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2 unusual facts about Grade 1

Grade 1

A Grade 1 horse race, the top level of race in worldwide horseracing

Kasama College of Education, originally known as Kasama Teachers Training college (KTTC), is a government tertiary learning institution training teachers at Diploma level to handle grades 1-7 in Zambian schools.

Dean McKeown

Riding Collier Hill, McKeown won a number of major international races, including the 2005 Group 2 Gerling-Preis in Cologne, Germany, the C$2 million Grade 1 Canadian International at Woodbine Racetrack in Canada, and the HK$14 million Hong Kong Vase in Hong Kong, China.

Hollywood Gold Cup top three finishers

This is a listing of the horses that finished in first, second, and third place (and the number of starters) in the Hollywood Gold Cup, an American Grade 1 race for three-year-olds and up at 1 1/4 miles (on dirt, 1938-2006 and the synthetic surface, 'Cushion Track', since 2007), held at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California.

Ian Wilkes

Now a resident of Louisville, Kentucky and training on his own, Wilkes earned his first Grade 1 win with Capt. Candyman Can in the 2009 King's Bishop Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

Kentucky Oaks top three finishers

This is a listing of the horses that finished in either first, second, or third place and the number of starters in the Kentucky Oaks, the first leg of the defacto American Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, an American Grade 1 race for three year-old fillies at 1-1/8 miles (9 furlongs) on the dirt held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

Rajiv Maragh

Rapidly developing into a top jockey since moving north to compete at NYRA tracks, in 2009 he has been a winner of several Grade 1 races.

Ridgewood Pearl

Ridgewood Pearl (1992-2003) was an Irish-based Thoroughbred racehorse who in 1995 won four Group/Grade 1 races in four different countries including over male horses in the Breeders' Cup Mile at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.

Stately Victor

Owned by Thomas F. and Jack Conway, the latter once a Kentucky Democratic Party candidate for the United States Senate, Stately Victor won the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on April 10, 2010, prior to running in the Kentucky Derby.

Thomas P. Whitney

A fan of Thoroughbred racing, as a hobby Whitney owned and raced several horses, most notably winning the Grade 1 Diana Handicap in 1983.

Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle

Spa Novices' Hurdle, a Grade 1 race held during the Cheltenham Festival in March.

Albert Hall, Nottingham

The organ has been awarded a Grade 1 listing by the British Institute of Organ Studies.

Fairford

Grade 1 listed by English Heritage, St. Mary's is of national historical and architectural importance because it houses the most complete set of mediaeval stained glass windows in the country, attributed to Barnard Flower, and its structure and details remains unaltered since originally built.

Margaret Dunn

While in Scotland she joined the grade 1 Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band|Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe

Marilyn Jager Adams

Dr. Adams was Senior Author of the Kindergarten and Grade 1 levels of Open Court Publishing Company's 1995 reading and writing program, "Collections for Young Scholars"; the research-documented efficacy of this program (Foorman et al., 1998) was arguably a major impetus for the focus on better classroom reading programs within the Reading First component of the No Child Left Behind Act.

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.