Originally it was a handicap race, and its distance was set at 2 miles (3,219 metres).

Maximum speed was set at 80 miles per hour.

The following day he won the Great Metropolitan which was set at two and a half miles.

The pace was set at twenty miles a day, which meant that every second or third day was one of rest.

In 1897, he set world records at 2, 3, 4, and 5 miles.

That, they said, would work about as well as the one setting the speed limit at 55 miles an hour.

Padilla, who won two previous events and set an American record at two miles, took the 3,000 meters in 7:50.27, a meet record.

August 1951 - Viking set a single-stage altitude and speed record of 135 miles at 4,100 miles per hour.

Following completion of the parkway the speed limit was set at twenty miles per hour.

In 2010, the race was set at 1 5/8 miles.