Horse Racing
Triple Crown
- NBC has the rights to all three Triple Crown races through 2015.
- Kentucky Derby
- Preakness Stakes
- Belmont Stakes
- NBC Sports Network provides supplementary coverage of all three Triple Crown races, including previews and associated undercard races on Fridays preceding the Saturday Triple Crown Races:
- Kentucky Oaks
- Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
- Brooklyn Handicap
Breeders' Cup
- NBC and NBC Sports Network have the Breeders' Cup World Championships rights, with most races airing on NBC Sports Network and the Breeders' Cup Classic airing in primetime on NBC.
Read more about this topic: Sports Broadcasting Contracts In The United States
Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:
“If this bureau had a prayer for use around horse parks, it would go something like this: Lead us not among bleeding-hearts to whom horses are cute or sweet or adorable, and deliver us from horse-lovers. Amen.... With that established, let’s talk about the death of Seabiscuit the other night. It isn’t mawkish to say, there was a racehorse, a horse that gave race fans as much pleasure as any that ever lived and one that will be remembered as long and as warmly.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)