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

* Flat racing

Flat racing is a form of Thoroughbred horse racing which is run over a level track at a predetermined distance.

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.

* Flat wart ( Verruca plana ), a small, smooth flattened wart, flesh-coloured, which can occur in large numbers ; most common on the face, neck, hands, wrists and knees ;

Flat or inverted T waves are most common, often with low-voltage QRS complexes.

The northern portion of the county is drained northward by Big River and its tributaries, including the Flat River, most often known locally as " Flat River Creek.

In 1969, Shenton persuaded Ellis Hillman, a Polytechnic lecturer, to become president of the Flat Earth Society, but there is little evidence of any activity on his part until after Shenton's death, when he added most of Shenton's library to the archives of the Science Fiction Foundation which he helped to establish.

The most famous of these newsletters was Flat Earth News.

The most recent world model propagated by the Flat Earth Society holds that humanity lives on a disc, with the North Pole at its center and a 150-foot ( 45 m ) high wall of ice at the outer edge.

There are, of course, mountains and valleys on the Land but since most of the World is Water, we say, " The World is Flat ".

On most online maps the location of Flat Rock is on J Road between 20th and 21st.

However, when Interstate 40 bypassed the small village to the north in May, 1970 and received only one exit from the freeway, the local economy went into a decline due to the bypass and the concurrent closure of nearby Clinton-Sherman Air Force base at Burns Flat, leading most of those businesses to shut down.

His eleventh album, Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie, was released in 2001 and remains his most recent studio effort.

Flat webbing is a solid weave, with seatbelts and most backpack

The most well-known solo compositions are Jacques Ibert's " Concertino da Camera " and Alexander Glazunov's " Concerto in E Flat major ".

In the 1930s and 1940s, mine tailings at Captains Flat twice collapsed into the upper reaches of the river, eradicating all native fish and most other aquatic life downstream from the site.

The most common example is the Flat engine or Boxer engine, once used extensively by Porsche and still in use on BMWs.

The most used route to Mount Aspiring is up the West Matukituki Valley, which is at the end of a 50-kilometre road from Wanaka at Raspberry Flat.

Flat cloisonné is the most common.

* St. Mary's First Nation ( aka St. Mary's Band – ʔaq ̓ amniʔk or ʔaq ̓ am-‘ deep dense woods ’, are culturally Lower Kootenay, live along the St. Mary's River near Cranbrook, the Tribal Headquarters are located on the most populous reserve Kootenay # 1, reserves: Bummers Flat # 6, Cassimayooks ( Mayook ) # 5, Isidore's Ranch # 4, Kootenay # 1, St. Mary's # 1A, ca.

The most major of these were the Tawa Flat deviation in Wellington, opened 19 June 1937 ; the Rimutaka deviation to the Wairarapa, 3 November 1955 ; and the Kaimai deviation in the Bay of Plenty, 12 September 1978.

* Laminar: Flat ( like most leaves )

The most notorious of these incidents, and the one which has generated more folklore than any other, was the so-called Lambing Flat Riot, actually a drawn-out series of incidents on the Burrangong Goldfield in New South Wales between November 1860 and September 1861.

Lambing Flat, the name which has attached itself most persistently to the events, was a sheep paddock where one of the more violent incidents took place.

In ten months of unrest at Burrangong, the most infamous riot occurred on the night of 30 June 1861 when a mob of perhaps 3, 000 drove the Chinese off the Lambing Flat, and then moved on to the Back Creek diggings, destroying tents and looting possessions.