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  Henry VII on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
1457-1509, king of England (1485-1509) and founder of the Tudor dynasty.
The man who would be king Blair Worden praises this vivid Life of Perkin Warbeck, the Flemish boatman's son who staked a claim for Henry VII's throne
Henry VII and the shaping of the Tudor state: Sean Cunningham highlights the importance of 'rule by recognisance' in the reign of the first Tudor monarch.(Talking Points)
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 King Edward VII Stakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The King Edward VII Stakes is a Group 2 United Kingdom flat racing horse race for three year old colts and geldings run over a distance of 1 mile 4 furlongs (2414 m) at Ascot Racecourse during June.
First run in 1834, and called the Ascot Derby Stakes until 1925.
The race was originally open to both sexes but on its renaming in 1926 the current entry restrictions came into place.
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 Henry VII on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A minor count of the house of Luxembourg, Henry was elected German king on the death of King Albert I after the electors had set aside the two main contenders, Albert's eldest son, Frederick of Austria, and the French prince Charles of Valois.
Leaving Rome, he besieged Florence, but without success; in 1313, having allied himself with King Frederick II of Sicily, he pronounced the ban of the empire against King Robert of Naples, who opposed Henry's policy in Italy.
Henry VII's abortive Italian campaign only served to prove the futility of any attempt to revive the ancient imperial policy at a time when the papacy and S Italy were controlled by France and the N Italian towns were autonomous.
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 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Edward VII
Edward VII was on the throne, his mother, Queen Victoria, having died the previous February...
King Edward VII School is reputed to be the oldest school in South Africa, at 110 years old, according to Dow...
Edward took the throne in 1901 when he was approximately 60 years old, and his tenure was a relatively short one because he died in 1910.
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 Sport | Red Bloom to be the main attraction
He seemed to be a natural for the Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes on tomorrow's card, and it looks significant that Stoute has decided to keep Promotion at 10 furlongs for the time being.
The King Edward VII Stakes and the Queen's Vase must rank as two of the worst Group races ever run at Royal Ascot.
In a normal year Barati (3.05) would not look up to the standard required for the King Edward VII Stakes, but in a race that has cut up badly John Oxx's colt might be good enough.
sport.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4950552-108367,00.html   (720 words)

  
 Andante; Edward Elgar; Elgar: Violin Concerto - Cockaigne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
EDWARD Elgar and Birmingham is the title of the current exhibition at the composer's birthplace in Lower Broadheath.
I can't understand why Edward Thomas isn't a better-known poet than the small number of Google search results indicates he must be.
Edward was in the chorus, although essentially the whole thing was some songs.
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 www.brainint.co.uk - Scientific Pedigree Analysis - Ribot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
From that pinnacle in the family history, it was no less than 80 years before Ribot' s direct branch of the family exhibited signs that it was undergoing a transformation.
Then in 1928 the colt Cyclonic won the Jockey Club Stakes, the Gordon Stakes, and the King Edward VII Stakes at Ascot, signalling that a revival that had started several generations earlier was firmly underway.
In 1937, his brother Solfo further established the credentials of this emerging line in repeating Cyclonic' s victories in the Jockey Club Stakes and King Edward VII Stakes.
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 J.J. Maher
Princess Sterling's dam, Sterling Balm (1899), was a very good race filly, near the top of her generation at age 2, having won the Gimcrack Stakes and the Coventry Stakes, and at three a winner of the Fern Hill Stakes at Ascot.
He went on to win the King Edward VII Stakes (12 furlongs), and then came his St. Leger win, by four lengths, again coming from behind, as was his style.
She ran six times at ages 2 and 3 in Ireland, placing in the Anglesey Stakes, and two minor races at age 3, although by then Maher was dead.
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 Brahminy Kite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mark Johnston left in King Edward VII Stakes runner-up Brahminy Kite at yesterday’s confirmation stage, but connections have yet to decide on his...
His last run saw him narrowly beaten into third in the King Edward VII Stakes at the Royal meeting, form which was upheld when runner-up Brahminy Kite ran a...
The remaining runner is Mark Johnston's King Edward VII Stakes second Brahminy Kite.
www.conservation.mongabay.com /news/Brahminy_Kite.htm   (1791 words)

  
 Rosicrucian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ascot Stakes 4023m=20f Ascot, Eng.; Criterion Stakes 1207m=6f Newmarket, Eng.; Queen Alexandra Stakes 4494m Ascot, Eng.
Full sister: CHAPLET (br f 1872) was dam of: MORION (b c 1887 BARCALDINE)[winner of the Craven Stakes 1609m=8f Newmarket; Gold Cup 4023m=20f Ascot; and the Royal Hunt Cup 1548m Ascot ];{and also proved a nice producing line}..
Her daughter DEFIANCE (ch f 1816 RUBENS) was sent to TRAMP producing: DANGEROUS (ch c 1830)[a winner of the Derby Stakes 2414m-12f]..his full sister; DESIGN (ch f 1827){was 2nd dam to THE EMPEROR (ch c 1841 DEFENCE)[a winner of the Gold Cup{twice} 4923m=20f Ascot]..
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 Sport | Dettori's a six-shooter
Market rival High Accolade - second in the St Leger and winner of the King Edward VII Stakes last year - was hard-ridden with more than half a mile to run and Dettori was able to sweep into the lead in the home straight to win with maximum authority.
Doyen was immediately promoted to favouritism with most bookmakers for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, run here next month, in which he will meet the Derby winner North Light.
Red Fort put up an astonishing performance in the Wolferton Stakes on Friday winning by eight lengths in a fast time and I was most taken with Godolphin's Zosima, third in Wednesday's Sandringham Handicap under top weight on her first run since moving from Eion Harty in the United States.
sport.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4952081-108367,00.html   (826 words)

  
 Horse Racing: Rule Of Law States Case for Irish Derby
June 22: After missing the King Edward VII Stakes through injury Rule of Law looks set to challenge North Light at the Curragh.
Godolphin's six Ascot winners would almost certainly have been seven if Rule of Law had been able to run in the King Edward VII Stakes.
A low-grade respiratory infection kept the Vodafone Derby runner-up in his box at home, but Rule Of Law has made a speedy recovery and is on course to cross swords with North Light for the third time this season in Sunday's Irish Derby at the Curragh.
www.buzzle.com /editorials/6-21-2004-55730.asp   (619 words)

  
 www.brainint.co.uk - Scientific Pedigree Analysis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Having already won the Listed Predominant Stakes at Goodwood and the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes at Ascot, along with a second in the Group 3 Gordon Stakes, High Accolade rounded off a highly successful three-year-old season with a fighting 2nd in the St Leger.
Unluckiest loser of the whole meeting was undoubtedly Helm Bank, badly blocked for a run twice while trying to thread his way from last place in the final furlong of the 29 runner Britannia Stakes, only to lose by a neck at 33/1 to a lone bolter on the far side of the course.
Second placegetter Acclamation in the King's Stand had an Official rating of 105, while third placegetter Baron's Pit in the Group 1 Golden Jubilee had an Official Rating of 108.
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 January 2000 California Thoroughbred
Although the 1956 Horse of the Year scored all but one of his 14 stakes victories on the dirt, he was one of the first Cal-breds to win a major turf event.
He was victorious in England's Hyperion Stakes at two and captured France's Prix Jean Prat in his three-year-old debut in 1969.
He won the Secretariat Stakes on the turf at Arlington Park, captured the Lawrence Realization Stakes on the turf at Belmont Park, and topped off his banner year at Woodbine in Canada, winning the Canadian International Championship Stakes.
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 Lee Edwards Excerpt - Chapter 13   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Reagan apparently first encountered the idea of missile defense in 1967 when he visited Edward Teller, the "father" of the hydrogen bomb, in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
For Reagan, Nicaragua was "another Cuba"; for the Democratic leadership in Congress, it was "another Vietnam." Believing that the vital interests of the nation were at stake, each side dug in hard and prepared for political war.
Edward Teller in Recollections of Reagan, edited by Peter Hannaford (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997), p.
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 Aga Khan Studs - HISTORY - More Derby Doubles
He held on by half a length from the late burst of Dancing Brave who was in a near hopeless position at Tattenham Corner.
The Curragh was just the sort of galloping track that suited Shahrastani and he eventually left the King Edward VII Stakes winner Bonhomie trailing eight lengths behind.
saw merit where no one else did and in return she bred for him the King Edward VII Stakes winner Skyraider and the Irish Oaks winner Amante.
www.agakhanstuds.com /history/ch12.asp   (559 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - Sport - Rival teams in battle royal
Balakheri was a poor third in the Dante before improving to land the King Edward VII Stakes at Ascot, but his future could lie in longer races, as Stoute said after that win: "I could see him as a Leger horse but let’s take it step by step."
Saeed Bin Surror suggested yesterday that Grandera, the 9/4 second favourite for the Sandown race, may instead go for the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot.
Noverre was second in the Juddmonte Lockinge Stakes at Newbury last month, while the lightly-raced four-year-old Equerry maintained his unbeaten record with victory in the Group Three La Coupe at Longchamp earlier this month.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /sport.cfm?id=708222002   (903 words)

  
 Grey Leg
His best win was the Princes of Wales' Stakes, and in the 1890s he was standing at the Duke of Westminster's Eaton stud for 100 guineas (Bend Or was standing at 200 guineas at the time), intended to be used as a sire of carriage horses.
Of his thoroughbred offspring, the unfashionably-bred SILVER SPRAY (1912,from Tiber, by St. Angelo) was his best filly on the turf, winning six of her ten starts at age two, including Doncaster's Hopeful Stakes and Epsom's Caterham Plate, and placing second twice, and third, to Silver Tag and Lady Josephine in the Cliftonville Plate at Brighton.
Her daughter, Silver Grass was better class juvenile runner, wining the Palatine Nursery Handicap and placing second in the Acorn Stakes and the Queen Mary Stakes.
www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/GreyLeg.html   (812 words)

  
 RTÉ.ie Sport - Hughes flies home for easy Glasgow success
It turned ot to be a procession for Richard Hughes aboard Day Flight in the Glasgow Stakes, underlined by a 20 length winning margin.
The Sadler's Wells colt is not entered in the Vodafone Derby but connections of the John Gosden-trained runner must be tempted to splash out the £75,000 required to add him to the Epsom Classic judged on the manner of his 20-length demolition of Mac Regal.
If Day Flight doesn't line up at Epsom on June 5, he will go for the King Edward VII Stakes at Ascot, followed by a tilt at the Irish Derby on June 27.
www.rte.ie /sport/2004/0513/hughesr.html   (194 words)

  
 Henry VII -> Character and Influence on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Henry VII -> Character and Influence on Encyclopedia.com 2002
He established the Tudor tradition of strong rule tempered by a sense of justice.
King Edward VII Stakes: Global out to make amends.(Sports)
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 Thoroughbred Times: News Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The bay filly is among 12 three-year-old fillies in the one-mile Coronation Stakes.
Stakes winner Bustan takes two straight victories into the $197,518 King Edward VII Stakes (Eng-G2) at Royal Ascot on Friday where he will face Diaghilev, the only other stakes winner in the field of seven three-year-old colts and geldings.
He won the seven-furlong Queenston Stakes on May 4, and then was victorious in the 1 1/8-mile Plate Trial Stakes on June 1 over six of his Queen’s Plate rivals.
www.thoroughbredtimes.net /todaysnewsarchive/ttodaysnewsviewarchive.asp?ArchiveDate=06/20/2002   (6085 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Other Sport | Horse Racing | Day four: York round-up
Earlier, Plea Bargain survived a stewards' inquiry to take the spoils to the King Edward VII Stakes.
There is a moment of anxiety as Hills dismounts immediatelyafter the line but it transpires that the filly has just twisted a shoe.
Despite the small field, the Group Two race is one of the most exciting of the week with four of the five runners in a line at the two-furlong pole before hot favourite Mountain High fades.
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 GN Online: Hamdan's horses in focus at Ascot
Other rides include Rasm in the Listed Wolferton Rated Stakes, Bustan in the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes and Al Maali in the Buckingham Palace Stakes.
Only seven start in the King Edward VII Stakes but their are some interesting runners, none more than the Sheikh Hamdan-owned Bustan, who beat Godolphin's Al Moulatham at Newmarket early this month.
The two miles at Ascot will provide a stiff test of stamina for the 14 three-year-olds in the Queen's Vase in which Godolphin are represented by Mamool, second to Bandari in the Derby Trial at Lingfield last month.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=55161   (607 words)

  
 Preakness Stakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Afleet Alex was made the 5-2 favorite for the Preakness Stakes on Wednesday, while Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo was the fourth choice at 6-1 and drew the ominous No. 13 post.
Belenus is one of four Derby entries running in the Predominate Stakes on Wednesday.
North Light is set to make a reappearance in the Brigadier Gerard Stakes after being rerouted from an intended run at the Curragh.
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The tables provide definitions of basic sentencing terms in each state; powers and procedures of the courts in the sentencing process; the use of intermediate sanctions and sentencing guidelines; the consequences of a felon conviction, and provisions affecting sentence reductions.
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 RTÉ.ie Sport - French duo on course for Derby
As expected the Clive Brittain trained Bahar Shumaal, easy winner of a Sandown maiden on his sole start, has been supplemented to the race at a cost of €95,000 and the Saeed Manana owned colt will be partnered by Ted Durcan on Sunday.
Brahminy Kate, runner up to Plea Bargain in the King Edward VII Stakes at York last week, will represent the Mark Johnston stable and is likely to be partnered by Kevin Darley.
There are eight entries for the six furlong juvenile contest and the master of Ballydoyle is responsible for half of them in Amigoni, George Washington, Ivan Denisovich and the unraced Nero.
www.rte.ie /sport/2005/0621/irishderby.html   (335 words)

  
 Dee Stakes day for Gypsy King
Aidan O’Brien’s highly-regarded three-year-old Gypsy King is one of nine runners declared for tomorrow’s Group 3 Dee Stakes, sponsored by Aberdeen Murray Johnstone and Hallwells LLP.
The Group Three £65,000 Dee Stakes sponsored by Aberdeen Murray Johnstone and Halliwells, run over 10 furlongs and 75 yards, is held tomorrow Friday, May 6, the final day of Chester’s historic May Festival, and provides an ideal opportunity for unexposed colts to show their true potential.
Beneficial did not contest any of the classics but triumphed in the King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot and has gone on to be a useful jumping stallion.
www.racingbetter.co.uk /news/2005/05/chester_dee_stakes.html   (1646 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Other Sport | Horse Racing | Racewatch: Day four
Urbina's mount headed the high-drawn group on the far side who seemed to have the edge during the race and he raced on well to the line.
The dual Guineas winner Attraction ran out a comfortable winner of the day's feature race, the Coronation Stakes, in what was one of the best performances of the meeting so far.
It was a magnificent display by the Mark Johnston-trained filly, who made all the running and never looked like being caught by her rivals, as she continued her unbeaten record.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/3819043.stm   (625 words)

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