Thoroughbred racing is divided into two codes: flat racing and jump races.

Novice jumping races involve horses that are starting out a jumping career, including horses that previously were trained in flat racing.

Within the general category of Thoroughbred flat racing, there exist two separate types of races.

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 Great Britain, there are races which involve obstacles ( either hurdles or fences ) called National Hunt racing and those which are unobstructed races over a given distance ( flat racing ).

Japan conducts more than 21, 000 horse races a year in one of three types: flat racing, jump racing ( races over hurdles ), and Ban ' ei Racing ( also called Draft Racing ).

The race carries a purse of ¥ 142. 5 million ( about US $ 1. 68 million ). But in Japan, jump races is generally less popular than flat ones.

In most horse races, including both flat and steeplechases, the pedigree of the horse is one of the things that allow it to race: the horse must have a sire ( father ) and a dam ( mother ) who are purebred individuals of whatever breed is racing.

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.

Indeed, nearly all North American races are flat races, as steeplechase racing is very infrequent and largely confined to short, specialized race meets.

In Great Britain, ( and the majority of Europe ) flat racing is split into two distinctive bands, conditions races and handicaps.

Classic Races-In British horse racing, The Classics are a series of horse races run over the flat ( i. e. without jumps ).

* List of British flat horse races

* List of French flat horse races

* List of Irish flat horse races

The course held steeplechase and flat races.

Among human-powered vehicle enthusiasts, Battle Mountain is known for hosting annual bike races on a long, straight, flat stretch of Highway 305 just outside of town.

One of the first races they sponsored was the John Smith's Cup ( originally the Magnet Cup ) at York in 1960, which is the longest running sponsorship in flat racing in the world.

Though simple and compound walls were often used, Great Houses were primarily constructed of core-and-veneer walls: two parallel load-bearing walls comprising dressed, flat sandstone blocks bound in clay mortar were erected.

The two flat plains that take up three quarters of Hungary's area are the Great Hungarian Plain and the Little Hungarian Plain.

Near Djelfa, in the Great Atlas, and at Mechra-Sfa (" ford of the flat stones "), a peninsula in the valley of the river Mina not far from Tiaret, are vast numbers of megalithic monuments.

Where a fabric or wallpaper in the Great Exhibition might be decorated with a natural motif made to look as real as possible, a Morris & Co. wallpaper, like the Artichoke design illustrated ( right ), would use a flat and simplified natural motif.

The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, which lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada.

It flowed through the Great Hungarian Plain, which is one of the largest flat areas in central Europe.

Benalla is situated on a mostly flat floodplain of the Broken River catchment situated directly to the north and west of the Great Dividing Range.

Traralgon is situated on expansive flat land in the Traralgon Creek valley catchment between the Great Dividing Range in the north and the Strzelecki Ranges in the south.

Originally the Earth ( Arda ) was flat, the continents were surrounded by a mighty ocean ( or perhaps by space ), Ekkaia or Vaiya, the Encircling Sea, and separated by Belegaer, called the Great Sea and the Sundering Seas.

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.

* 1938 – Great floods on Los Angeles River and other streams on the Valley's flat plain kill 144 and highlight that many areas of the Valley are wide dry washes, unsuitable for development.

The landscape of the county is typical of the Great Plains with flat topography and gently rolling hills, while the areas in the north are marked by the Wichita Mountains.

Comanche County lies in an area that is typical of the Great Plains with prairie, few trees, and generally flat topography with gently rolling hills.

The western portion of the county ( east of the Dolores River Canyon and along the Utah border ) is the northern portion of the Great Sage Plain, relatively low ( 6500 – 7500 feet in elevation ) and flat ( but cut by large canyons, including that of the Dolores River itself ), and consists of irrigated and dryland farming areas ; it is especially well known for the cultivation of various varieties of beans, including pinto beans and many variety of old Anasazi beans.

Lawton's landscape is typical of the Great Plains with flat topography and gently rolling hills, while the area north of the city is marked by the Wichita Mountains.

Lawton lies in an area that is typical of the Great Plains with prairie, few trees, and flat topography with gently rolling hills.

To the west is a large, flat region of desert scrub, eventually giving way to marshlands on the edge of the Great Salt Lake.

The Nullarbor Plain ( ; Latin: nullus, " no ", and arbor, " tree ") is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its north.

The Great Northern began construction first on the Peterborough to Gainsborough section of the loop line, as the ease of construction over the flat fens promised an earlier return on investment.

In Ireland and Britain, flat top and back instruments are often used.

These two lines cross on the level, which is one of a handful of flat crossings in Britain.

* In 1955 in Britain Wooler produced a small number of 500 cc flat opposed fours with shaft drive.

Following the victory of Britain and its allies, Spare had moved into a small flat at 8 Gilbert Place in Bloomsbury, Central London, where he lived alone ; although they never gained a divorce, Spare had separated from his wife Eily, who had begun a relationship with another man.

* Gold Cup Vase or Queen's Vase, a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain which is open to three-year-old thoroughbreds

Later, much of Great Britain was submerged in shallow waters as the polar ice sheets melted and the Tethys Ocean and Zechstein Sea formed, depositing shale, limestone, gravel, and marl, before finally receding to leave a flat desert with salt pans.

Though in Britain the flat cap is frequently worn as part of an " urban " or " street " look favoured by the working classes and thus, the balance is maintained.

The Lockinge Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older.

The Coronation Cup is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older.

The 1, 000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred fillies.

The Oaks Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred fillies.

The St. James's Palace Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts.

The Queen Anne Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older.

The Prince of Wales's Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older.

The Gold Cup is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older.

The Coronation Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred fillies.

The Diamond Jubilee Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older.

The Eclipse Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older.

The Falmouth Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbred fillies and mares aged three years or older.