Horse racing is prohibited on Sundays unless authorized by the local municipality.

Category: Horse racing

* Horse Racing-Raceway Park is the only horse racing facility in Toledo.

* Horse trainer, a person responsible for preparing a horse for horse racing

The Turf Club is the rulemaking and enforcement body, whilst Horse Racing Ireland governs and promotes racing.

Category: Horse racing

In 1970, a film was made about his racing career entitled A Horse Called Nijinsky.

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

Horse racing at Arlington Park, 2007

Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history.

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

Horse racing of all types evolved from impromptu competitions between riders or drivers.

Horse racing was also a part of myth and legend, such as the contest between the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology.

Horse racing in the United States and on the North American continent dates back to 1665, which saw the establishment of the Newmarket course in Salisbury, New York.

Horse racing flourished until World War II.

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.

The Quarter Horse has much larger hind limb muscles than the Arabian, which make it much less suitable for endurance racing.

When Quarter Horse racing began, it was very expensive to lay a full mile of track so it was agreed that a straight track of four hundred meters, or one quarter of a mile would be laid instead.

The first regular horse racing was organized in 1841 on Mokotów Fields in Warsaw by " Towarzystwo Wyścigów Konnych i Wystawy Zwierząt Gospodarskich w Królestwie Polskim " ( eng " Society of Horse Racing in Congress Poland ").

Horse racing in Australia was founded during the early years of settlement and the industry has grown to be among the top three leading Thoroughbred racing nations of the world.

Horse racing is a significant part of the New Zealand economy which in 2004 generated 1. 3 % of the GDP.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is a fantasy with extraordinary power to disturb the reader -- but we do not know why.

Alberta is now served by two major transcontinental railways ( CN and CP ), by three major highway connections to the Pacific ( the Trans-Canada via Kicking Horse Pass, the Yellowhead via Yellowhead Pass and the Crowsnest via Crowsnest Pass ), and one to the United States ( Interstate 15 ), as well as two international airports ( Calgary and Edmonton ).

* Earliest day on which Turkmen Racing Horse Festival can fall, while April 30 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Sunday in April.

This is a squat windowless World War II fortress north west of Horse Guards Parade, now covered in ivy.

Another logician, Gongsun Long, told the famous When a White Horse is Not a Horse dialogue.

The Horse Cavalry Detachment of the U. S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division is made up of active duty soldiers, still functions as an active unit, trained to approximate the weapons, tools, equipment and techniques used by the United States Cavalry in the 1880s.

* A Horse is Worth More than Riches by Jason Hribal

She is recorded to have used implements such as whips, canes and birches, to chastise and punish her male clients, as well as the Berkley Horse, a specially designed flogging machine, and a pulley suspension system for lifting them off the floor.

The designation " Dragoon Guards " does not indicate the status of Household Troops but is a distinction awarded to former " Regiments of Horse " when these were converted to Dragoons in 1746.

The drinking establishment is now known as " The Horse You Came In On ", and local lore insists that a ghost they call " Edgar " haunts the rooms above.

Because this section of stars rises before Pegasus, it is often called Equus Primus, or the First Horse.

*" Flash Crowd " is included in the short story collection The Flight of the Horse.

In the centre of the High Street is the Scots baronial style Town Hall, built in 1886, and the east end has an equestrian statue, known as " the Horse ", erected in 1914.

Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed.

* Horse tack, various equipment and accessories worn by horses, much of which is made of leather

Niven also writes humorous stories ; one series is collected in The Flight of the Horse.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

His minor role in the Epic Cycle narrating the Trojan War was of warning the Trojans in vain against accepting the Trojan Horse from the Greeks —" A deadly fraud is this ," he said, " devised by the Achaean chiefs!

In the Aeneid, Virgil gives Laocoön the famous line Equo ne credite, Teucri / Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, or " Do not trust the Horse, Trojans / Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts.

According to the Hellenistic poet Euphorion of Chalcis, Laocoön is in fact punished for procreating upon holy ground sacred to Poseidon ; only unlucky timing caused the Trojans to misinterpret his death as punishment for striking the Horse, which they bring into the city with disastrous consequences.

It is widely planted throughout the Columbia Valley AVA but has earned particular notice from plantings grown in Walla Walla, Red Mountain and the Horse Heaven Hills.

At one point she is arguing that witches went to their meetings on foot or on horseback in a quite non-magical way, and quotes from the well-known confession of Isobel Gowdie: " I had a little horse, and would say ' Horse and Hattock, in the Devil's name!