfortable to read, and the surface has a wider viewing angle than conventional displays.

In its course from Lake Victoria to Juba in southern Sudan, the White Nile's channel drops more than 600 m. In its 1, 600-km course from Juba to Khartoum, Sudan's capital, the river descends just 75 m. In southern and central Sudan, the White Nile passes through a wide, flat plain covered with swamp vegetation and slows almost to the point of stagnation.

The classical guitar's wide, flat neck allows the musician to play scales, arpeggios, and certain chord forms more easily and with less adjacent string interference than on other styles of guitar.

Similar to the flat top guitar in appearance, but with a body that may be made of brass, nickel-silver, or steel as well as wood, the sound of the resonator guitar is produced by one or more aluminum resonator cones mounted in the middle of the top.

For this reason, prepaid phones are more popular than monthly flat rate plans.

* Turnovers: used to maneuver an opponent who is on all fours or flat on their stomach to their back, in order to score points, prepare for a pin or in order to gain a more dominant position.

Although the described person may reside on completely flat terrain, hillbilly is substituted in place of more disparaging terms, such as white trash.

The idea stage says that products should be flat packed so more can be shipped at once, and that products should be easy to dismantle and recycle.

Common cylinder configurations include the straight or inline configuration, the more compact V configuration, and the wider but smoother flat or boxer configuration.

Its terrain is relatively flat, with open lands, plains and peat bogs in the west and a more elevated and slightly hilly terrain in the east.

Its terrain is relatively flat, with heaths, plains and peat bogs in the west and a more elevated, fertile and slightly hilly terrain in the east.

Among Patel's surviving family, Manibehn Patel lived in a flat in Mumbai for the rest of her life following her father's death ; she often led the work of the Sardar Patel Memorial Trust — which organises the prestigious annual Sardar Patel Memorial Lectures — and other charitable organisations.

It's Britain's most prestigious open-age flat race, and its roll of honour features some of the most highly-acclaimed horses of the sport's recent history.

Before earning his bachelor's degree, Bridges spent his junior year in England studying at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, living in a tiny basement flat in Chelsea, and attending West End theatre productions on free passes.

All Egyptian reliefs were painted, and less prestigious works in tombs, temples and palaces were just painted on a flat surface.

The Tempel, which housed a prestigious congregation in the capital of the Empire, inspired the building of any Moorish Revival synagogues, including several that echo Forster's building in the flat facade and roof, tripartie massing with a large central block, symmetrical decorative minarets, and internal basilica plan with balconies.