<P> There has traditionally been no horse racing on Good Friday in the UK . However, in 2008, betting shops and stores opened for the first time on this day and in 2014 Lingfield Park and Musselburgh staged the UK's first Good Friday race meetings . The BBC has for many years introduced its 7 am News broadcast on Radio 4 on Good Friday with a verse from Isaac Watts' hymn "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross". </P> <P> In the United States, Good Friday is not a government holiday at the federal level; however, individual states, counties and municipalities may observe the holiday . Good Friday is a state holiday in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky (half day), Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas . State and local government offices and courts are closed, as well as some banks and post offices in these states, and in those counties and municipalities where Good Friday is observed as a holiday . Good Friday is also a holiday in the U.S. territories of Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico . </P> <P> The stock markets are closed on Good Friday but the foreign exchange and bond trading markets open for a partial business day . Most retail stores remain open, while some of them may close early . Public schools and universities are often closed on Good Friday, either as a holiday of its own, or as part of spring break . The postal service operates, and banks regulated by the federal government do not close for Good Friday . </P> <P> In some governmental contexts Good Friday has been referred to by a generic name such as "spring holiday". In 1999, in the case of Bridenbaugh v. O'Bannon, an Indiana state employee sued the governor for giving state employees Good Friday as a day off . The US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the plaintiff, stating that the government could give state employees a paid day off when that day is a religious holiday, including Good Friday, but only so long as the state can provide a valid secular purpose that coincides with the obvious religious purpose of the holiday . </P>

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