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flat race

n.
A horserace run over level ground with no obstacles such as fences or hazards.
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The five-year-old, who impressed when winning the Betdaq Free Trading Tools Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race at Kempton on Saturday, looks set to miss the Weatherbys Champion Bumper at Prestbury Park and head to Aintree on April 13 instead.
FAMOUS FIVE facts about the best Flat race in the world No grey horse has won the Derby since Airborne in 1946 1 2 The race would have been called the 'Bunbury' had the Earl of Derby not won a coin toss 3 More than twice as many Derby winners have had names beginning with 'S' than with any other letter 4 Workforce holds the record for the fastest winning time of 2minutes, 31.33 seconds in 2010 The 1895 Derby was the first horserace in the world to be 5 OUTSIDERS win races every day in the sport of kings.
WEATHERBYS FLAT RACE BACARDYS ended a "character-building" day for Willie Mullins on a high when leading home stablemate Battleford in the Weatherbys Private Bank Champion Standard Open NH Flat Race.
WARWICK Racecourse stages its first flat race meeting of the season on Easter Monday, with six superb races on the card - the first scheduled for 2.20pm And there will be family fun by the bucket load for the April Fool's Day race meeting, including a circus in the course enclosure.
Hinterland should take all the beating in the Horse Racing Free Bets At bookmakers.co.uk ''Jumpers' Bumper'' National Hunt Flat Race (4.50) after some excellent performances so far this season.
THURSDAY 5.15 Ladies Cancer Research Stakes (Flat race) 1mile 5furlongs THIS ladies-only charity flat race will raise money for Cancer Research UK.
His teenage stepson's overriding ambition to become a professional flat race jockey was given a public tribute yesterday.
MORE evening meetings than before and the richest Flat race in Wales are the highlights of Chepstow Racecourse's spring and summer racing season, which gets under way on Bank Holiday Monday And with a new programme devised featuring eight of the 12 fixtures on official holidays, evenings or a Saturday, the racecourse is making it more convenient for people to go racing.
Saturday June 5 sees the 220th running of the world's greatest flat race: the Vodafone Derby at Epsom.
The former Barry and Charlie Hillstrained Ransom Note could finish only third in the Billeshurst Wood "Jumpers' Bumper" National Hunt Flat Race behind Mick Channon's Foster's Road (16-1) who wore down Shernando and Tony McCoy close home.
He could run a big race in the National Hunt flat race at Aintree on Grand National day and will be a popular with many on Merseyside.