River Don Novices' Hurdle was 2 miles and 4 furlongs (4,023 metres), and there were ten hurdles to jump. The race has been sponsored since 2007 by the Albert Bartlett vegetable growing company, The 2006 and 2007 runnings took place at Wetherby. ---- River Don Novices' Hurdle The River Don Novices' Hurdle is a Grade 2 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Doncaster Racecourse over a distance of about 3 miles and 110 yards (4,929 metres), and during its running there are eleven hurdles to be jumped. The race
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles an Olympic misfortune in the hurdles, crashing in a heap on the first hurdle of the qualifying heat. , the existing World and Olympic records were as follows. The following records were established during the competition: The qualification period for athletics was 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the women's 100 metres hurdles, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had run the race in 12.96 seconds or faster during the qualification period. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had run the race in