There are two forms of the sport: Flat racing and National Hunt racing.

* Flat racing

Flat racing is the most common form of Thoroughbred racing.

This includes four of the five ' Classics ' of Flat racing: The Oaks and The Derby at Epsom Downs and the 2, 000 Guineas and the 1, 000 Guineas, and major National Hunt meetings include the Cheltenham Festival and the Grand National at Aintree

The first decade of the 21st century has seen the profile of female jockeys rise considerably in UK Flat racing.

This period has seen the total number of female jockeys in UK Flat racing rise significantly.

To continue racing, speedway officials built the Daytona Flat Track, a new quarter-mile dirt track outside of Turns 1 and 2 of the main superspeedway.

The 2010 Flat racing season saw Kieren Fallon employed largely by trainers Luca Cumani, Mark Johnston and Kevin Ryan.

Ascot today stages twenty-six days of Flat racing over the course of the year, comprising eighteen Flat meetings held between the months of May and October inclusive.

* Zoey Bird-Jump / Flat racing reporter

* Alex Hammond-Jump / Flat racing reporter ( also a presenter on Sky Sports News )

* Derek ' Tommo ' Thompson-Jump / Flat racing reporter ( also a presenter / commentator for Channel 4 Racing )

In 2002, he released his autobiography entitled Flat Out, Flat Broke, in which he spoke candidly about his time in Formula One and, in the second edition, his work for the BBC's Top Gear motoring show as The Stig, a masked, anonymous, racing driver who evaluated the latest high performance cars.

Flat racing:

The course hosts both forms of British horse racing event: National Hunt, in which the horses race over fences or over hurdles, and Flat racing, in which the horses run an unobstructed distance.

Both are wide, galloping tracks used for Flat racing only.

Cook began racing on a professional level in 1987 at Flat Rock Speedway and Toledo Speedway, collecting eleven wins in his first year of competition.

Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River as well as some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and the Konya Basin ( Konya Ovasi ).

The Flat Earth model is an archaic belief that the Earth's shape is a plane or disk.

Flat glass for windows and similar applications is formed by the float glass process, developed between 1953 and 1957 by Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers, who created a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity.

It is possible this is the source of the ( untrue ) legend that Jackson believed in a Flat Earth, and was consequently the only United States president to do so.

Flat knitting, on the other hand, is used, in its most basic form, to make flat, rectangular pieces of cloth.

Flat knitting is usually used to knit flat pieces like scarves, blankets, afghans, and the backs and fronts of sweaters.

KL1 is an implementation of Flat GHC ( a subset of the Guarded Horn Clauses language by Kazunori Ueda ), making it a parallelised Prolog variant.

Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia.

* Flat Finish-This finish is generally used on ceilings or walls that are in bad shape.

: Flat: The board is entirely flat from nose to tail.

* May 13 – Guglielmo Marconi sends the first ever wireless communication over open sea when the message " Are you ready " is transmitted across the Bristol Channel from Lavernock Point in South Wales to Flat Holm Island, a distance of.

Most modern sousaphones are made in the key of BB ♭ ( Low B Flat ) and like tubas ( which are commonly made in pitches of BB ♭, CC, EE ♭, and F ) the instrument's part is written in " concert pitch ", not transposed by key for a specific instrument.

Flat weighting: In a noise-measuring set, a noise weighting based on an amplitude-frequency characteristic that is flat over a frequency range that must be stated.

Note 1: Flat noise power is expressed in dBrn ( f < sub > 1 </ sub >-f < sub > 2 </ sub >) or in dBm ( f < sub > 1 </ sub >-f < sub > 2 </ sub >).

Flat tax proposals differ in how they define what is subject to tax.

* The Flat Tax: How it Works and Why it is Good for America

The second-highest mountain range is the Oquirrhs, reaching a maximum height of 10, 620 feet ( 3, 237 m ) at Flat Top.

For applications where a flatter ( less shiny ) sheen is desired, products containing amorphous silica, such as " Shellac Flat ," may be added to the dissolved shellac.

The legendary Paiste 601 Flat Ride was reissued in 2010, but is only available in 20 " medium.

The spaghetti western Four of the Apocalypse is based on " The Outcasts of Poker Flat " and " The Luck of Roaring Camp ".

There is also a semitone bell ( Flat 6th ) also cast by Taylor of Loughborough in 1991.

The city was formed in an unusual four-way merger that took place in January 1994, in which the cities of Flat River, Elvins, Esther and the village of Rivermines joined to form the new city of Park Hills.

Weaverville High School, built by the WPA in 1927, opened on the south end of Main Street, but later merged secondary-school operations with four other area schools ( Flat Creek, Red Oak, French Broad, and Barnardsville ) in 1954 to form North Buncombe High School.

Flat chain is a form of chain used chiefly in agricultural machinery.

Flat structuring functions are functions b ( x ) in the form

It flows eastward, curving southeasterly as it enters the Great Basin where it is joined on the left by Bridge Creek and dammed to form McCoy Flat Reservoir approximately 11 miles northwest of Susanville.

So from the 9, 505 km² of the island area, 1, 789 km² lie 900 m above mean sea level, 872 km² above 1, 200 m and 382 km² above 1, 500 m. Flat areas are located in narrow stripes near the coast and along the banks of river Apo – there they form a valley of the same name.

Crossing Cabin Flat, it weaves its way across hidden pools of stagnant water, the presence of which is betrayed by a form of red grass.

The path from Grit Fell is difficult: crossing Cabin Flat, it weaves its way across hidden pools of stagnant water, the presence of which is betrayed by a form of red grass.

The hills form a barrier between the Amargosa Desert and Sarcobatus Flat to the north.

The Eno converges with the Flat and Little Rivers to form the Neuse at Falls Lake, which straddles Durham and Wake counties.

In August 2009, Stir Crazy Restaurants LLC merged with Flat Top Grill, also based in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, to form Flat Out Crazy, LLC.