“Horse Racing: Vitro du Bourg wins Emirates Tazza l-Kbira” plus 3 more |
- Horse Racing: Vitro du Bourg wins Emirates Tazza l-Kbira
- Horse racing returns on April 10-11
- Horse racing is back this weekend
- Tony McCoy's hopes of BBC award rest on racing changing its image | Cornelius Lysaght
| Horse Racing: Vitro du Bourg wins Emirates Tazza l-Kbira Posted: 12 Apr 2010 12:59 PM PDT
Paul Fleri Soler, Emirates Manager for Malta & Cyprus, presented the Tazza l-Kbira Cup and Emirates branded horse blanket to the horse owners Bilocca and Debono. Related Articles:
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| Horse racing returns on April 10-11 Posted: 12 Apr 2010 12:23 AM PDT Horse racing is returning to the Cochise County Fairgrounds. Fairgrounds Manager Karen Strongin announced last week enough state funding has been allocated this year allowing her to put on one weekend of horse racing.Strongin said the dates she was given were April 10-11. "We plan to have a nice variety of Thoroughbred and Quarter horse races," she said. "The track has been maintained and we're excited to be able to bring the races back to Douglas this year." The El Moro de Cumpas trials will be held in Douglas that weekend with the finals to be in Sonoita for the second straight year. The Sonoita Derby Trials will also take place in Douglas as will the John Ray Memorial. Strongin is hoping to have at least 10 races each of the two days. With the economic situation the way it is there will be no increase in the price of the admission or the cost of the programs. A St. Patrick's Day dance is scheduled for this Saturday (March 20) from 8 p.m. to midnight. Money raised will be used for the upcoming horse races. There will be door prizes and green beer. Tickets are $5. "This board is determined to continue onward with all the traditions we have here," Strongin said. "We're like everybody else … in a funding crunch." Kingman has cancelled its horse races this year and Safford is running just one weekend like Douglas. Safford will run this March 20-21, then Strongin said there will be no races the next two weekends. Douglas will have its races; there will be no racing April 17-18 with Sonoita running April 24-25 and May 1-2 which is Kentucky Derby weekend. Strongin says what happened last year was beyond her on anyone's on the boards control and they would have loved to have had the horse races but with the timing of the state budget cuts that was just not possible. "Our legislators are working really hard for us," she said. "They don't want to see this go away either. … They just had to wait and see what kind of funding was going to be available for the fourth quarter period. "We want to race, we will race but we had to wait to hear from the state as to if any funds were going to be available to help us put on these races. We weren't sure if there was going to be any funding at all." Some of the money from the state is also purse money, Strongin said. The fairgrounds manager said she met individually which each of our state representatives and explained to them how important this event is for this area and they were able to come through for her this year. "This event is very important for this area," she said. "People around here really like the races and look forward to us having them each year. … But it takes a lot of money to put this on." Some horses are already starting to work out on the track. Strongin expects most of them to arrive around April 1. Strongin says she is also looking for race sponsors and volunteers. "If anybody in the community wants to volunteer to help do something out here and they don't have a criminal background, we would love to hear from them," she said. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Horse racing is back this weekend Posted: 12 Apr 2010 12:30 AM PDT After taking a year off due to state budget cuts horse racing is returning to the Cochise County Fairgrounds this weekend The El Moro de Cumpas trials will take place this weekend with the finals to be in Sonoita in two weeks for the second straight year. The Sonoita Derby Trials will also take place this weekend as will the John Ray Memorial.This will be the only weekend of horse racing in the Douglas area. Kingman cancelled its horse races this year and Safford ran just one week instead of its usual two. Sonoita will be the next stop on the racing circuit running April 24-25 and May 1-2 which is Kentucky Derby weekend. Horses have been arriving at the local track in recent weeks and things are all set up and ready to go. Cochise County Fairgrounds manager Karen Strongin is hoping the community will come out and support the races this weekend. What happened last year was beyond anyone's control, Strongin said. "We would have loved to have had the horse races but with the timing of the state budget cuts that was just not possible," she said. "We want to race, we will race but we had to wait to hear from the state as to if any funds were going to be available to help us put on these races." Gates will open at noon each day with races starting at 1 p.m. There is an admission charge of $3 per person to the races. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Tony McCoy's hopes of BBC award rest on racing changing its image | Cornelius Lysaght Posted: 12 Apr 2010 01:59 PM PDT  Tony McCoy will need racing to play to the crowds if he is to add the BBC's top sports award to his first Grand National success. Photograph: John Walton/Empics Tony McCoy's odds are as short as 3-1 to win the BBC's most coveted sporting prize, the Sports Personality of the Year, or SPOTY as it is known within the Corporation. It is the one award to have eluded horse racing, despite the exploits of Lester Piggott and Willie Carson, Frankie Dettori and of McCoy himself, plus many others. Third place for McCoy in 2002 and Dettori (1996) are the best finishes and, despite McCoy passing the lauded landmark of 3,000 winners last year, the man who bestrides his arena as no other could not get as much as a toehold on the shortlist. Racing was aghast, taking some convincing that this was not some kind of dastardly BBC plot: in fact, the final 10 are compiled after consultation with newspaper and magazine sports editors. Although the ultimate result comes from a public vote, the chatter echoing around the long corridors of TV Centre today hardly seemed likely to start a rush for the 3-1. True, there was acknowledgment that the scenes of undiluted joy seen and heard by millions globally via our TV, radio and online services after the Grand National were among the most striking from any sporting event in years. But the thought that the success might see the soon-to-be-15-times champion jockey finally scale the SPOTY summit just as he did, at last, the greatest horse race in the world on Saturday drew a downbeat response. It was certainly nothing to do with the man himself, a jockey whose reputation as a popular ambassador for racing, as well as a brilliant practitioner of its arts, is undisputed. Indeed, his tear-jerking description of an emotional visit to Liverpool's Alder Hey children's hospital to the live audience during his now annual eve of the National appearance on 5 Live had, I heard, touched many hearts. No, it was agreed that the problem is not McCoy's at all; it is racing's and it is a big one that has to be addressed if he or anyone from the Sport of Kings is ever to sit on the SPOTY throne. The outside world – and definitely not, whatever our critics suggest, only BBC apparatchiks – is simply not turned on enough or, worse still, is actually turned off by racing. The admirable BBC radio presenter Peter Allen described it as a 'Marmite' sport, either loved or hated, and although I gently point out that his own precious golf is hardly 'milk chocolate', and adored by all, he makes a fair point. It is hard to say exactly why. A not-as-fair-as-it-used-to-be hoity-toity caricature is one thing; animal welfare concerns are another; then there is much confusion about the whole betting thing and an over-used and often unfathomable vocabulary. Those behind the Racing For Change push claim they are doing their bit to help, although it is hard to assess how successful they are being. Like all marketing folk, they are naturally bullish. What is really aggravating, however, is that too many racing insiders have little if any clue about the existence of the problem. Indeed a columnist in the trade newspaper, the Racing Post, recently went into full sneer mode that a BBC TV programme had dropped an interview with a trainer because its content was felt to be too racing oriented. The show in question, he mocked, was about the countryside, so how could this possibly be the case? When I wrote to the paper, saying how depressing that attitude was, the columnist replied, airily, there were more important things to get depressed about. Yes? Well, if the quite brilliant Tony McCoy has less of a chance of gaining SPOTY top-dog status because of the image of the sport in which he so excels, that is surely a matter to send all lovers of racing into despair. Deep despair. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
In vitro du Bourg owned by Kalċidon Bilocca and Vincent Debono, driven by Ivan Bilocca claimed the Easter horse racing trophy, Emirates Airlines "it-Tazza l-Kbira". The 14-year old horse managed to beat other nine challengers in a race consisting of a 2,640m. The young jockey Bilocca said that he is very happy to have won the prestigious cup.| You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News Search Results for horse racing To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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