Horseracing
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How to watch the 2019 Cheltenham Festival
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The festival marks the start of ITV’s annual racing calendar which also includes the Grand National, the Epsom Derby, Royal Ascot, the Qatar Goodwood Festival and the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival.
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Sky Sports Racing to become exclusive UK and Irish home of the Kentucky Derby
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The channel, the successor to At The Races, has also extended its current multi-year agreement for network coverage of the other two legs of the fabled US Triple Crown series, the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes.
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Sky Sports Racing grabs rights to Ascot
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Other rights held by the channel include Boodles Chester May Festival, William Hill St Leger, Coral Welsh Grand National as well as the Breeders’ Cup, US Triple Crown, Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and the Melbourne Cup Carnival.
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Sky Sports to launch new racing channel
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Sky has confirmed it’s to replace At The Races with a new Sky Sports Racing which will be available to “every Sky TV customer in the UK and Ireland at no extra cost”. Also available in HD, the new channel will bring live racing from over 650 UK fixtures, “as well as high quality exclusive…
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Emojis we need for Ladies Day at the Grand National
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The history of why the last day of the event is called Ladies Day is believed to date back to Queen Anne who found the races at Ascot on a similar principal. According to the Ascot website “Whilst out riding near Windsor Castle she came upon an area of open heath that looked, in her…
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Horse Racing History
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Horse racing is an entertaining and thrilling sport with millions of fans across the globe. The sport which involves 2 or more horses ridden by jockeys over a set distance for competition is popular in many places. A lot of spectators will turn up for a racing event at any given time.