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...Derby thoroughbreds, election results and more....
...By the time you read this it will have been a full week since Rich Strike came from nowhere to win the Kentucky Derby, an 80-to-1 odds long shot whose final turn and straightaway run is a masterclass in...
...If you are in Washington on Saturday, you can hear FT reporters interviewing Henry Kissinger, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and others at our inaugural US FTWeekend Festival at the Kennedy Center....
...“Its more like the Kentucky Derby.” The lack of clarity over succession at two of the biggest banks in the world is not a good look....
...Hopkinsville, Kentucky, has marketed itself “eclipseville”. Businesses in smaller towns such as Eugene, Oregon, are churning out eclipse-themed T-shirts and doughnuts....
...Hopkinsville, Kentucky branded itself “Eclipseville” and expects an influx of 100,000 people. It has planned a three-day festival around a celestial event that lasts less than three hours....
...A horse gets a bath after a morning workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby is scheduled for Saturday...
...“It is beautiful when the horses themselves appear, in their ignorance and their majesty,” he writes of the 2002 Kentucky Derby. “And the jockeys!...
...Channel 4 has signed a four-year deal with racing bodies led by Racecourse Media Group that gives it the broadcast rights to the showpiece Aintree meeting, the Derby festival, Royal Ascot and British Champions...
...The cost of living is inevitably lower than in south-east England, which may be one reason why artists from far and wide are moving to the county, inspired by arts festivals in places such as Buxton and...
...Brant was jailed for failing to keep good records, not tax evasion; and to correct the dates cited for his horses’ Kentucky Derby wins....
...Though the Kentucky Derby remains the money-spinner for US bookmakers, informal office pools make the men’s college basketball tournament by far the nation’s most gambled-upon sporting event....
...Now the company has 12 locations, from Kentucky to Dubai, and after its latest round of investment funding it is scheduled to open 100 more this year....
...Churchill Downs, owner of the horse racing track that hosts the Kentucky Derby, announced it would buy the online betting company Youbet.com in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $127m....
...Weak roots: a £12m Derby office complex is on hold. South-west. Green shoots: the South West Regional Development Agency says the worst may be over and the region is “relatively well placed”....
...Prize projects South Africa’s MMA Architects has been named the inaugural winner of the $100,000 Curry Stone Design Prize for Humanitarian Innovation at the Idea Festival in Louisville, Kentucky....
...” - 2 and 20 on the Kentucky Derby. - Bubbly oil - Crack spread down 60% from recent peak - Does India need a sovereign wealth fund?...
...Royal Ascot, the Epsom Derby, its Kentucky equivalent, the Breeders’ Cup series that moves around a cluster of US racetracks, and the richly endowed Dubai World Cup, which takes place at the end of this...
...But can the one-time problem child turned champion George Washington win the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs in Kentucky this weekend? Of the attitude there is no doubt....
...On the other, across the pond, the plutocrats of the flat do battle at the rather grand Churchill Downs, in Louisville, US, the home of the Kentucky Derby and of this year’s Breeders’ Cup....
...Ghostzapper, last year’s outstandingly talented winner, has gone to stud, as have the Dubai World Cup winner Roses in May and the first and second in this year’s Kentucky Derby, Giacomo and Closing Argument...
...If Sheikh Mohammed has a dream about the Kentucky Derby, race-goers will want to know what Andrew Balding dreamed about last night....
...Horse cents The Kentucky Derby has always been an event associated with Southern gentility, but this Saturday the tony equestrian set will really be able to take it easy....
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