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    (1998–present) Category:British Classic Race winners English Triple Crown race winners French Classic Races Japanese Classic Races Irish Classic Races United States...
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    The classic cycle races are the most prestigious one-day professional road cycling races in the international calendar. Some of these events date back...
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  • taking the British Classic Races as a model. In the original scheme, one race, the Poule d'Essai, served as the equivalent to the first two British classics...
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  • constitute classic status. Classic style is a technique in cross-country skiing Many sporting events take the name classic: Horse races, e.g. British Classic Races...
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  • 1995; Victoria Cup, from 1970 to 1975) triple crown title female horse in Japan. British Classic Races American Classic Races French Classic Races v t e...
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  • are five Group One horse races run at The Curragh racecourse during the flat racing season. They mirror the British Classic Races, the original five "classics"...
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    Derby (horse race) (category Horse races in Great Britain)
    is restricted to five-year-olds. Other American Classic Races British Classic Races French Classic Races Thoroughbred horse racing Triple Crown of Thoroughbred...
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    Stakes. American thoroughbred racing top attended events British Classic Races French Classic Races Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing Grand Slam of Thoroughbred...
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    Classic Races – the 1,000 Guineas and 2,000 Guineas, and numerous other Group races. In total, it hosts 9 of British racing's 36 annual Group 1 races...
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    Eclipse (horse) (category Racehorses trained in the Kingdom of Great Britain)
    18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse who won 18 races, including 11 King's Plates. He raced before the introduction of the British Classic Races, at a...
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    William Buick (category British jockeys)
    races in England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. He has won five British Classic Races:...
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  • Richard Hills (jockey) (category Use British English from July 2012)
    (born 22 January 1963) is a retired flat racing jockey, who won six British Classic Races in a 33 year career. Richard James Hills was born in Newmarket,...
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  • Brussels Cycling Classic (known until June 2013 as Paris–Brussels) is a semi classic European bicycle race, one of the oldest races on the international...
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    Frankie Dettori (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
    including 23 winners of the British Classic Races. His most celebrated achievement was riding all seven winners on British Festival of Racing Day at Ascot...
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    Ascot Racecourse (redirect from Ascot Races)
    thoroughbred horse racing, and it hosts 13 of Britain's 36 annual Flat Group 1 horse races and three Grade 1 Jumps races. Ascot Racecourse is visited by approximately...
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    including the weight-for-age scale. Britain is also home to racecourses including Newmarket, Ascot and Cheltenham and races including The Derby at Epsom, The...
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  • Frank Hardy (jockey) (category Use British English from October 2023)
    Leger on the celebrated Sceptre, the only horse to win four British Classic Races outright. He was the joint Champion Apprentice of 1902. Frank William...
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    Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (category Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire)
    In the UK, Mohammed's horses have won Group One races including several of the British Classic Races. His horses have also won the Irish Derby Stakes...
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    Joel family (category Jewish-British families)
    thoroughbred horse racing as owner/breeders of numerous winners of British Classic Races. Jack Barnato Joel (1862–1940), mining magnate, Chairman of Johannesburg...
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  • Willie Carson (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    Champion Jockey five times (1972, 1973, 1978, 1980 and 1983), won 17 British Classic Races, and passed 100 winners in a season 23 times for a total of 3,828...
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  • National Hunt racing (category Horse racing in Great Britain)
    two major distinct branches, hurdling and steeplechase, as well as flat races called "bumpers". Hurdling involved the horses jumping over obstacles called...
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    Aintree Racecourse (category Use British English from June 2013)
    covered with spruce, unlike at any other course in British National Hunt racing. Four other races take place over the National fences. These are the Topham...
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    Horserace Betting Levy Board (category Horse racing organisations in Great Britain)
    Great Britain Venues Named races List of British flat horse races (British Classic Races) List of British National Hunt races Regulation British Horseracing...
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  • thirteen times Italian champion jockey. He also had success in British Classic Races, winning the 2,000 Guineas in 1975 on the Henry Cecil trained Bolkonski...
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    Doncaster Racecourse (category Use British English from February 2020)
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It hosts two of Great Britain's 36 annual Group 1 flat races, the St Leger Stakes and the Racing Post Trophy. Doncaster...
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  • Hunt horse races which take place annually in Great Britain, under the authority of the British Horseracing Authority, including all races which currently...
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    Tattersalls (category Horse racing organisations in Great Britain)
    Great Britain Venues Named races List of British flat horse races (British Classic Races) List of British National Hunt races Regulation British Horseracing...
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  • horse races which take place annually in Great Britain, under the authority of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA), including all conditions races which...
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  • notable Thoroughbred horse races in various countries around the world. In countries with a grading system, the included races are normally Group or Grade...
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    year racing began, although some sources give a date of 1512 for the first races in Chester. It is also thought to be the smallest racecourse of significance...
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