Thoroughbred racing in Australia

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    A couple of years ago, Australia watched on from their tellies as ‘Four Corners’ unraveled the darkest of secrets in modern day greyhound racing. We exposed the gruesome sport for what it is, a lower class ‘Melbourne Cup’ which sends a clear and undeniable statement that the GRV (Greyhound Racing Victoria) have a lack of motivation and desire to fix the sport. The allegations that live baiting is used during training and the corruption surrounding the policing of the sport, further supports the idea

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    Horse Racing History

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    The history of horse racing The ancient sport of horse racing dates back thousands of years. The concept was created by Central Asian nomadic tribesmen who were the first to domesticate horses. Horse racing has been in organized sport around the world from the beginning of recorded history. It is known that English knights in the 12th century would race stallions and wager amongst themselves privately. During the 17 hundred horse-racing officially became a professional sport. From that point on

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    purpose of my presentation is to debate the issue of whether horse racing should be banned, in which I contend that flat racing should not be banned in Australia. Horse racing has a rich culture that comes with it and is a major part of Australian history with the first official race meeting having taken place at Hyde Park Sydney in October 1810 making horse riding almost as old as this country itself, Horse racing also benefits Australia by inputting Billions of dollars into the Australian economy and

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    Legendary thoroughbred racehorse trainer and Australian Racing Hall of Fame member, David Hayes once said, ‘Buying a horse is like buying venture capital stock. The pay-offs will be better than the incremental returns you might experience playing the stock market.’ For centuries, horse racing was a sport only played by the rich. It became extremely popular among the members of the royalty and the aristocracy that horse racing, or thoroughbred racing, was branded as the “Sport of Kings”. But that

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    Horse Racing

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    Title: Types of Horse Racing Description: Knowing the types of horse racing is instrumental for first-time bettors who want to grasp the ins and outs of the popular wagering activity. Keyword: South African football First-time bettors would think that all horse races are the same. However, horse racing is a varied sport once you see the bigger picture. It goes back hundreds of years and it has developed significantly throughout its course in time. These days, racing takes place in a multitude of

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    Horse racing Horse riding is an ancient sport that began in Central Asia about 4500 BC. Currently, horse racing is one game that is has been legalized in terms of gambling throughout the globe especially in American. The racing involves more than one horse galloped by jockeys in a race. In Australia, thoroughbred horse racing is a popular gambling sport having A$ 14.3 billion wagered in 2009-2010. Australia has two features two types of racing, level racing and over fences in Victoria and southern

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    Evolution Of Horse Racing

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    Grimwood ANS 219 Lineage and Evolution of the Thoroughbred Race Horse It has been said by an unknown source, “A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for ride at the same time.” So there is no surprise that Thoroughbreds have an interesting impact on history as their breed has evolved. The thoroughbred lineage has always inspired some form of curiosity and controversy and that still seems to be the case. The evolution of horse racing in general has its own forms of heated disputes

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    Steroid Banned

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    of kings has been tainted by drug and steroid use long since it became popular. Although there aren’t many ways to regulate what is given to the crop of 30,000 thoroughbreds born per year, there are efforts being made to keep steroids off of the track. Legal drugs and steroids vary from state to state. Among the 38 states with horse racing, 28 have no rules or regulations regarding steroid use. The remaining 10 have a partial ban that allows the use of four drugs, including the synthetic steroid Winstrol

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    another(Bridle et al., 2015). Based on the knowledge that when it comes down to horse jump racing the industry is questionable due to tumbles and deaths that happen to horses with it being shown by the media in a terrible atmosphere slightly exaggerated to the reality (Bridle et al., 2015). This peace of information claims that when the media gets involved in accidents that occurred during horse jump racing, the portrayal of the sport is shaped into a negative one causing the public to be critical

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    soon after, the AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) was formed. Then the American Quarter Horse Museum and the American Quarter Horse Congress were created, as follow-up of the breed’s increasing popularity. Excellent for pleasure, cattle and racing, this horse has it all, so it’s no wonder that everyone loves him so much. Short History of the American Quarter Horse Quarter Horse comes from the Quarter Mile races organized by the first English colonists.

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