Horse races took place here in the Middle Ages.

Brabham himself took a couple of pole positions and two top three finishes, but did not finish half the races.

There will be no night races in Albert Park but 2009 ’ s event started at 5pm and took place between 26 – 29 March.

He had a little more success in the non-championship Formula One races, where he ran his own private Coopers and took two victories.

Bruce won the Race of Champions at the Brands Hatch circuit and Hulme won the International Trophy at Silverstone, both non-championship races, before Bruce took the team's first championship win at the Belgian Grand Prix.

After a while, national teams took over development of body suits, which are also used in short track skating, though without headcover attached to the suit — short trackers wear helmets instead, as falls are more common in mass-start races.

The last known beast-hunt at the Circus Maximus took place in 523, and the last known races there were held by Totila in 549.

The first recorded sled races took place in Norway sometime during the 15th century.

His journey by sea to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji took him via Jamaica, where Albert played doubles tennis partnered with a black man, which was unusual at the time and taken locally as a display of equality between races.

In 1983, the first wheelchair races took place.

In South America, the biggest of these took the form of long distance city to city races, each of around 5, 000 to 6, 000 miles ( 8, 000 – 9, 500 km ), divided into daily legs.

Four years earlier the Major took Stebbins to the finish of a Long Walk and now Stebbins feels that the Major has set him up to be " the rabbit ", motivating other runners to walk farther to prolong the race, just as rabbits are used in dog races.

For Christmas 2011, a new single seater mod came available. The F2 1967 Mod provide new accurate cars shapes, drivers, car sounds and physics. The Formula 2 physics were intended to get close racing online, with most of the cars sharing the same Ford Cosworth FVA 1600cc engine. Despite this, as others GPL mods, the F2 mod benefit of the extended 11 different cars slots with their individual handling. In 1967, drivers took part in no less than 23 Formula 2 races.

These races have long been disregarded because of the belief that they took place at Maghull and not Aintree.

A new era in the race's modern history began in 2005 when John Smith's took over from Martell as main sponsors of the Grand National and many of the other races at the three-day Aintree meeting for the first time.

Four more victories for Hill, three of which were in races where Schumacher was excluded or disqualified, took the title battle to the final event at Adelaide.

However, Schumacher won seven of the next twelve races, and took his second title with two races to spare, while Benetton took the constructors ' championship.

From 1928 to 1936, the RAC Tourist Trophy ( TT ) motor car races took place on a ( closed ) road circuit encompassing Newtownards, Comber and Dundonald in County Down, run in a clockwise direction.

Petra Kronberger won both the combined event and the slalom, while Bonnie Blair won both the 500 m and 1000 m speed skating events and Gunda Niemann took both of the longest races.

* 23-year-old Paavo Nurmi won the 10, 000 m and 8, 000 m cross country races, took another gold in team cross country, and a silver in 5, 000 m run.

Montoya qualified in seventh, and was well set for points in the race but more bad luck, this time due to a brake failure which took him out of fifth place, leaving him without a point after four races.

Leasowe Castle was built by Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby-a patron of Shakespeare-in 1593, possibly ( though this is disputed ) as an observation platform for the Wallasey races which took place on the sands in the 16th and 17th centuries, and which are regarded as a forerunner of the Derby races.

Professional racing organizations place limitations on the bicycles that can be used in the races that they sanction.

Conflict is in fact the basic law of life in all social organisms, as it is of all biological ones ; societies are formed, gain strength, and move forwards through conflict ; the healthiest and most vital of them assert themselves against the weakest and less well adapted through conflict ; the natural evolution of nations and races takes place through conflict.

By the time Ringworld takes place, Kzinti are able to deal with other races diplomatically, rather than by attacking and enslaving them.

In the U. S. all types of races are referred to as regattas whereas this term is only used in the UK for head-to-head or multi-lane races ( such as those that take place at Dorney Lake ), which generally take place in the summer season.

Head races are time trial / processional races that take place from autumn ( fall ) to early spring ( depending on local conditions ).

The government soon started putting laws distinguishing between different races in place.

Each cup consists of five five-lap races, each taking place on a distinct track.

Relay races are also held in short track and inline competitions, but here, exchanges may take place at any time during the race, though exchanges may be banned during the last couple of laps.

Stock car races take place predominantly on oval tracks of 3 or 4 turns, with all turns to the left.

Points races assign value to specific laps throughout a race and riders position in relation to the field, generally the leading rider and occasionally the second place rider will be awarded points.

Most regular venues of major Alpine ski races have a local ROC which remains in place from year to year.

Local estimates place the population of the college, 3, 948 people strong, at about 1 / 8 black, 1 / 2 Jewish, with other races making up the balance.

This procedure has been in place in races for all statewide and legislative offices in Arizona and Maine since 2000.

Due to the fact that the majority of races take place on areas of grass, soil, mud or earth, weather conditions can significantly affect the difficulty of cross country courses, as snow and rain reduces traction and can create areas of standing water.

The Adriatic Sea's high water quality, along with the immense number of coves, islands and channels, makes Dalmatia an attractive place for nautical races, nautical tourism, and tourism in general.

Early records of races are evident on pottery from ancient Greece, which depicted running men vying for first place.

Under the auspices of the Outing Club, Dartmouth also has the Mountaineering Club, which takes on tough climbs like Mount McKinley, and Bait & Bullet, whose interests are self-evident, and even sports a Woodman's Team, which competes with other New England colleges in wood sawing and chopping, canoe races, and the like.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

Prior to the featured race, the stewards announced that apprentice James P. Verrone is suspended ten days for crowding horses and crossing the field sharply in two races on Wednesday.

And on northern shores indomitable sailors from Long Island to Lake Michigan will beat around the buoys in dozens of frostbite races.

Both races continue to be held each January on successive weekends.

His veto message objected to the measure because it conferred citizenship on the freedmen at a time when eleven out of thirty-six states were unrepresented in the Congress, and the bill also attempted to fix, by federal law, " a perfect equality of the white and black races in every State of the Union.

White spots are sometimes present below the eyes, and there may be white markings on the legs and back ; the absence or presence of these white markings may be indicative of distinct races.

Some of Whorf's unpublished manuscripts on spirituality also suggest that he was influenced by the ideas of Helena Blavatsky the founder of the Theosophical Society who wrote about cosmic evolution, a belief that regards reincarnation to be the source of evolution of human races towards continuously higher forms.

At a time when the Southern United States was segregated racially, Bill's grandparents sold goods on credit to people of all races.

" In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible-drawn both from the Old and New Testaments-which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: " The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided ", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was " playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system.

The school appealed the IRS decision all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court, arguing that the University met all other criteria for tax-exempt status and that the school's racial discrimination was based on sincerely held religious beliefs, that " God intended segregation of the races and that the Scriptures forbid interracial marriage.

Recumbent bicycles were banned from bike races in 1934 after Marcel Berthet set a new hour record in his Velodyne streamliner ( 49. 992 km on November 18, 1933 ).

Track bicycles are used for track cycling in Velodromes, while cyclo-cross races are held on outdoor terrain, including pavement, grass, and mud.

The clubs raise money for projects in the local community and hold annual events such as a fireworks display, duck races in the Gorge, a dragon boat race on the reservoir and concerts on the grounds of the nearby St Michael's Cheshire Home.

This has added excitement to several pennant races over the years, most recently in, and ; the first two times the division title was won by the Cubs, the third by the Cardinals, who went on to win the National League pennant as the Cubs faltered in the second half of the 2004 season.

They typically lack the black mark on the forelegs, as is the case in European races.

While not on Earth, Xavier's natural telepathic abilities have reached across space to make universal mental contact with multiple alien races.

There were plans for races at Zandvoort before World War II: the first street race was held on June 3, 1939.

Earnhardt went on to win nine races this season and won his fourth Winston Cup title, beating Mark Martin by 26 points.

Earnhardt's team was re-christened as the No. 29 team, with the same sponsor but with a new look ( a reversed color scheme-white with black numerals and a black stripe on the bottom ) for the following races at Rockingham and Las Vegas.

Gambling, particularly on craps or horse races, was a common theme of Runyon's works, and he was a notorious gambler himself.

In tribute to Jones, Lingfield Park announced that the first two races on the card for 3 March 2012 would be renamed the " Hey Hey We're The Monkees Handicap " and the " In Memory of Davy Jones Selling Stakes " with successful horses in those races accompanied into the Winners ' Enclosure by some of The Monkees ' biggest hits.