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By Ana

Povaliceanu

Modern Horseracing in Great Britain

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Table of contents 

Chapter 1:History 

Chapter 2: Types of horse races 

Chapter 3: Horseracing and its economic impact 

Chapter 4: Horses in Arts Chapter 5: Horses in Literature 

Chapter 6: Equestrian leisure activities 

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1.History

-First contests in Babylonia, Syria and Egypt ~ 564 B.C

-Arabian horse pure breed by the 12th century

-King Henry I of England, royal families ”royal horses” 

-1174 Smithfield, London-English, American throughbreads have the blood of one or 

more Oriental stallions: Byely Turk, Darly Arabian,

Goldphin Barb

- royal family takes an interest in horseracing

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Throughbreads 

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 2.Types of horse races 

-four main types: flat racing, harness racing, steeplechasing

and hurdle racing

1. Flat racing : - conditions races (additional weight

depending on age, sex, its ability)

-handicap races most common, important for gamblers

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Condition race Handicap race

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2. Harness racing- pacing, trotting, require strategy and

speed

3. Steeplechasing (National Hunt racing) - distance horserace with diverse fence and ditch obstacles

-most famous the Grand National run annually at Aintree

Racecourse in Liverpool

4. Hurdle races- fences used as obstacles

-renowned race courts: Aintree, Carslie, Celtenham

-age restrictions

-price tickets: £ 30.00- £ 88.00

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Harness racing Steeplechasing 

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 Hurdle races 

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3. Horseracing and its economic impact  

-offered jobs such as: rural, agricultural activities, breeders, broadcasting, gambling

-second sport in Britain

-it contributes to taxes

-offers 18,600 full time jobs

-leisure activity

-rural impact upon the economy & infrastructure of 

regions

 Agriculture: secure income to many people, large

numbers of trainers 2.200 farms

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- 569 licensed trainers in Britain in 2005 (Newmarket,Lambourn)

 Broadcast : way of promoting this sport

~ 40.000- 50.000 people watch live British & Irishracing

-betting diverse, competitive-52,000 full time jobs

-racing and betting industries have a close relationship

-provides racing ` s largest source of tax payed to

Government“Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.”  

Richard Sasuly  

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4. Horses in Arts

-horses inspired drawings, carvings, sculpture.

-early examples in south of France

-Persian, Chinese civilizations left some art relics

-Egyptian pyramids scenes of hunting and warfare-horses appeared on coins, woven patterns, pictures i.e.

Bayeus Tapestry

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The Unicorn of Scotland The White Horse of Hanover 

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5. Horses in Literature

- often brought into stories and poems

-centaurs Chiron( thought Hercules)

- Iliad, account of war between the Greeks and the

Trojans

-also found in Susannah of the Mounties by M. Denison,

 Mounted Police Patrol  by R. H. Brown

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- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877) horse tells its life

story

-good picture of kinds of work to which horses were put-first outcry was made in it

-developed in Britain, the other nations took it

- books contributed to the development of 

modern horseracing 

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6.Equestrian leisure activities-

 NES: number of horses kept by private owners and in professional establishments is 1. 35 million ( 1.2 % of UK 

 population)

- ~ 2.1 mil. people ride at least once a month

- 2.2 last year - BETA preview that the Olympic games would raise the

 profile of horse sports and generate more interest in riding

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- from 1999 number of riders who school their horses has

almost doubled

- competition riding affiliated and unaffiliated

- riding became active all year round

- England offers equestrian leisure activities to everyone: -

day at the races-trail riding on well mannered horses, trip

wilder National Park to see Exmoor ponies

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- key place in British sports

- top four, five in terms of media coverage

- 60 racecourses in Great Britain

- annual racecourse attendances exceeds 6 mil.

- slowly regains its status of the sport of kings- highly visited for the thoroughbreds ridings

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