A-Z of Horse Racing (Part 2)

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    Human Brains - in 2003 an employee at a forensic laboratory in Queensland, Australia, was alleged to have stolen pituitary glands from the brains of (presumably dead) people to use as a stimulant for racehorses.
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    Inverness Raceway, Inverness, Nova Scotia
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    Jamaica - three racehorse trainers have been shot dead at Caymanas Park since 2004.
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    King George Stakes, Goodwood
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    Lavatories - a female reviewer on TripAdvisor writes that Ludlow has the most superior ladies toilets she has ever used at a race meeting.
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    Monksfield - small but beauifully formed
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    Non-Trier (Video 1:03) - check out the horse in the red & white colours sitting in second place as the footage begins.

    If anyone knows of a more outrageous example of a horse being stopped then please let me know.
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    ^ OMG, as I believe the young 'uns say
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    Metaire - former racecourse in New Orleans. Closed in 1872 and turned into a cemetary.

    Punters Graveyard.
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    Quickly. US bred mare who ran 85 times winning 32 and placed in 27. Dam of Count Fleet, US Triple Crown winner, who was a great grandsire of Mill Reef.
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    Rouf....4/1
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    Saucebox - shortest priced winner of the Lincoln at evens (in 1855). Went on to take the St Leger the same year.
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    Tercentenary Stakes
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    Uxizandre - very useful horse. Can be used for U, X or Z as required.
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    Victoria Cup Handicap
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    Winter Fred. The only person to have won the Gold Cup, the Champion Hurdle, the Grand National and the King George as a jockey and a trainer.
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    Big Dipper wrote: »
    Uxizandre - very useful horse. Can be used for U, X or Z as required.

    uXizandre then!
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    Yemen - probable birthplace of the Godolphin Arabian (c. 1724) before being exported to Tunisia. In 1729 the horse went from there to France arriving in Britain in the 1730s.
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    Zarrafakt
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    August. The month in which the first incarnation of The Lincolnshire Handicap was run at Lincoln in 1849.
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    British Champions Long Distance Cup, Ascot
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    Cook, Danny - jockey attached to Brian Ellison's stable at Malton.

    Between March 2009 & April 2010 Cook took the wrong course in no fewer than 3 different races resulting in bans of 12, 22 & 28 days.

    Cook's nickname among his fellow riders is Satnav.
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    :)

    Deauville-La Touques Racecourse, Deauville
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    Egypt - some reputable sources claim that horse races were contested as early as 1500 B.C. in Egypt.

    I'm guessing, though, that horse racing began earlier than that when somebody said to somebody else that their horse was the fastest, and a contest was arranged to prove it one way or the other.
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    Furlong pole
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