Like I Said before the races were held in a specially built arena, called the Hippodrome. The Hippodrome had posts that marking when turns were coming up. The hippodrome could fit 100,000 people! The races were always one lap around a tree stump. Gaius Appuleius Diocles won the most amount of prize money for winning Chariot Races. Gaius won 35,863,120 dollars in prize money. He was one of the most famous and richest chariot racers of all time. Diomedes and Menelaus were also very famous racers. The team of horses was called the auriga. The best horse was the funalis. The funalis was on the extreme left side of the racer. The horses were there mostly for speed. A two horse team is a biga, a three horse team is called a triga and a four horse team is called a quadriga. Those were the horse teams. My reaserch was found on http://www.unrv.com/culture/chariot-races.php, and http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/horse/how-we-shaped-horses-how-horses-shaped-us/sport/the-chariot-race.
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