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unusual facts about Grade 2


Grade 2

Grade 2 horse races, the second tier in worldwide horse racing.



see also

Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle

Prestige Novices' Hurdle, a Grade 2 race held at Haydock Park in February.

River Don Novices' Hurdle, a Grade 2 race held at Doncaster in late January or early February.

Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile

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

Chingford Mount

Built in 1939, it was designed by the architect N.F. Cachemaille-Day and is a grade 2 listed building.

English Braille

In the finalized form as of 2013, UEB upgrades English Braille Grade 2 (the literary coding used in several slightly-variable forms in different countries), obsoletes Computer Braille Code by making email/website/programming syntax part of literary coding, and in some ways competes with Nemeth Code by adding additional math-notation (albeit Taylor-style with the numerals overwriting letters rather than overwriting punctuation as in Nemeth) to the literary coding.

Kebnekaise

Most of this route to the top is pure hiking, but there is a short exposed part that could possibly count as scrambling (YDS grade 2).

Levisham railway station

The building, now Grade 2 listed, stands today encroaching onto the down (western) platform and still displays many characteristics of the Y&NM's architect George Townsend Andrews.

Nigel Poett

He travelled to the regimental depot in County Durham, and after two weeks at Brancepeth Castle running troop exercises, he was informed that he had been promoted to the rank of Major and appointed a General Staff Officer Grade 2.

OLBG Mares' Hurdle

Warfield Mares' Hurdle, a Grade 2 race run at Ascot Racecourse in January

Straw Bear

His first notable win came in April 2006 at Aintree Racecourse in Aintree, Liverpool, England where he won the John Smith's Imagine Appeal Top Novices' Hurdle, a Grade 2 National Hunt race.

Tidal Bay

Tidal Bay then pulled off a shock when winning the Grade 2 Cleeve Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival Trials meeting beating ace hurdlers Lough Derg and Katchit as well as the potentially top class chaser Time For Rupert.