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  2. British Classic Races - Wikipedia

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    The British Classics are five long-standing Group 1 horse races run during the traditional flat racing season. [1] They are restricted to three-year-old horses and traditionally represent the pinnacle of achievement for racehorses against their own age group. As such, victory in any classic marks a horse as amongst the very best of a generation ...

  3. Timeline of horse racing on UK television - Wikipedia

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    1984. 22 March – Horse racing coverage is broadcast on Channel 4 for the first time, resulting in the launch Channel 4 Racing. 1985. 5 October – The first weekend horse racing is shown on Channel 4 when ITV transfers coverage of horse racing to Channel 4 after the end of World of Sport. 1986.

  4. British Touring Car Championship - Wikipedia

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    The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by TOCA. It was established in 1958 as the British Saloon Car Championship and was renamed as the British Touring Car Championship for the 1987 season. [1] The championship, currently running ...

  5. British Grand Prix - Wikipedia

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    The British Grand Prix is a Grand Prix motor racing event organised in the United Kingdom by Motorsport UK. First held by the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) in 1926, the British Grand Prix has been held annually since 1948 and has been a round of the FIA Formula One World Championship every year since 1950. In 1952, following the transfer of the ...

  6. List of British flat horse races - Wikipedia

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    Try The Racing App This Afternoon Handicap: Bath: 5f: 2 75: 4yo+ Blind Beggar April: Newbury Spring Cup: Newbury: 1m: 2 70: 4yo+ Metal Merchant April: Sky Bet Acca Freeze Handicap: Musselburgh: 5f 1y: 2 75: 4yo+ Equality April: City and Suburban Handicap: Epsom: 1m 2f 17y: 2 50: 4yo+ Crystal Delight April: Great Metropolitan Handicap: Epsom: 1m ...

  7. Len Martin - Wikipedia

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    Len Martin. Leonard Martin (17 April 1919 – 21 August 1995) was an Australian results reader. He was known in the UK for reading out the football results, associated football pools statistics and horse-racing results on the BBC's Saturday afternoon sports programme, Grandstand . Martin was born in Australia where he began his broadcasting career.

  8. List of British National Hunt races - Wikipedia

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    Chase. Perth. 3m. 5yo+ m. Apple Away. ^ Run at Exeter as the Exeter Mares' Novices' Chase in 2023, due to abandonment at Bangor. ^ Run at Aintree in 2023, due to abandonment at Carlisle. ^ Run at Doncaster as the Bet365 Mares' Open NHF Race in 2023, due to abandonment at Huntingdon.

  9. World of Sport (British TV programme) - Wikipedia

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    28 September 1985. ( 1985-09-28) World of Sport is a British television sport programme which ran on ITV between 2 January 1965 and 28 September 1985 in competition with the BBC 's Grandstand. Like Grandstand, the programme ran throughout Saturday afternoon. From the programme's launch until the lifting of restrictions on broadcasting hours in ...