No matter which major city from around the world it is that you will visit, you are bound to witness a horse racing event – Australia, Mauritius, New Zealand, USA, UK, Europe, the Middle Eastern countries, and a few Asian countries. This equestrian sport has been around for centuries, but how exactly did it start out?

Before delving deeper into that, let us first check on the most popular forms of this sport. One of the most typical sights that you will see in affluent communities is Thoroughbred racing. In Australia, Standardbred horses racing is more popular – just like in New Zealand. Quarter horses racing; and purebred Arabian horses racing or endurance racing are other forms of the sport.

Important Breakthroughs in the History

After learning about some of the basic facts about it, let us now check on its history as a sport. Take a look at the following important specific dates, periods and breakthroughs in this sport:

- 4500 BCE
As mentioned earlier, horses racing as a sport has existed for centuries now. It actually started during this period when horses first became domesticated animals. Back then, it was Central Asian tribesmen who trained the animals – and this was the signal for horses racing to become a sport of the privileged and leisured.

- 680 BCE
According to the roster of ancient Olympics during this period, two-horse and four-horses racing was added to the gaming events.

- 753 BCE
One of the best ways to trace back the history of a centuries-old sport like this is to consult the ancient books – and it was in the story of Romulus’ founding of Rome during this period that the mythical city-founded organized a series of horse race events. The goal was to distract Sabine men abducted the women.

- 12th Century
This is the time that the horse race that we know of today came to be. During the 12th century, a wave of battle-weary English men returned from the Crusades with Arabian horses. The endurance of these animals over the English ones is incomparable – so they were used in this sport.

- 1702-1714
Under the rule of Queen Anne, the first modern races where spectators bid on their bets started. It was in 1759 that the Jockey Club was formed.

- 1894
Just like the English’ British Jockey Club, the American Jockey Club was established in this year to set up rules for breeding racing horses.

- 1930s-1970s
In the United States, the sport of horses racing has had its ups and downs – but it was during these decades when the popularity of champion horses like Seabiscuit revived the life of the sport.

Today, horse race has become almost a national tradition – especially in the state of Louisiana. Whether you’re a true-blue horse race fan, if you’re in it to win money or if you’re simply interested with the different facets of the sport, nothing beats the feeling of knowing that you know exactly how the sport came about so that you would appreciate its origins even more.

Are you tired of all the lies that people tell in internet marketing? They say they have the “Right” program to fill your every need? AND ALL OF THIS IS COMPLETELY FREE? They are lying to you. And thousands of others like you.

I will tell you the truth about internet marketing. While there is a lot of FREE info out there about how to start your own home-based internet marketing business, everyone and I mean EVERYONE leaves out the MOST important factor… Getting your site, or page, or blog, or ad, or whatever it is that you are going to do… viewed by the millions of people out there looking! They do not tell you that in order to have all that precious information you just downloaded or purchased is going to cost you a pretty penny to PROMOTE!

You are promised FREE WEBSITES, or FREE WEB HOSTING, or FREE INFO. There is a lot of free information out there for the taking, much of it download-able. But you can’t get to the juicy stuff because you have to upgrade, it is for the premium members only. You get a slice of the pie, but you can’t get the whole thing! Now, what’s up with that? What is a piece of the puzzle going to do for me if I can’t see the whole picture?

There are literally thousands of programs out there that people are making literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on EVERY DAY! And they are willing to give you their STEP-BY-STEP instructions on how you can do this too. Well, good for them! Eventually, you will purchase their product because they leave out the part where they end up paying hundreds and sometimes thousands of $$ to promote it! They lead you to believe that just because they GIVE you the product, that you will make the money that THEY make. And that’s just not true. They would like you to BELIEVE it is, but it is not.

Some of the programs I have seen they give you the copy-paste option to copy their methods exactly the way they did it. And they are making the big bucks, but they didn’t tell you it was going to cost you big bucks to promote the product. You have to spend money to make money is the most true statement I have ever heard.

Promoting your new website or product can be costly. In using the PPC campaigns, you put an actual cost on each click. It can range from $.01 to as much as $10.00 – if you ever want your ad or product shown. Being on page 10+ in any Google search… you will not get seen. Nobody even knows you are there! SO what is the point? You are beating a dead horse… so to speak. You may get some qualified clicks, but your conversion rate will still be $0! How do you propose to make any money like that? You will pay through the nose before you finally wise up and actually PURCHASE ADVERTISING. That’s the harsh reality of it all. You must purchase advertising to get any of your stuff shown in any qualified search engine.

Signing up for affiliate programs is a good thing, but promoting those affiliate links is hard. Promoting affiliate links is hard. How do you get people to click on your link if no one can see it? Pre-built websites with the links already embedded is a great thing, but promoting that website so that people can really click on your link is hard.

The only real answer to all of this is to promote your site or product is to PURCHASE ADVERTISING. Go to Google or Yahoo or MSN and buy a package! I am not going to tell you this will be cheap, because it is not. But if you want to make any real money on the internet, then making this purchase can get you off the ground. Once you gather some sort of a following, you can back off the paid advertising and rely on past customers to help you bring in new ones. It will raise your credibility with the search engines. Aside from that, once you build a basic customer base, you have something to expand on. They will help bring in referrals which can help your business tremendously.

I have spent a lot of money buying this program, and buying that program, and have gotten nowhere. I finally figured out why… I was not paying for my advertising. I was just relying on the fact that my site was out there and assumed that people would come to it and I would make money. I was IGNORANT! Sometimes, I think I STILL am, but I don’t like to admit that. Learn from my mistakes, and don’t spend a whole passel of money on the top of the line websites and the best programs out there… it won’t help you one bit without paid advertising. Take my word for it. I have no reason to lie to you.

If you are willing to pay for some quality advertising, then by all means, buy the program that you think you can make the best return on investment on! Go for it! Just remember to weigh the cost versus the benefit. DO YOUR RESEARCH. Read everything you can… take notes… and read it again! bookmark, copy and paste into a word doc so you can reference later if you forget!

Now for all you BIG internet marketers out there who are making the big bucks, I am happy for you. And I know why you do things the way you do, and hopefully one day I will be as big as you are. But for now, I think this piece of information will help prepare the newbies, like myself, and many others to see the real truth about this business. It is hard, and it is work and that is not a lie. You can not sit back and say that you haven’t had to make some pretty hefty investments to get to where you are today. If you do, then you are kidding yourself, not to mention lying to the rest of us.