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  Two Thousand Guineas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Finish of the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket by Samuel Henry Alken (1810-1894)
The Two Thousand Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 1 mile (1609 meters) thoroughbred flat racing horse race for 3-year-old colts and fillies run in May of each year over the Rowley Mile at Newmarket, Suffolk, England.
First held in 1809, it is the first leg of the English Triple Crown followed by the Epsom Derby and the St.
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 The Probert Encyclopaedia - Sport (N-Z)
Shinty (camanachd) is a native stick-and-ball game of the Scottish Highlands, originally the same as Hurling the two have developed their own separate styles, but the basis remains the same, driving a ball through a goal with a stick.
The Two Thousand Guineas Stakes is the second classic horse race of the English season.
Two teams of six players each attempt to volley the ball over the net and ground it in the opposing court, and prevent the ball from touching the ground in their court.
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 Newmarket Guineas Meeting 2005
The pair were successful in the colts' equivalent with Footstepsinthesand on Saturday and the 12-1 shot flew late to capture the fillies' race in some style as she left Maids Causeway toiling back in second.
Haafhd hit the front two furlongs out and the 11-2 shot galloped on strongly to beat Snow Ridge (8-1) by a length and three-quarters, with Azamour (25-1) a further length away in third.
The 2,000 Guineas is for three-year-old colts and fillies and is run on the famous Rowley Mile course.
www.racingbetter.co.uk /races/newmarket/guineas_meeting.html   (351 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Horse Racing
When horses destined for racing careers are two years old, they begin training that includes accepting a rider’s weight and commands (see Horsemanship).
If two or more interested parties claim the same horse at the same price, lots are drawn to determine the winning offer.
Two other types of contests are match races and walkovers.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566086/Horse_Racing.html   (1336 words)

  
 St. Leger Stakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
First held in 1776, it is known as "the oldest classic turf race", having eclipsed the even older Doncaster Cup as the most important race run at the course.
Preceded by the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes and the Epsom Derby, it is the final leg of the English Triple Crown.
A sweepstake of 25 guineas was held over two miles (3 km) on Cantley Common, two miles (3 km) east of the current racecourse, on 24th September 1776.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Leger_Stakes   (466 words)

  
 thousand
The standard prefix for a thousand is "kilo-".
The Roman numeral for thousand is M (for mille).
Thousand is also the name of a single released by techno artist Moby, which has the world record for the fastest tempo in beats-per-minute (BPM) of any released single.
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 West Australian
Named Mowerina, she was a decent filly, placing second in the One Thousand Guineas, but put to the broodmare paddocks, she continued the grand producing tradition of her dam.
His son THE WIZARD won the Two Thousand Guineas, was second to Thormanby in the Derby, and third in the St. Leger.
At stud, Marco came up with Neil Gow, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, and Omar Khayyam, who was imported to the United States, where he won the Kentucky Derby and many other races and as a stallion was eight times in the top twenty leading sires and in 1925 the leading sire of juveniles.
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 Sceptre
She then began to improve and was pointed for both the One Thousand and Two Thousand Guineas, an ambitious idea indeed, since most fillies do not try colts in the latter.
When she did not immediately produce a great racehorse, or two or three, she became a bit more dispensable, at least to those impatient souls who could not wait for her daughters to prove themselves.
The hammer fell at 7,000 guineas with Messrs.
www.reines-de-course.com /sceptre.htm   (2559 words)

  
 Press Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Walker is aiming two horses at the Two Thousand Guineas, the other being Sea Saint (Orpen) who has been transferred to Walker's Rangiora stable.
Sea Saint has won two of his three starts to date and is expected to resume racing in a three-year-old 1200m event at Riccarton on September 9.
Two star performers at Te Akau Racing Stables - Maroofity and That's Tops - are back in work and going through the early stages of their preparation for the next racing season.
www.thoroughbrednet.co.nz /teakaustud/News.asp   (15404 words)

  
 Mark Johnston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is considered to be one of the most successful racehorse trainers in the UK, training 146 winners and claiming £2,454,440 in prize money in 2003.
In 2004 he won the One Thousand Guineas Stakes with Attraction.
Other successful horses he has trained are Mister Baileys, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes and Double Trigger, three time winner of the Ascot Gold Cup.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Johnston   (157 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Two Thousand Guineas Stakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Arcadia had two foals prior to Cyllene, a filly by Minting who ran unsuccessfully twice at age two and was sold, and a colt, Arcady, by Sheen, who failed to win in four races at age two, and after being sold won two selling plates at age three before disappearing from recorded racing history.
Cicero's dam was the beautifully bred Gas, a daughter of Two Thousand Guineas and Derby winner Ayrshire out of the fine producer Illuminata.
He won 11 of 31 races, and captured some prestigious events, including the Rous Memorial Stakes and Richmond Stakes at two, the Gatwick Stakes and Duke of York Stakes and Durham Produce Plate at three, and the Cambridgeshire Handicap, Duke of York Stakes, Princess of Wales Stakes, and Champion Stakes at four.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Two-Thousand-Guineas-Stakes   (319 words)

  
 Two Thousand Guineas --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Separated from the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean by the Vridi-Plage sandbar, this deepwater port was opened to the sea in 1950 by the Vridi Canal.
The islands are arranged in two parallel chains located between Papua New Guinea on the northwest and Vanuatu on the southeast.
Two 15th-century sermons reflecting on marital conditions in medieval Europe, by St. Bernardino of Siena.
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 France in the Revolution - Chapter Twelve
Two treaties were executed: one of commerce, and the other providing for mutual defence and alliance.
How remote were the two sides of the Atlantic was shown by the provision in reference to the carriage of goods belonging to citizens of a power with which either of the contracting parties might in the future be at war.
Two months were granted to ascertain the fact that such a war had begun.
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 Channel 4 Television - Racing
Eleanor became the first filly to win the Derby and the Oaks, and Smolensko was the first colt to win both the Derby and the Two Thousand Guineas.
Y'know the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby and the St Leger for colts, or the One Thousand Guineas, Oaks and St Leger for fillies.
In 1868 Formosa failed in the Derby, winning the other four (that's if you allow a dead heat in the Two Thousand Guineas, where she lost the run-off, to count as a victory).
www.channel4.com /sport/racing_c4/5classics.html   (1282 words)

  
 Channel 4 Television - Racing
Two years later, Archer had been overweight by a pound and lost in the Cambridgeshire by a head.
In his first year he won the Two Thousand Guineas on Tap On Wood and was three times champion jockey (1984, 1985 and 1987).
He successfully rode in point-to-points for two seasons and his first winner under rules was Rusty Bridge at Hereford in April 1994, this was a real family affair as Rusty Bridge was trained by his mother, Sue Johnson and owned by Richard's grandfather Ivor Johnson.
www.channel4.com /sport/racing_c4/jockeys.html   (4331 words)

  
 Thoroughbred Times: Today's News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The son of Dubai Millennium faded in the final 100 yards of the Two Thousand Guineas in his first start of the season, marking his first loss in four career starts for Godolphin Racing.
Two Thousand Guineas winner Footstepsinthesand was not entered in the Irish equivalent due to a bruised foot.
While Footstepsinthesand will be absent, the Irish Two Thousand Guineas did attract Rebel Rebel, who finished 1¼ lengths back in second in the Newmarket classic.
www.thoroughbredtimes.com /todaysnews/newsview.asp?recno=54807&subsec=3   (314 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Two Thousand Guineas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor), born 21 April 1926, is the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda...
Henry Cecil is a successful English horse racing trainer who has had many winners in the Epsom Derby, One Thousand Guineas Stakes and Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, Epsom Oaks and the St....
Frankie Detorri in the parade ring at Glorious Goodwood in August 2004 Frankie Detorri in the parade ring at Newmarket after riding in the 2000 Guineas 2005 Frankie Dettori, (born December 15, 1970 in Milan, Italy) is a thoroughbred race horse jockey and celebrity.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Two-Thousand-Guineas   (2909 words)

  
 History of Potsgrove, Upper Lower and West Providence, Plymouth and Whitemarsh, Pa.
Only two miles of this stream, however, are within this township, but in this distance it had many years ago three gristmilis on its banks.
October 25, 1701, William Penn conveyed to his son, John Penn, a tract of twelve thousand acres of land, which the latter, in June, 1735, sold to George McCall, a merchant of Philadelphia, for the sum of two thousand guineas, or in our present-day money would be worth $9,339.
Grosstown, a small village two miles west of Pottstown, on the old Philadelphia, Reading and Perkiomen turnpike, was started by a family named Gross, who lived there about one hundred and twenty-five years ago.
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 English Race Course Gazeteer: Newmarket
The original race, a sweepstakes of 100 guineas each (half forfeit) for three-year-old colts and fillies, attracted 23 subscribers, and was run on the Rowley Mile course.
The first running went to the filly Charlotte, but unlike the 2000 Guineas, the race was run on the 7 furlong - 178 yards Ditch Mile course at Newmarket; it was transferred to the Rowley Mile at Newmarket in 1873.
The two and a quarter mile contest consists of a virtually straight mile, a right hand bend, followed by a daunting mile and quarter straight on the Rowley Mile course, and together with the Cambridgeshire it forms the 'Autumn Double'.
www.tbheritage.com /TurfHallmarks/Gazeteer/GazeteerSuf.html   (947 words)

  
 2005 Two Thousand Guineas Preview
This applies particularly to Iceman, who after squeezing through the smallest of gaps was in front a stride or two past the line and was trapped on the rail at a crucial stage when he needed to make his move.
He has a big chance in the Guineas if the decision not to aim Shamardal (who is now a possible for the Irish Guineas according to Godolphin) at this race can be taken at face value.
The average Dosage index (DI) for the past ten Guineas winners is 1.4, but those slightly above this up to around DI 2.0 seem the ideal type for the race.
www.chef-de-race.com /dosage/classics/2005_2000_guineas_preview.htm   (1748 words)

  
 Two Thousand Guineas - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Two Thousand Guineas - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Two Thousand Guineas contains research on
Two Thousand Guineas, 1950-1999, 2000-, Betting and United Kingdom horse races.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Two_Thousand_Guineas_Stakes   (214 words)

  
 Bay Ronald - Part Two - By CM Frank
Her dam was by Isonomy, sire of two English Triple Crown winners (Isinglass and Common) from a female family which began with Queen Mary, one of the greatest taproot mares in England's General Stud Book.
Gay Crusader was ranked the better race horse of the two, but Gainsborough was the more important sire, producing a classic horse in Solario in his second season at stud.
Her first foal, Sickle, was the best 2-year-old of his year and winner of the Two Thousand Guineas at 3.
www.holsteiner.com /impulsion/bayron2.html   (2038 words)

  
 Horse Race Betting - Two Thousand Guineas Stakes Horse Races
Included is a discussion of pari-mutuel betting, betting options, placing a bet at the track, payoff calculations, and the track cut.
Two Thousand Guineas Stakes is a 1 mile (1600 meters) thoroughbred horse race for 3-year-olds run in May of each year over the Rowley Mile at Newmarket, Suffolk, England.
First held in 1809, it is the first leg of the English Triple Crown.
www.racehorsebook.com /twothousandguineasstakes.htm   (208 words)

  
 Newmarket Racecourses - Rowley Mile: Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In addition to the two historic racecourses, The Rowley Mile and The July Course, it is the home of the National Stud and the National Horse Racing Museum.
The Rowley Mile Course has been home to the first two of the five great "classic" Races, the One Thousand Guineas and the Two Thousand Guineas, since 1814 and 1809 respectively, and also stages many other world famous races including The Champion Stakes on "Champions" Day.
The profile of the live audience on the major race days is of particularly high calibre, including British and overseas royalty and politicians, global captains of industry, city analysts and international inventors, and celebrities from sport and show business.
www.newmarketracecourses.co.uk /racing/history.html   (192 words)

  
 One Thousand Guineas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The One Thousand Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 United Kingdom flat racing horse race for three year old fillies run over a distance of 1 mile at Newmarket Racecourse during May.
Two Thousand Guineas (dead heat), Epsom Oaks, St.
This page was last modified 10:48, 15 December 2005.
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 Newmarket Guineas Meeting 2004
Attraction made all the running to win the UltimateBet.com 1000 Guineas at Newmarket for the North.
Trained in Middleham by Mark Johnston and ridden by Kevin Darley, the 11-2 shot maintained her unbeaten record to take the fillies' Classic.
She held the late surge of Godolphin's Sundrop (16-1) by half a length, with Hathrah (6-1) another half a length away in third.
www.racingbetter.co.uk /races/newmarket/2004/guineas_meeting.html   (313 words)

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