WhatIsHorseRacing

Horse racing is a state of mind. It's when you woke up the morning of the 2008 Belmont Stakes when Big Brown was attempting to become the first Triple Crown champion since the great Affirmed swept through the extraordinarily difficult series of races thirty years prior, in 1978. You woke up that morning and were so giddy with excitement, with so much emotion ready to literally explode from the very core of your being, that you simply could not, no matter what you tried - sleeping pills, Valium, reading, a strenuous workout at your local health club, a cold shower (and I mean ICE COLD!), a hot shower, separating the whites and colors before doing a wash, actually doing the wash, pulling the wet-but-washed clothing from the washer, transferring the load to the dryer, adding the fabric softener sheets, taking them out of the dryer upon completion, carefully determining whether or not all the clothes are actually dry, folding all the clothes nice and neat, walking from the laundry room to the bedroom, placing the hamper with the folded clothes on the bed, opening your drawers, removing the dried, folded clothes into the drawers, close the drawers, pick up the hamper, take it back to the laundry room, and replace the hamper. After this amazing display of nervous energy, you still cannot sit still and finally have to resort to running in place all day until the start of the 2008 Belmont, when you had the chance to see the crushing defeat of Big Brown. If you are the kind of person that gets excited at the prospect of a highly anticipated 3-2 pitch in the tie game in the late inning of a World Series, or a crucial fourth and one that will decide the game for your team, then you need to come inside this website and find out just what horse racing is! There are forums, videos, photographs, and an extensive glossary of terms that will spell out just what you've gotten yourself into!

The Triple Tiara - The Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, like the Triple Crown, is a series of three horse races. However, this race is meant for three-year-old fillies (female race horses). Originally, the Triple Tiara was composed of three races, all at Belmont Park. They consisted of the Acorn Stakes, a one-mile race; the Mother Goose Stakes, a 1 1/8 mile race; and the Coaching Club American Oaks, which began at 1 ½ miles, though was later reduced to 1 ¼ mile.

War Admiral - War Admiral (1934-1959), son of Man O’ War, was an American legend. Of 26 races, he won 21; he placed in the top three on every race but one. He earned over 0,000, a princely sum in the early twentieth century, and won the Triple Crown in 1937. He was a small horse, reaching only 15 ½ hands tall – smaller than the competition. He did, however, inherit his father’s talent. His jockey, Charles Kurtsinger, was War Admiral’s jockey until the horse’s retirement, and rode him to victory in the Triple Crown in 1937. His wins that year earned War Admiral the coveted Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year. He continued racing, winning 8 major races in 1938. During the Pimlico Special, he raced against Sea Biscuit, losing by four lengths in a race that many consider the best race in thoroughbred racing history. After his retirement, War Admiral became a leading sire of outstanding race horses.