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Short-Distance Racing Weapon: The North Face Summit Sky 2 First Look Review

The super shoe revolution in trail running is a few seasons old at this point. Where all roads lead to Nike’s Alphafly with a handful of worthy number twos, there’s still no one defining super shoe ...
Yahoo! Sports

What's a furlong? What to know about the horse racing distance ahead of Kentucky Derby

The 151st Kentucky Derby is set to be run on Saturday, May 3, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. While horse racing enthusiasts look forward to the beginning of the three races that make up ...
The Blood-Horse

Distance Causes Brown to Skip BC Filly and Mare Turf

When pre-entries for the Breeders' Cup World Championships were released Oct. 23, one surprise was the absence of a Chad Brown trainee among the potential starters in the Nov. 2 Breeders' Cup Filly ...
Times-Standard

Horse racing | Long-distance specialists shine in Humboldt Marathon

No California-based trainer has ever completed the famed North-South ‘DOUBLE,’ winning both the Pacific Classic at Del Mar and the C.J. Hindley-Humboldt County Marathon Handicap in the same year. In ...
The Blood-Horse

Last Race at Saratoga Contested at Incorrect Distance

The New York Racing Association "is reviewing the circumstances around race 12, which was contested at the incorrect distance of 1 1/16 miles rather than 1 1/8 miles," said Pat McKenna, vice president ...