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Two South Florida horse race venues, the Calder Race Course and the Gulfstream Park, have escalated their dispute in a last-minute negotiating session between their executives. Calder announced this week that it would no longer allow horses stabled at Calder to return if they raced at Gulfstream, which is about 8 miles away.

This is due to a move by Gulfstream to change it's racing dates to overlap with Calder racing dates in December. For years the two venues had respected each other's dates and peacefully coexisted. After the move by Gulfstream to change dates, Calder resonded with an application for year-round racing dates, and the Gulfstream did the same. Each side has until Monday to finalize their applications with the state, which will automatically approve the year-round race dates.

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Sizing Europe, a Cheltenham Festival failure, in a surprising twist crushed the last two winners of the sportingbet.com Queen Mother Champion Chase. This is a great day for the Irish as they swept to victory in six horse races on the seven-heat card.
In 2008, trainer Henry de Bromhead came to Gloucestershire with dreams of winning in the horse racing Champion Hurdle with Sizing Europe, but his favorite came in last in the horse racing event. A year ago, Sizing Europe beat the reigning champion Big Zeb with a five length defeat and won the Arkle Trophy, thus completing his ascent of the two mile horse racing division.
Sizing Europe may not even have had a chance at his race, since his trainer had been keen on trying the horse over long distances and started him off at Down Royal in November.

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Horse racing is a sport that has been practised for a long long time. It is a sport which is widely associated with gambling. Horse racing is a typical sport, which is widely watched and followed by almost all the nations of the world. The world wide market on gambling associate with horse racing has accounted for about 115 billion US dollars. Generally there are three types of horse racing followed all over the world.

They are:
1)steeplechasing
2)harness racing and
3)flat racing.

Chariot racing was very popular among the ancient Romans and Greeks. The chariot racing proved to bee very dangerous for the drivers ad also for the horses.

Also, it was the major sport event in the ancient Olympic games. The training to these race horses were given, depending on the race length. The performance of the horse would vary widely on the basis of age, genetics, training given and the skeletal soundness.