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Eremein
Eremein (6 November 2001 – 8 March 2020) was a notable Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. He was a chestnut gelding foaled in 2001 and bred by Bhima Stud in New South Wales. Eremein was by Timber Country (USA) from Marrego (won $78,520) by Marscay. ASB – Eremein Retrieved on 2009-6-19 His best wins were the Rosehill Guineas and the Australian Derby in 2005, and the Ranvet Stakes, BMW
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Timber Country
Timber Country (foaled April 12, 1992 in Kentucky - February 24, 2016) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse who was the first horse to ever win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States), American Triple Crown Classic Race when he won the 1995 Preakness Stakes. Background Timber Country, a bay horse with three white socks and a small nose snip, was born April 12, 1992, in Kentucky. A son of Irish champion Woodman (horse), Woodman, he was out of the mare Fall Aspen, a daughter of Pretense. Fall Aspen, who won the 1978 Matron Stakes (Belmont Park), Matron Stakes, was also the dam of Grade I winner and champion Bianconi, Grade I winner Northern Aspen, and Grade II winners Elle Seule and Colorado Dancer. Timber Country grew to be a large horse, standing 17 hands high at maturity. Timber Country is closely related to the Dubai World Cup winner, Dubai Millennium, a son of Mr. Prospector and Timber Country's half-sister, Colorad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Coast Guineas
The Gold Coast Guineas is a Gold Coast Turf Club Group 3 Australian Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds, under set weights conditions, over a distance of 1200 metres at Gold Coast Racecourse, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. Total prize money for the race is A$200,000. History The inaugural running of the race was in March 2000 over a distance of 1400 metres. The race is now part of the Prime Minister's Cup racecard in May. Distance *2000–2005 – 1400 metres *2006 onwards - 1200 metres Venue * 2023 & 2024 - Sunshine Coast Racecourse Grade *2006–2007 - Listed race *2008 onwards - Group 3 Winners * 2025 - Bosustow * 2024 - Corniche * 2023 - Yellow Brick * 2022 - Prince Of Boom * 2021 - Marboosha * 2020 - Hightail * 2019 - Pennino * 2018 - Champagne Cuddles * 2017 - Savanna Amour * 2016 - Takedown * 2015 - Nostradamus * 2014 - Dothraki * 2013 - Academus * 2012 - Florentina * 2011 - Military Rose * 2010 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Stakes (ATC)
The Festival Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred quality handicap horse race, for horses aged three years old and older, over a distance of 1500 metres, held annually at Rosehill Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in early December. Total prize money for the race is A$250,000. History Name * 1948–2001 - Festival Handicap * 2002 onwards - Festival Stakes Grade * 1948–1978 - Principal race * 1979–2015 - Listed race * 2016 - Group 3 Distance * 1948–1972 - 7 furlongs (~1400 metres) * 1973–1983 - 1400 metres * 1984 - 1350 metres * 1985–1990 – 1300 metres * 1991 - 1280 metres * 1992–2001 - 1300 metres * 2002–2006 - 1400 metres * 2008 onwards - 1500 metres Venue * 1948–1983 - Rosehill Racecourse * 1984 - Canterbury Park Racecourse * 1985–1990 - Rosehill Racecourse * 1991 - Canterbury Park Racecourse * 1992 onwards - Rosehill Racecourse Winners * 2024 - Private Eye * 2023 - Phearson * 2022 - Dajraan * 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelmsford Stakes
The Chelmsford Stakes is a Tattersalls Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race run over 1600 metres at Weight for Age at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia, in September. Prize money is A$250,000. History The race was first run in 1895. Grade * 1895–1979 - Principal Race * 1980 onwards - Group 2 Venue * 1983 - Warwick Farm * 1984–1999 - Randwick * 2000 - Rosehill * 2001–2003 - Randwick * 2004 - Warwick Farm * 2005–2010 - Randwick * 2011–2012 - Warwick Farm * 2013 onwards - Randwick Distance * 1895–1971 - 9 furlongs (~1800 metres) * 1972–1982 – 1800 metres * 1983 – 1600 metres * 1984 – 1800 metres * 1985–1999 – 1600 metres * 2000 – 1500 metres * 2001 – 1400 metres * 2002–2005 – 1600 metres * 2006 – 1550 metres * 2008 onwards - 1600 metres 1926 and 1945 racebooks File:1926 Randwick Tattersalls Club Racebook P1.jpg, 1926 Tatts Chelmsford Stakes racebook front cover File:1926 Randwick Tatts Chel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The BMW Stakes
H E Tancred Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race for horses three years old and older, run over 2,400 metres at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Sydney, Australia. The prize money for the event is A$1,500,000. History The race is named after Henry Eugene Tancred (1897–1961), a former chairman of the Sydney Turf Club. Name This race has had several names in its existence: * 1963–1976 - H E Tancred Cup * 1977–1980 - H E Tancred Stakes * 1980 - Breville Tancred Stakes * 1981–1986 - Bowater-Scott Tancred Stakes * 1987 - Bowater Tancred Stakes * 1988–1989 - Tancred International Stakes * 1990 - The BMW International * 1991–1995 - The BMW * 1996–2001 - Mercedes Classic * 2002–2017 - The BMW * 2018 onwards - KIA Tancred Stakes Distance * 1963 - miles (~2400 metres) * 1964 - miles (~2000 metres) * 1965–1972 - miles (~2400 metres) * 1973 onwards - 2400 metres Conditions * 1963– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranvet Stakes
The Ranvet Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds and older over a distance of 2,000 metres, held at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in March. Total prize money is A$1,000,000. History The original name of the race was named after Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson, who was Governor of New South Wales from 27 May 1902 to 27 May 1909. Since 1991 the event has been named after the sponsor Ranvet, a supplier of equine nutrition, supplements and veterinary medications. Name * 1903–1987 - Rawson Stakes * 1988–1990 - Segenhoe Stakes * 1991 onwards - Ranvet Stakes Distance * 1903–1954 - miles (~1800 metres) * 1955 - miles (~2000 metres) * 1956–1962 - miles (~1800 metres) * 1963–1972 - furlongs (~1500 metres) * 1973–1978 – 1750 metres * 1979–2007 – 2000 metres * 2008 – 1900 metres (held at Canterbury) * 2009–2016 – 2000 metres Grade * 1903–1979 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes
The Queen Elizabeth Stakes, formerly known as the Queen's Plate, AJC Plate, and AJC King's Cup, is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Weight for Age thoroughbred horse race run over a distance of 2,000 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia, in the autumn during the ATC Championships series. Prize money in 2013 was A$500,000 and was increased to A$4,000,000 in 2014 to become the richest race of the Sydney Autumn Carnival and as of 2020 the third richest WFA race in Australia (after the W. S. Cox Plate and the Everest). History The origins of this race are firmly associated with colonial Sydney and the growth of thoroughbred racing in the colony during the 1840s and 1850s. The Australian Jockey Club initiated an autumn race meet which coincided with the Easter holiday period and created several races which exist even today. One of these races was the Queen's Plate in honour of Queen Victoria which was first run in 1851 over a distance of about 3 miles. Throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Derby
The Australian Derby is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds at set weights held at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in April, during the Autumn ATC Championships Carnival. The race is considered to be the top ranked event for three-year-olds in Australian and New Zealand race classifications. History Name Inaugurated in 1861 as the AJC Randwick Derby Stakes, the first race was won by Kyogle, a grandson of the Touchstone who was a four-time Champion sire in Great Britain & Ireland. In 1865 the name of the race was changed to the AJC Australia Derby Stakes then from 1873 through 1993 it was called the AJC Derby. Although the race officially became the AJC Australian Derby in 1994, it is still commonly referred to as the AJC Derby. The official records show that Prince Humphrey won the 1928 Derby, but he wasn't in the race. It was a horse called Cragsman, by the same sire but with a different dam. This substitution came to light ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosehill Guineas
The Rosehill Guineas is an Australian Turf Club Group One Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds at set weights run over a distance of 2000 metres at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Sydney, Australia annually in March. Total prize money for the race is A$750,000. History Many champions have been victorious in this race, including Phar Lap, Ajax, Tulloch, Dulcify, Kingston Town, Octagonal, Naturalism and Tie The Knot. 1921 racebook File:1921 RRC Hill Stakes Racebook P1.jpg, 1921 RRC Rosehill Guineas racebook front cover File:1921 RRC Hill Stakes Racebook P2.jpg, 1921 RRC Rosehill Guineas showing officials and race day train timetable File:1921 RRC Rosehill Guineas Racebook P3.jpg, 1921 RRC Rosehill Guineas starters and results File:1921 RRC Rosehill Guineas Racebook P4.jpg, 1921 RRC Rosehill Guineas showing the winner, Furious Distance * 1910–1914 held - 7 furlongs (~1400 metres) * 1915–1947 held - miles (~1800 metres) * 1948–1972 held - miles (~2000 metre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chestnut (coat)
Chestnut is a hair coat color of horses consisting of a reddish-to-brown coat with a mane and tail the same or lighter in color than the coat. Chestnut is characterized by the absolute absence of true black hairs. It is one of the most common horse coat colors, seen in almost every breed of horse. Chestnut is a very common coat color but the wide range of shades can cause confusion. The lightest chestnuts may be mistaken for palominos, while the darkest shades can be so dark they appear black. Chestnuts have dark brown eyes and black skin, and typically are some shade of red or reddish brown. The mane, tail, and legs may be lighter or darker than the body coat, but unlike the bay they are never truly black. Like any other color of horse, chestnuts may have pink skin with white hair where there are white markings, and if such white markings include one or both eyes, the eyes may be blue. Chestnut foals may be born with pinkish skin, which darkens shortly afterwards. Chest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodman (horse)
Woodman (1983–2007) was an United States, American-bred Thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse who raced in Ireland but who is best known as a sire of a number of important racehorses. A descendant of the great sire Nearco through both his dam, Playmate, and his Leading sire in North America, Champion sire, Mr. Prospector, Woodman was a Champion 2-year-old colt in Ireland but was retired to stud (animal), stud duty after five races. Returned to the United States, he stood at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Kentucky. Among his offspring, Woodman sired: * Hansel (horse), Hansel - winner of the 1991 Preakness Stakes, Preakness and Belmont Stakes and American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse * Timber Country - the 1994 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and Preakness Stakes winner * Bosra Sham - 1996 Cartier Racing Award, European Champion 3-Year-Old Filly whose Group One wins include the British Classic Races, British Classic, the 1,000 Guineas Stakes, 1,000 Guineas, and the Champion Stakes * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
