#turf racing

[culturevulturette]

High Chaparral, co-winner (with Johar) of the only dead heat in Breeder's Cup history...

[postcard-from-the-past]

Horse race on the Agua Caliente Turf Club, Tijuana, Mexico

Mexican vintage postcard, mailed in 1951 to Cambridge Springs, US

[horseracingweekly]

“Newly minted Grade 1 winner ISCREAMUSCREAM remains undefeated after her 1-1/2 length victory over the field in the Del Mar Oaks with jockey Hector Berrios in the irons.”

📸 @/richsteele_sports on instagram

[hornedthornz]

Hopefully the inkfish kids won't interpret team past winning as starting another race war :/

[davidnajewiczphotography]

One more from Churchill... with actual horses and not the interesting track characters....a turf race

[porterdavis]

In my 60+ years of watching horse races I've never seen anything quite as unusual as today's 6th race at Turf Paradise. Three year old fillies are generally a sensible, almost dainty lot and don't take kindly to rough housing and bullying. Click on full-screen to enlarge the picture then watch the #1 in red leaving the gate, fast-forward to 2:45 to watch the head-on replay.

The fact she didn't fall down is remarkable; the fact she kept racing is a miracle; and winning after spotting the field 17 lengths was unbelievable. Brave filly. Even most colts would have spit out the bit at that point.

[noritama0301]

中京競馬場

最終レースは暗いし雨降るしで手振れ補正ありでもはべりいますがり

[f1]

Williams to race with a modified livery on home turf in Silverstone

Williams to race with a modified livery on home turf in Silverstone By Balazs Szabo on 05 Jul 2023, 17:55 Ahead of the British Grand Prix, Williams Racing have unveiled an adapted livery for their home race as part of the celebrations to mark their 800th Formula One Grand Prix. The British Grand Prix was set to be the Grove-based team’s eighth centennial but, with the cancellation of Imola last month, that landmark shifts to the following race in Budapest. Williams Racing is celebrating over both weekends, to ensure its home fans in the UK can be part of the commemoration. The one-off Silverstone design, running on both FW45’s of Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant this weekend, pays homage to the team's British heritage and to its beloved founder, the late Sir Frank Williams. Since its foundation in 1977 by late Sir Frank Williams and engineering pioneer Sir Patrick Head, the team has won nine Constructors’ Championships, in association with Cosworth, Honda and Renault. The British outfit is the second most successful outfit only behind Ferrari, with its seven Drivers’ Championship trophies being lifted by true icons of the sport: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. The team’s 2023 F1 challenger, the FW45 will showcase a bespoke livery exclusively designed for its home race at Silverstone, and will sport a special emblem in Budapest. Furthermore, Williams Racing is set to bring a true legend of the past, the 1992 championship winning FW14B, to Silverstone. F1 World Champion and Williams Racing Brand Ambassador Jenson Button is set to take the wheel to complete several demonstrations laps in the iconic car on Sunday. via F1Technical.net . Motorsport news https://www.f1technical.net/news/

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

#like it's not a socialist tract by far but it is clearly a bit of a problem to wodehouse that all of his peers are hedonistic morons#the only sane person in the entire novel series is the servant#like. Hewwo

Imagine calling me illiterate while using the phrase "only sane person" to refer to a character who came up with the idea of getting a feuding couple back together by training a random child to say "kiss Freddie" because he just saw a movie where a couple were persuaded by the pleading of their OWN child to get back together lmao

And I'm not saying there's no social commentary in these books! For example, Jeeves (who wholeheartedly believes in the class system and this is an integral part of his character) has a short speech in Ring for Jeeves railing against post-WWII "socialistic legislation" that's been impoverishing much of the hereditary aristocracy. Kristen Thompson cites this in her book Wooster Proposes, Jeeves Disposes as representing Wodehouse's views, but I actually think the commentary on class in RfJ is more complex than that! However, this post was an off-the-cuff joke that I didn't expect to gain traction, so I unfortunately neglected to address every nuance in Wodehouse's work!

I've been trying to resist the urge to correct every person who wants to come onto this post to tell me "um actually, it's biting social commentary when the aristocratic characters who are largely presented as good-natured and mostly harmless are endearingly silly," but if you're going to be fucking rude about it

“liking something in fiction doesn’t mean you condone it in real life” but instead of dark fanfiction tropes it’s about liking jeeves and wooster while being a socialist

[eponiesracing]

turf paradise race track picks

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[jeronimoloco]

Parting Glances: Singapore Turf Club at Kranji

After 182 years, horse racing in Singapore has like many things of the old and familiar world, passed into history with the last race at the Singapore Turf Club held at 5.40 pm on Saturday 5 October, 2024. Singapore’s need to intensify land use does mean that the closing of the chapter was going to be a matter of time. While substantial revenue is derived from the horse racing, the 120 hectares…

[culturevulturette]

One of my favorite races ever. Get a good look at this jockey's silks. He's riding Bobby's Kitten, who is last early on. Don't take your eyes off of him. What happens is insane.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1937 Douglas Stuart ad by totallymystified

[horseracingweekly]

Grade 3 winner ZULU KINGDOM (IRE) goes in search of another graded stakes victory and an all-expenses paid trip to the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf this fall at Del Mar when he goes to post in Saturday's Grade 2 Pilgrim Stakes at Aqueduct.

📸 Gary Johnson

[tenth-sentence]

"I have been on the turf for twenty years, and never was asked such a question as that before," said he.

"The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[hungrytravellers]

Biding Our Time

“Wasting my time, resting my mind And I’ll never pine For the sad days and the bad days When we was working from nine to five” Lyrics from “Biding My Time” by Pink Floyd We’re in a bit of what you might call a hiatus. It’s been a strange year, one way and another, with the whole of January at home to deal with a property matter, then our Brazil trip interrupted by the sad news of Michaela’s…