Horse races and displays of martial arts were important activities at all three fairs.

* American Quarter Horse racing — races over distances of approximately a quarter-mile.

The first records of Quarter Horse races dated back to 1674 in Henrico County, Virginia.

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.

With the exception of the longer, distance contests, Quarter Horse races are run flat out, with the horses running at top speed for the duration.

In 2008, the China Speed Horse Race Open in Wuhan was organized as a step towards legalizing both horse racing and gambling on the races.

Horse races are held in Pakistan at four different clubs.

The racial makeup of Iron Horse was 276 ( 92. 9 %) White, 0 ( 0. 0 %) African American, 0 ( 0. 0 %) Native American, 1 ( 0. 3 %) Asian, 0 ( 0. 0 %) Pacific Islander, 12 ( 4. 0 %) from other races, and 8 ( 2. 7 %) from two or more races.

As a result of his races that year and the victory over War Admiral, Seabiscuit was named American Horse of the Year for 1938, beating War Admiral by 698 points to 489 in a poll conducted by the Turf and Sport Digest magazine.

He was voted Harness Horse of the Year in 1991, a year in which he won the North America Cup, the Meadowlands Pace, the Art Rooney Memorial Pace, the Adios Stakes, and the Little Brown Jug, among other races.

Horse races often began and ended at taverns, as did militia-training exercises.

Taylor's horses won 15 Queen's Plate races and were named Canadian Horse of the Year nine times.

She was the first horse to win the three prestigious North American races in a row, netting a million-dollar bonus for her owners and ultimately Horse of the Year honors in both France and the United States.

Horse races began on September 10 and continued into the late afternoon of September 13.

His horse Ghostzapper won several major races including the 2004 Breeders ' Cup Classic, was voted the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year, and named the World's Top Ranked Horse for 2004.

* Horse races, e. g. British Classic Races

) Horse races ( and, later, air displays ) were held on the Rock Ddole meadow beside the river.

Despite losing his last two races, tying Citation's race record was enough to earn him his second straight Champion Older Male and Horse of the Year honors.

With the exception of a few months in 1986, John Henry lived at the park until his death in 2007, alongside other racing greats such as Forego and his fellow 1970s champion Bold Forbes, and current residents Cigar, voted Horse of the Decade for the 1990s, and Da Hoss, the first of only two thoroughbreds to win Breeders ' Cup races in non-consecutive years.

* Francine Villeneuve ( Horse Racing ), first female Canadian thoroughbred jockey to win 1, 000 races / winningest Canadian female of all time

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In the last of Kurosawa's films as an assistant director, Horse ( Uma, 1941 ), Kurosawa took over most of the production, as Yamamoto was occupied with the shooting of another film.

He is most famous for the ten eventful years he took to return home after the ten-year Trojan War and his famous Trojan Horse trick.

Conceptualised as the " Horse Lords of Rohan " allied with Gondor in early drafts of 1939, the Rohirrim took their final form in 1942 when about one third of The Lord of the Rings was completed.

Horse drawn hacks took people and wagons transported mail and freight from the station to Nashville.

A shoemaker named Weickmann took the boy to the house of Captain von Wessenig, where he would repeat only the words " I want to be a cavalryman, as my father was " and " Horse!

The 12th ( HAC ) Regiment of Royal Horse Artillery took part in the Operation Torch landings and were in action at Thala in February 1943, where they halted a German advance following the Battle of the Kasserine Pass.

On Wednesday 6 December Colonel Pride ’ s Regiment of Foot took up position on the stairs leading to the House, while Nathaniel Rich ’ s Regiment of Horse provided backup.

The lost epic Little Iliad, in four books, took up the story of the Homeric Iliad, and, beginning with the contest between Telamonian Ajax and Odysseus for the arms of Achilles, carried it down to the feast of the Trojans over the captured Trojan Horse, according to the epitome in Proclus, or to the Fall of Troy, according to Aristotle.

On December 5, 2008, Funny Cide took up residence at the Kentucky Horse Park alongside Cigar, Da Hoss, the late Alysheba and other champions.

When civil war erupted in Shou Lung between the Shou and the T ' u and the northern provinces of Shou were invaded by the Horse Barbarians, the remaining Waan daimyos took advantage of this opportunity and under the united banner of Nitta Shogoro, they were able to finally drive out the occupying Shou troops.

As the Fraser River and Cariboo Gold rushes took off in 1858 – 61 the Oppenheimers established stores catering to the prospectors and settlers in the Interior of the Colony of British Columbia at Yale, Hope, and Lytton in the Fraser Canyon, Barkerville in the Cariboo, and Fisherville at the Wild Horse Creek goldfield in the East Kootenay.

Horse racing took place in the park from 1868 to 1970 in London's only racecourse which was nicknamed " The Frying Pan " from its distinctive layout.

Horse and drey took the factory produce to Elmesthorpe Station.

The Society of Arts at the Adelphi is now the Royal Society of Arts: they took possession of the Horse in 1837, with public exhibition promoted by radical publisher George Cannon.

From 20 July until the battle began, the Australian 1st and 2nd Light Horse Brigades took turns pushing forward and clashing with the advancing column.

With the removal of most of the Yeomanry to France and the breakup of the Imperial Camel Corps, the newly formed 5th Light Horse Brigade took its place with the Australian Mounted Division.

Of the 600 Australians from the 3rd Light Horse Brigade who took part in the attack, the casualties numbered 372 ; 234 out of 300 men from the 8th Light Horse Regiment, of which 154 were killed, and 138 out of the 300 men from the 10th, of which 80 were killed ( including L. B ).

The centenary of the formation of the RNVR ( formed in 1903 ) was commemorated by the RNR in London in 2003 with a parade on Horse Guards, at which HRH Prince Charles took the salute.

McCullough originally decided to end the series with The October Horse because in her opinion the ultimate fall of the Roman Republic took place after the Battle of Philippi, with the death of Caesar's assassins.

The Anzac Mounted Division was to deploy for the attack from the north, with the 2nd Light Horse Brigade on a front extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the Gaza to Jebalieh road, the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade covering the front from the Gaza to Jebalieh road to the top of the ridge running north east, while the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, of 22nd Mounted Yeomanry Brigade, took over the front from the right of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade to the track leading to Beit Durdis.

The 2nd Light Horse Brigade, advancing on the northern side towards the town had not been seriously engaged until it reached the cactus hedges where close, intense fighting took place.

At 02: 00 when the guns of Anzac Mounted Division had reached Dier el Belah and the Division was just passed Beit Dundis, Hodgson gave orders for the concentration of the Imperial Mounted Division's 3rd Light Horse, 5th and 6th Mounted Brigades while the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade took up a line from the Wadi Guzzeh to the left of the 54th ( East Anglian ) Division's headquarters.

In the capture of Beersheba, the 4th Light Horse Brigade took 38 officers and 700 other ranks prisoner, and captured four field guns.