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Breeders' Cup Grand National Steeplechase

The race has been held at Belmont Park, at Saratoga Race Course, and at Morris Park racetracks, as well as the steeplechase meets at Fair Hill, Maryland and Charlottesville, Virginia.


Aidan O'Brien

The season however ended on a very sad note after George Washington was put down after breaking down in the Breeders Cup Classic.

Allaire du Pont

The Grade III Pimlico Breeders' Cup Distaff Handicap at Pimlico Race Course was renamed the Allaire du Pont Breeders' Cup Distaff in her memory.

Arthur B. Hancock III

Through H-G-W Partners, Hancock owned and raced 1989 U.S. Horse of the Year Sunday Silence whose wins included the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Breeders' Cup Classic.

Banks Hill

She had an outstanding year at age three, winning the Prix de Sandringham at Chantilly Racecourse and England's Group 1 Coronation Stakes at Ascot Racecourse before being sent to Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, There, she gave Juddmonte Farms their first ever Breeders' Cup win with an impressive 5½-length victory in the October 27 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

Betta raja

When maintaining the aquariums for these species, instead of using substrate, breeders go for driftwood roots or branches, bark of Beech or oak and position them in a way that offers some kind of shades to the fish.

Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile

4. the Clásico Copa de Oro, a Grade 2 race at Club Hípico de Santiago in Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile.

Breeders' Cup trophies

This is evidence of a scientific as well as an artistic intention on the part of the artist and reveals the importance to him of the influence and example of Leonardo da Vinci.

British Columbia Derby

The British Columbia Breeders' Cup Derby is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the third week of September at Hastings Racecourse in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Bullish Luck

He was sold by his breeders at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale to Gordon Smyth who named him "Al Moughazel" and sent him to Newmarket for training under Pip Payne.

Carpathian Shepherd Dog

The club was later renamed the National Club of Carpathian Shepherd Dog Breeders which is based in The club observed that there many Carpathians in Rucăr, Argeş County that are considered ancestors of today's Carpathians.

Channel 4 Racing

Internationally, it has covered a number of events over the years, including the Breeders' Cup between 1990 and 1992 on location in the United States and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in France between 1986 and 1994, as well as in 2001.

Dancer's Image

Eventually his owners sold the colt and in 1974 he was sent to breeders in Ireland then in 1979 to Haras du Quesnay at Deauville, France owned by renowned breeder Alec Head.

Distaff

From 1984 until 2007 at the American Breeders' Cup World Championships, the major race for fillies and mares was the Breeders' Cup Distaff (beginning in 2008, the event is referred to as the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic. Starting in 2013 the name of the race changed back to being called the Breeders' Cup Distaff).

Domedriver

Jockey Thierry Thulliez, riding in his first ever Breeders' Cup race, guided Domedriver to an upset win over the heavily favored Rock of Gibraltar who had come into the race having won a world record seven straight Group One races.

Don Coldsmith

In addition, Coldsmith and his 2nd wife Edna were cattle ranchers and breeders of Appaloosa horses.

Edward Burnett

He was among the breeders who were originators of the Boston Terrier.

Esa Tikkanen

The 1994 Breeders' Cup Turf was won by Tikkanen, a Thoroughbred racehorse named in Esa Tikkanen's honor by George W. Strawbridge, Jr., owner of Augustin Stable and an active director of the Buffalo Sabres NHL ice hockey club and a member of the team's executive committee for more than thirty years.

Francine Villeneuve

On November 2, 1991 Villeneuve became the first woman to ride in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, and was the second in any Breeders' Cup race, as American Julie Krone had previously ridden at the Breeders' Cup in both 1988 and 1989.

George Watts Hill

Hill eventually acquired Guernsey cattle, which he continued to breed and sell for decades, becoming one of the top Guernsey breeders in the nation.

Glan Cattle

The first breed associations were founded in 1880 in Meisenheim and Quirnbach, later followed in 1898 by the Glan-Donnersberg Breeding Association based in Kaiserslautern and in 1912 the revived Association of the Rhenish Glan Cattle Breeding Cooperatives (later Association of the Rhenish Glan Cattle Breeders).

Haras de Jardy

Haras de Jardy would gain such a reputation that it was visited by horse owners and breeders from around the world, including King Edward VII in 1905, Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 and Nikita Khrushchev in 1961.

House of Sanguszko

Hieronymous Sanguszko (1743–1812) founded the Slavuta stud, establishing the family as breeders of Arabian horses.

Imperial Choice

In a year when Imperial Choice won major Canadian races in British Columbia, Albeerta, and Ontario, he ran second in both the 1985 Queen's Plate and the Breeders' Stakes at Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack but in between, won the Prince of Wales Stakes at the Fort Erie Racetrack.

Indian wild ass

At this place Rebaris (camel and sheep breeders) live in the Prosopis juliflora jungles in the company of chinkaras, hyenas, common fox, desert cat and wolf etc.

Javier Castellano

In 2004, Javier Castellano got his big break when he was the rider for Frank Stronach's colt Ghostzapper on whom he won several major races including the 2004 Breeders' Cup Classic.

John Oxx

In 1995 he trained Ridgewood Pearl, bred and owned by Sean and Anne Coughlan, to victories in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot, the Prix du Moulin at Longchamp, and the Breeders' Cup Mile at Belmont Park, in America, meaning that the filly had six wins from eight races and that she had won Group One races in four different countries in the same season.

Jonathan E. Sheppard

In both venues, he has had a long working relationship with stable owner, George W. Strawbridge, Jr. and in 2008 he conditioned Strawbridge's filly Forever Together to victory in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

Kevin R. Cleary

2010 Eclipse Award - Outstanding National Television - Live Racing Programming - "The Breeders Cup" ESPN Kevin Cleary, Senior Audio Producer

2011 Eclipse Award - Outstanding National Television Live Racing Programming - "The Breeders Cup" ESPN Kevin Cleary, Senior Audio Producer

New York Breeders' Futurity

The New York Breeders' Futurity is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually since 1963 at the Finger Lakes Race Track in Farmington, New York.

Normanton-on-the-Wolds

Also the Ives family’s Rushcliffe Breeders farm to the north of the village keeps a small, but conspicuous, Llama herd.

Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever

Breeders are working to prevent losing heterozygosity and to maintain sufficient genetic variations, but high kinship value means the breed is not able to maintain a steady level of inbreeding in the long term.

Ogden Mills Phipps

Dinny Phipps and his father were two of the subjects in the 2003 book Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders by race historian Edward L. Bowen that chronicled the history of Thoroughbred racing's most influential breeders.

Opening Verse

Entered in the 1991 Breeders' Cup Mile, held that year at Churchill Downs, Opening Verse was up against what racecaller Tom Durkin described as "an exceptionally strong field" with stars such as Priolo, the French Champion Three-Year-Old Colt, and In Excess, the American Horse of the Year contender and betting favorite who came into the race having won four Grade 1 races that year.

Pat O'Brien Handicap

The race, also known as the Pat O'Brien Breeders' Cup Handicap, is open to horses age three and up willing to race seven furlongs on Polytrack synthetic dirt, and currently carries a purse of $250,000.

Presious Passion

American turf writer Steve Haskin has described this as one of the best losing performances in Breeders' Cup history.

Red-necked Grebe

This is particularly noticeable in autumn on the Great Lakes, when up to 18,000 birds may pass Whitefish Point on Lake Superior; these are thought to be Canadian breeders heading for the Atlantic Ocean to winter.

Rooster potato

It was originally bred at the Teagasc Oak Park Research Centre in Carlow by Harry Kehoe who was one of the top potato breeders at Oak Park Research Centre, Ireland.

Slew o' Gold

After the Breeders' Cup, Slew o' Gold was retired to stand at stud at Three Chimneys Farm near Midway, Kentucky.

Smart Strike

He suffered a condylar fracture during a workout while preparing for the Breeders' Cup.

Sokoke

This original landrace variety, the defining traits of which the Sokoke breed was later developed to formalize and preserve, was locally named Khadzonzo by the Giriama people of Kenya, who had known of the variety for a considerable time, possibly centuries before the intervention of Western fanciers and breeders.

Sunshine Millions Dash

The Sunshine Millions series of races are restricted to horses bred either in Florida or in California and is the brainchild of the Thoroughbred Owners of California, the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association, Inc., Santa Anita Park, Gulfstream Park, and Magna Entertainment Corp..

Thomcord

Thomcord was developed in 1983 by Californian grape breeders working for the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), as part of a test to better understand a new seedless grape breeding procedure.

Zen Circus

This collaboration led to Villa Inferno (2008, Unhip), an album that included guest performances by Kim and Kelley Deal (Pixies, Breeders), Jerry Harrison (Modern Lovers, Talking Heads), and Giorgio Canali (CSI, Rossofuoco ).

Zensational

Zensational will face a heavy field of sprint horses at their best, the $2 million Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Sprint at the Oak Tree Meeting at Santa Anita Park will include Kentucky Cup Sprint winner, El Brujo, Forego Handicap winner Pyro and winner of the 2009 Ancient Title Stake going 6 furlongs, Gayego, hold a spot also.


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