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Sea Trek (other)
Sea Trek may refer to: * Sea Trek (diving system), an underwater helmet diving system * ''Sea Trek'' (documentary), a TV documentary presented by Martha Holmes * Sea Trek, a horse which won the Rebel Stakes in 1988 * Sea Trek 2001, a 2001 project to commemorate the exodus of Mormon pioneers from Europe during the 19th century {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Trek (documentary)
Martha Holmes is a BAFTA Award-winning BBC Television producer and writer known for her wildlife documentaries. Biography Holmes studied for a PhD in marine biology at the University of York. She started work at the BBC in 1988 hosting a live underwater broadcast from the northern Red Sea for ''Reefwatch'', and the award-winning wildlife adventures series ''Sea Trek'' (which she hosted with American born documentary filmmaker the late Mike deGruy). She joined the production team for '' Life in the Freezer'' and produced ''BBC Wildlife Specials'' episode on the polar bear for which she won the Best Factual Photography award at the 1998 BAFTAs. She was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal and Award in 1999. The Good Fish Guide Holmes joined a conservationist campaign to boycott 20 varieties of fish because of the impact of over-fishing on their numbers and the environment. She wrote the introduction to "The Good Fish Guide" which accompanied the campa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebel Stakes
The Rebel Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses held over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles run on dirt each February at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas. As of 2024, it offers a purse of $1,250,000. It is the second leg of Oaklawn's three-year-old stakes program, run after the Southwest Stakes and before the Arkansas Derby; it is also part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby. History The race was first run on March 18, 1961, as the Rebel Handicap over a distance of one mile and seventy yards. It was won by Mrs. Vera E. Smith's Bass Clef in 1:42. The victory was Bass Clef's fifth in a row, a run that included the Louisiana Derby. Later in the spring, Bass Clef would finish third to Carry Back in the Kentucky Derby. The event immediately became a preparatory event for the Arkansas Derby. The 1965 winner Swift Ruler won both races. In 1984, the conditions of the event were changed from handicap to stakes allowance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |