As most people know‚ horse racing is a contest of speed between two or more horses. Usually thoroughbred. To most people it would seem that horse-racing was the purest sport imaginable. With tracks monitored by overlapping cameras and gates controlled by computers‚ it seems like the honest man’s game. Horse-racing is a 15 billion dollar a year industry and the 2nd most widely attended spectator sport after baseball. It started around 4500 bc in central Asia and for thousands of years was the sport
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Year 2 – Timetable – Adult Branch Programme Care: Applied Problem Solving – co-ordinator – Jacqui White jacqueline.white@uws.ac.uk 0141 849 4312 Health & Life Science – co-ordinator – Mike Keenan mike.keenan@uws.ac.uk 0141 849 4 Process of nursing – co-ordinator – Barbara Killoran Barbara.killoran@uws.ac.uk 0141 849 4282 Year 2 Timetable Trimester 1 - Week 1
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The word race comes from a Norse word.[1] This Norse word arrived in France during the invading of Normandy and gave the word raz which means "swift water" in Brittany‚ as in a mill race; it can be found in "Pointe du Raz" (the most western point of France‚ in Brittany)‚ and "raz-de-marée" (tsunami). The word race to mean a "contest of speed" was first recorded in the 1510s.[2] A race and its name are often associated with the place of origin‚ the means of transport and the distance of the race
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Racing Greyhound Greyhound racing is one of the popular action sports‚ the sport of racing greyhounds. It started in 1974 in Western Australia‚ controlled by the Canning Greyhound Racing Association. In 1981‚ the Western Australian Greyhound Racing Authority‚ a government appointed committee‚ took over the control of the sport (Racing and Wagering Western Australia‚ 2002). In the race‚ dogs chase after an artificial hare on the track which leads them to the finish line‚ the first to arrive is the
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Art Of Racing Denny Swift is a very intellectual human being‚ especially when it is go time on the asphalt racing strip. He puts his mind into race mode and lets the auto pilot take over and slide through all the corners‚ especially in the rainy weather that dissipates others. This complex character is a rare human being‚ not for the reason of being a good racer in the rain. But he takes responsibility‚ when something happens from a decision whether he’s wrong or right he owns up to it. Either
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Barrel racing is a timed event in rodeos where a rider and horse try to complete a clover leaf pattern in the fastest time. It takes skills from the rider and the horse to make a good run. It takes good athletic ability from the horse and good horsemanship from the rider to take a horse safely through the barrels. The judges set up the barrels in a triangle in the center of the arena. There is normally a flagger in the ring that waves a flag when you start and waves it again when you cross the finish
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Carter Racing Case Study In this case‚ Carter Racing has to make a decision about whether or not to participate in a race with the knowledge that they have been experiencing a 29% engine failure rate. Carter Racing is a relatively new team‚ so they have not yet established a firm reputation. The mechanic thinks that temperature is the cause of failure‚ but that theory has been questioned by another of the racing team’s engineering staff. If they race and win‚ they could receive a $1‚000‚000 sponsorship
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Carter Racing is in a difficult situation with respect to determining whether to enter an upcoming race at Pocono. On the one hand‚ in the event of a favorable performance Carter Racing stands to gain a $1 million sponsorship with Goodstone Tires that could finance Carter Racing to add another car next season. On the other hand‚ in the event of a poor performance Carter Racing risks losing an existing oil sponsorship worth $500‚000 that is critical to next year’s race season. After careful analysis
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Formula racing is a term that refers to various forms of open wheeled single seater motorsport. Its origin lies in the nomenclature that was adopted by theFIA for all of its post-World War II single seater regulations‚ or formulae. The best known of these formulæ are Formula One‚ Formula Two‚ and Formula Three. Common usage of "formula racing" encompasses other single seater series‚ including the GP2 Series‚ which replaced Formula 3000 (which had itself been the effective replacement for Formula
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Travel writers celebrate differences between cultures. How does Emma Levine do this in the extract you have studied? In A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat Emma Levine manages to celebrate the differences between the two completely different cultures by making herself sound humble and modest. Levine also tries to give a fair‚ objective‚ unbiased view on everything she encounters on her trip. She is also extremely aware of her surroundings and therefore is also aware of the unusual culture clash
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