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In Great Britain, Thoroughbred horse racing is governed by the British Horseracing Authority ( BHA ) which makes and enforces the rules, issues licences or permits to trainers and jockeys, and runs the races through their race course officials.
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He played the leading role in negotiating the treaty with Great Britain that ended the Revolution, and directed America's foreign affairs throughout the Confederation period.
Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.
chief engineer of the radio set division of Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd., the largest electronic equipment manufacturer in Great Britain ; ;
director of engineering at Philco of Great Britain, Ltd., and vice president in charge of production and assistant to the president at The Brush Development Co., Cleveland, Ohio.
He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.
Numerous cooperating individuals in Great Britain, Holland, the United States, and Belgium have contributed editorially or by making calculations.
Besides the editors there were many contributors in the United States and Great Britain to Volumes 1, and 2.
For the first three weeks, the ship skirted up the east coast of Great Britain, then turned westward.
The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.
On July 14 the Security Council -- with France and Great Britain abstaining -- voted the resolution which drew the U.N. into the Congo.
Secretary-General Hammarskjold decided that it would be preferable if the U.N. troops sent into the Congo were to come from African, or at least nonwhite, nations -- certainly not from the U.S., Russia, Great Britain or France.
The Trent Affair of late 1861 threatened war with Great Britain.
Category: 1729 in Great Britain
In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.
With the expansion of the British Empire, and hence the growth of Anglicanism outside Great Britain and Ireland, the Communion sought to establish new vehicles of unity.
* 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").
The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention.
Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.
* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Great and Thoroughbred
Phar Lap ( 1926 – 1932 ) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse whose achievements captured the public's imagination during the early years of the Great Depression.
* Bowen, Edward L. Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders ( 2003 ) Eclipse Press ISBN 978-1-58150-102-5
The Minstrel ( 1974-1990 ) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in Great Britain and Ireland.
* Bowen, Edward L. Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders ( 2003 ) Eclipse Press ISBN 978-1-58150-102-5
* Bowen, Edward L. Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders ( 2003 ) Eclipse Press ISBN 978-1-58150-102-5
* Bowen, Edward L. Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders ( 2003 ) Eclipse Press ISBN 978-1-58150-102-5
Orlando ( foaled 1841 ) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the Epsom Derby and as a Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland.
Great and horse
Caligula, a man who could not swim, then proceeded to ride his favorite horse, Incitatus, across, wearing the breastplate of Alexander the Great.
This inspired Frederick the Great to organize the first regular horse artillery unit in 1759.
Other nations quickly realized the capability of the new arm and by the start of French Revolutionary Wars in 1790s Austria, Hannover, Portugal, Russia, France, Great Britain and Sweden had all formed regular units of horse artillery.
** First case reports in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, of the Great Epizootic of 1872 ( equine influenza, or the " horse flu ") which will substantially disrupt life in North America by mid-December.
* c. 7000 BC: Wild horse populations drop in Europe proper ; horse disappears from the island of Great Britain, but was never found in Ireland.
All six nobles would gather outside mounted on their horses at sunrise, and the nobles ' horse which neighed first would become Great King.
Outside the Great Hospital in Bishopsgate Street, Sheffield fell from his horse into a ditch.
The 2, 000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.
The St. Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.
The two main forms of horse racing in Great Britain are unobstructed distances races, known as flat racing, and races over fences or over hurdles, known as National Hunt racing.
She is probably a reflex of the Celtic Great Queen goddess Rigantona and may also be associated with the horse goddess Epona.
Armed with guns by trading and having adopted the horse from the Mandan and Hidatsa, by the end of the eighteenth century the Chippewa had migrated from woodlands to the Great Plains and begun to push the Lakota west before them.
*" Single G "-a world famous pacer who won many horse races during the Great Depression
The Plains is home to Great Meadow, a large open-air and open-field facility that hosts several large events throughout the year, including the Virginia Gold Cup steeplechase horse race, which attracts over 50, 000 guests on the first Saturday of each May.
* Waregem is well known for its annual horse races at the local hippodrome, including the Great Flanders Steeple Chase, which takes place the first Tuesday after the last Sunday of August.
* The Great Geppy ( 1940 ): A striped horse ( NOT a zebra ) is hired to solve a robbery at a circus.
A small horse, Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression.
Many major horse races in Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and Australia bear names ending in " 1, 000 Guineas " or " 2, 000 Guineas ", even though the nominal values of their purses today are much higher than the £ 1, 050 or £ 2, 100 suggested by their names.
* Gold Cup Vase or Queen's Vase, a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain which is open to three-year-old thoroughbreds
Whilst out hunting the knight, who was a henchman of Emperor Otto the Great, tied his horse to a tree, in order to pursue some deer through almost impassable terrain.
In the front of 1 Lek coin was the portrait of Alexander the Great, and on the reverse was Alexander on his horse.
Russell learned to ride horses at Hazel Dell Farm near Jerseyville, Illinois on a famous Civil War horse called " Great Britain ".
Great Britain, under Alan Prescott, and boasting world-class backs such as Billy Boston, Mick Sullivan, Jeff Stevenson and Lewis Jones, and a formidable pack, were expected to win with Jacques Merquey's French side a dark horse.
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