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2 unusual facts about Turf


1970 college football season

Down 12-10 after three quarters, the Huskers scored a fourth-quarter touchdown and shut down the Tigers to prevail 17–12 on the new Poly-Turf and claim the national title.

Poly-Turf

The stadium was used for both college and professional football, primarily by the University of Miami Hurricanes and the Miami Dolphins of the NFL.


A Different Turf

A Different Turf is a 1997 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary, the fourteenth book featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone.

Alfred Dieck

For several years he was unemployed, living in the region Bad Reichenhall and Salzburg, being the voluntary director of the International Turf Museum at Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting in Austria.

Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire

The duke followed the family tradition of owning racehorses, the most famous of which was Park Top, the subject of the duke's first published book, A Romance of The Turf: Park Top, which was published in 1976.

Artificial turf

In just 13 years, between 1992 and 2005, the National League went from having half of its teams using artificial turf to all of them playing on natural grass.

Barton Broad

The broad is situated to the south and east of the village of Barton Turf, and is within the parish of Barton Turf.

Braunton Burrows

Deep rooted species such as bramble, hawthorn and willow were also able to flourish and resulted in several sallow carr communities These species were maintained and species rich turf later established through a combination of management techniques.

Charles Willie Mathews

Mathews was very sociable; he was a member of the Turf, Garrick, and Beefsteak Clubs, and was a friend of King Edward VII and King George V.

Count Turf

In the mid-1950s, Amiel dispensed with his ownership of the Turf Restaurant and became a co-owner of next-door's Jack Dempsey's Broadway Restaurant.

Cranbourne, Victoria

Cranbourne has a horse racing club, the Cranbourne Turf Club, which schedules around 22 race meetings a year including the Cranbourne Cup meeting in October.

David Eyres

In May 2007, Eyres made a return to Burnley to play at Turf Moor in the testimonial of another ex-Claret, Graham Branch.

Del Mar Derby

A Grade II race open to three-year-old horses, it is contested on turf over a distance of one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs).

DelCampo International School

It has purchased an artificial turf pitch from Xtreme Turf, manufactured and installed by ACT Global Sports.

Deportivo Petapa

Estadio Julio Armando Cobar home and they added turf last season due to the heavy rains that always hit the region.

Dinotefuran

Dinotefuran is an insecticide of the neonicotinoid class developed by Mitsui Chemicals for control of insect pests such as aphids, whiteflies, thrips, leafhoppers, leafminers, sawflies, mole cricket, white grubs, lacebugs, billbugs, beetles, mealybugs, and cockroaches on leafy vegetables, in residential and commercial buildings, and for professional turf management.

Dubai Meydan City

It has a 2,400 metre left-handed turf race track and a left-handed 8.75-furlong (1,750 metres) Tapeta synthetic dirt course.

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto

In 2009, the club installed a synthetic turf called Xtreme Turf from ACT Global Sports.

Furness Railway K2

They lasted until the late 1920s and early 1930s, performing secondary duties on the home turf, between Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven.

Gene St. Leon

On February 7, 1976, St. Leon rode Toonerville to a world record time of 1:51 2/5 for one and three sixteenth miles on turf in winning the second division of the Bougainvillea Handicap at Hialeah Park Race Track.

George Alexander Baird

Baird's London house - 36 Curzon Street - came to him during an evening of dining and drinking with it's then owner Sir George Chetwynd, another man of the turf.

Gladiateur

Gladiateur is called a legend by France Galop and "One of the best horses ever to grace the turf in any century" by the National Sporting Library of Middleburg, Virginia.

Gleann Nimhe – The Poison Glen

"The Turf Cutter" - composed by Paddy O'Brien (of Daingean, Co. Offaly, and Saint Paul, Minnesota, in honor of his late father Christy O'Brien);

Golden Missile

He followed that up win in a nine furlong turf race in the Cumberland Stakes at Ellis Park winning by 5 lengths.

Greentech

GreenTech ITM, a U.S.-based company that creates modular turf systems

Henry Hawley Smart

He was the son of Major George Smart and his wife Katherine, daughter of Sir Joseph Henry Hawley, 3rd Baronet (1813–1875), a wealthy racehorse owner, bibliophile and advocate of turf reform, and his wife Sarah (née Crosbie), who came from a landed Sussex family.

Jack Dempsey's Broadway Restaurant

Located next door to Jack Amiel's "Turf Restaurant" on Times Square, Amiel became famous as the owner of the "underdog" horse Count Turf who won the 1951 Kentucky Derby.

Kiwitea Street

Following consultations with the Auckland City Council and the New Zealand Turf Culture Institute, a bold plan was implemented to develop an all-weather, sand carpeted pitch at Central – similar to those at Eden Park and the MCG – over a three-year period.

Labor federation competition in the United States

A stumpy Jewish immigrant from the London ghetto, Sam Gompers was shaped by the world of his father, who rolled rich cheroots and aromatic panatelas in cigar-making lofts on New York's Lower East Side... the rollers that young Gompers joined were educated men, their craft an ancient skill, their union like that of the medieval guilds, designed as much to protect their hard-won turf from less-skilled workers as to wrest concessions from their employers.

Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse

The Hippodrome de Maisons-Laffitte at 1 avenue de la Pelouse in the northwestern Parisian suburb of Maisons-Laffitte in France is a turf horse racing facility and track for Thoroughbred flat racing.

Mallard Creek High School

The school has a football stadium (with a turf field), a baseball–softball complex, and a large gymnasium, as well as an adjoining practice gymnasium, tennis courts, and soccer fields.

Miami Mile Handicap

Open to horses age three and older, it is contested on turf over a distance of 1 mile (8 furlongs).

Moe Island

The island has been designated an Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA 109) mainly for its biological values, especially the banks of ChorisodontiumPolytrichum moss turf and AndreaeaUsnea fellfield.

New York Turf Writers Cup

A Grade I event on the turf for 4-year-olds and up, this race offers a purse of $150,000.

Official Irish Republican Army

However it retained a strong presence in certain localities, notably the Lower Falls, Andersonstown, Turf Lodge and the Markets areas of Belfast, along with a big presence in Derry but particularly Free Derry in the Bogside area as well as Newry and South Down.

Patmore Heath

Lots of the turf throughout the SSSI is dominated by Deschampsia, as well as occurrences of Anthoxanthum odoratum.

Philip Russell Rendel Dunne

A member of White's, the Turf and Jockey clubs, Dunne was Joint Master of the Warwickshire Hounds from 1932 to 1935, retiring when elected a Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament for the Stalybridge and Hyde division of Cheshire at the 1935 general election, with a majority of 5,081 over Labour.

Presious Passion

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

RHS Garden, Wisley

In April 2005 Alan Titchmarsh cut the turf to mark the start of construction of the Bicentenary Glasshouse.

Singapore Turf Club

It is today the only horse-racing club in Singapore and is part of the Malayan Racing Association, which also regulates the three Turf Clubs in Malaysia, the Selangor Turf Club, Penang Turf Club and Perak Turf Club

Sir Walter Buffalo Turf

Sir Walter Premium Lawn Turf is a variety of Australian-bred soft-leaf Buffalo Grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) first developed in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.

Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet

Clarke also took interest in various forms of sport, his yacht, the Janet, won several races, but he was not very successful on the turf; the most important race he won being the V.R.C. Oaks.

Stinson Model A

With posturing from both AOA and Australian National Airways (ANA) to cut into each other’s turf by late 1936, early efforts by ANA to gain a controlling interest in AOA failed, until the tragic losses of VH-UHH Brisbane in the McPherson Ranges on 19 February 1937 and VH-UGG Lismore on 28 March halved AOA’s main-line fleet.

Strike a Deal

In the summer of 2007, he ran second in both the grade three Colonial Turf Cup at one mile and three sixteenths (9.5 furlongs) in mid-June and the Virginia Derby at one mile and a quarter (10 furlongs) in Mid-July, both run at Colonial Downs in New Kent County, Virginia on the turf course.

Telus Field

Telus Field uses natural grass in the outfield and FieldTurf in the infield; originally AstroTurf was used but it was replaced in 2005 with the more modern type of turf, FieldTurf.

The Gerry Ryan Show

These included the scenery, Guinness, potatoes, the seas and coastline, whiskey, Barry's and Lyon's tea, Kimberley and Mikado biscuits, the smell of turf, red hair, homemade brown bread, oysters, Baileys coffee, hurling, Irish comedians, Irish history, the River Shannon, Podge and Rodge, Irish literature, bacon and cabbage, Irish stew and the GAA.

Tomas O'Crohan

Ó Criomhthain harvested turf for home fuel from the top of the island and the sods were carried home by an ass.

Tropical Turf Handicap

The Tropical Turf Handicap is an American Grade IIIT Thoroughbred horse race run on the turf course at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida each year.

University Hall Turf Field

The Turf Field features a blue surface similar to the one used at the Riverbank Arena in London and was used by the United States women's national field hockey team prior to the 2012 Olympics for this reason.

Upali Wijewardene

He was the Chairman Board of Stewards of the Sri Lanka Turf Club and was a keen turfite, who raced in Sri Lanka and England, where he won the "Royal Ascot" with "Rasa Penang" ridden by the world famous jockey Lester Piggott.


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