The boy rode the stallion in a trot around the camp, cooling it down after a long gallop across the steppe. He was humming his favorite Mongolian hip-hop ...
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TURNING for home in the seventh race on a filly named Don't Stop Dreamin, gaining wide on the outside, Joe Bravo made his move. Charging up the stretch ...
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Some 50,000 people lined Great Meadow in The Plains on Saturday to take in the spectacle of the 83rd Virginia Gold Cup Races, watching Bubble Economy and ...
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Israeli jockeys Doron Ben Menashe and Sallem El-Oqbi will raise their 20-year-old rivalry to new levels at the Gilboa Festival on Tuesday when they battle ...
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Jockey Shane Kelly was yesterday banned from riding for a year at the conclusion of the latest Horseracing Regulatory Authority's investigation into corruption ...
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Four jockeys, a trainer, a former owner and six others were charged with various corruption offenses Friday by British horse racing's governing body. ...
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BAD rides? Can they be defined as when a horse which should have won is beaten? Maybe that's too simplistic. But to what degree should the jockey be held ...
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THE world's most controversial jockey is adamant the Melbourne Cup is heading back to Ireland. Kieren Fallon may be banned from racing in the UK but the ...
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Britain's racing chiefs have ruled that stable staff must wear body protectors while mounted. The Horseracing Regulatory Authority made the decision on ...
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Australian jockey Christopher Munce was Thursday charged by the Independent Commission Against Corruption with alleged involvement in a HK$1.6 million ...
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Koei has announced the hugely successful G1 Jockey series for the Nintendo Wii. The Wiimote will be used as the whip and the nunchuck used to steer and ...
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Dubai's ruling family has been served with a class-action lawsuit in the United States accusing them of masterminding an international child slave trade ...
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Cape Town jockey Christopher Puller has been suspended from riding for two months after he failed to pull up and dismount a racehorse with a broken leg. ...
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A quarter horse jockey is under investigation for allegedly using an electronic buzzer on his horse during the second race at Fairplex Park last Sunday. ...
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Ladies and gentlemen, if you please.
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So much for the "death of the dress code". As the racing world descends on Ascot on Tuesday, the organisers are keener than ever to raise the stakes ...
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Much has been written about the nation's disappointment over Big Brown's big flop.
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Odds are being displayed on a television monitor and the TAB is taking bets.
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As a horseman for nearly 40 years, I looked forward with eager anticipation to this year's running of the Kentucky Derby. But my excitement was tempered ...
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It is almost post time for the Belmont Stakes and Big Brown's pusuit of history. While we are waiting, here are five favorite movies about horse racing.
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In his new book, "Crazy Good,'' Charles Leerhsen describes wading into the Credit River in Scott County, looking for a legend. He had been given, in ...
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Australian racing officials have forced a name change for a horse whose previous moniker was an Arabic phrase that translates to a popular profanity.
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Win or lose the Triple Crown, Big Brown is probably gone from racing after the Belmont Stakes.
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Give a racing thoroughbred a pinch of baking soda or a shot of caffeine and chances are the stimulants will not only help it beat records but also break ...
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In the fractious sport of horse racing, even dirt can create controversy.
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John and Beau Greely originally called Tres Borrachos their "beer-money horse," one who didn't represent a big investment but might have provided some ...
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The Dexter Cup is an annual tribute to the great trotter Dexter, who dominated harness racing in the mid-to-late 1860s and twice lowered the world record ...
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n one respect, less has become more during the 30 years since Affirmed became the last of racing's 11 Triple Crown winners, with Alydar battling him every ...
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Just as eight bells would signal, in maritime tradition, the end of one watch and the beginning of another, so did Eight Belles render a clarion call for ...
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The event on 19 July, at the centre in Whitchurch, will check the animal's weight using specialist equipment.
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Ladies and gentlemen, if you please.
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Seventy horses are lined up outside the house of Sidibe Saalou, chief of Barani. They have been arriving since sunrise, resplendent in tasselled bridles, ...
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There are fools and there are fools. And then, way off the scale of foolishness, there's me. So it was that, somewhere in the terrifying blur of the first ...
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It wouldn't be terribly comfortable for you to snooze standing up, but the opposite is true for horses. That's because of the way their bodies are built.
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I'm not sure Rose likes me. When I smile and try to chat her up, she flutters her oversized brown eyelashes then tosses her head in the other direction. ...
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Lawsuits fought in the halls of Austin could play in to the working world of Weatherford. The issue in debate is equine dentistry, and it has pitted horse ...
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IN 1964 a new car was launched at the New York World's Fair: the Ford Mustang. Both its name and its galloping horse logo, adapted from Frederic Remington's ...
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Lynn Jendrowski's dream of competing in the Beijing Olympics never quite materialized.
But in the true spirit of competition, she hasn't given up ...
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The future of Great Britain's oldest breed of heavy horse has received a welcome boost with the birth of a new foal at Banham Zoo.
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Wilbuuuur, what has the world come to? The estate of the widow of the creator of "Mr. Ed" has filed a lawsuit, claiming when it comes to paying up, MGM ...
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So there I was with Tom Hanks and his family, just hanging out. We were all of us in Siena, Italy, for the July 2 running of the Palio race, an event that ...
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Fred Piraux has been grooming his horse Thorgal three hours a day, polishing replica 15th-century armor and taking lessons in medieval dancing.
Next ...
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There was a time when the horsy set brought to mind pampered gentry who wore jodhpurs and attended things like coming out balls. Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia ...
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'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse," I thought to myself as I sat down to dinner the other night. If I hadn't picked out the steak myself I would ...
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This year's Summer Olympics in Beijing China promise to showcase the growing power and international influence of the largest populated country in the ...
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U.S. veterinarians at the Smithsonian's National Zoo say they have performed the first reverse vasectomy on an endangered equine species.
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Forensic scientists have proved the champion Australian gelding Phar Lap died of arsenic poisoning, solving a mystery which has intrigued the horse racing ...
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The mystery surrounding Big Brown and his failure to win the Triple Crown continues. It didn't help that his trainer, Rick Dutrow Jr., snubbed Congress ...
More
It wouldn't be terribly comfortable for you to snooze standing up, but the opposite is true for horses. That's because of the way their bodies are built.
Horses ...
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The event on 19 July, at the centre in Whitchurch, will check the animal's weight using specialist equipment.
Veterinary surgeon Janet Harrison will ...
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I'm not sure Rose likes me. When I smile and try to chat her up, she flutters her oversized brown eyelashes then tosses her head in the other direction. ...
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A HORSEBACK "Good Neighbours" parade ground to a halt when drunken riders stopped to buy more drink and use public toilets.
They brought the grand ...
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He was destined by birth and circumstance to be a workhorse, but he became a rodeo star. This is the story of Trail's End.
A sheepherder, wanting a ...
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The federal Bureau of Land Management, which oversees management of wild horses and burros on public lands, said sharply rising energy costs are driving ...
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$25 might only buy you a couple of gallons of gas. But, it can get you a different kind of horse power too.
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Lawsuits fought in the halls of Austin could play in to the working world of Weatherford. The issue in debate is equine dentistry, and it has pitted horse ...
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IN 1964 a new car was launched at the New York World's Fair: the Ford Mustang. Both its name and its galloping horse logo, adapted from Frederic Remington's ...
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Lynn Jendrowski's dream of competing in the Beijing Olympics never quite materialized.
But in the true spirit of competition, she hasn't given up ...
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The future of Great Britain's oldest breed of heavy horse has received a welcome boost with the birth of a new foal at Banham Zoo.
Cute colt Ufford ...
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Wilbuuuur, what has the world come to? The estate of the widow of the creator of "Mr. Ed" has filed a lawsuit, claiming when it comes to paying up, MGM ...
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So there I was with Tom Hanks and his family, just hanging out. We were all of us in Siena, Italy, for the July 2 running of the Palio race, an event that ...
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Fred Piraux has been grooming his horse Thorgal three hours a day, polishing replica 15th-century armor and taking lessons in medieval dancing.
Next ...
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There was a time when the horsy set brought to mind pampered gentry who wore jodhpurs and attended things like coming out balls. Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia ...
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'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse," I thought to myself as I sat down to dinner the other night. If I hadn't picked out the steak myself I would ...
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This year's Summer Olympics in Beijing China promise to showcase the growing power and international influence of the largest populated country in the ...
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U.S. veterinarians at the Smithsonian's National Zoo say they have performed the first reverse vasectomy on an endangered equine species.
The procedure ...
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Forensic scientists have proved the champion Australian gelding Phar Lap died of arsenic poisoning, solving a mystery which has intrigued the horse racing ...
More
The mystery surrounding Big Brown and his failure to win the Triple Crown continues. It didn't help that his trainer, Rick Dutrow Jr., snubbed Congress ...
More
TURNING for home in the seventh race on a filly named Don't Stop Dreamin, gaining wide on the outside, Joe Bravo made his move. Charging up the stretch ...
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It is almost post time for the Belmont Stakes and Big Brown's pusuit of history. While we are waiting, here are five favorite movies about horse racing.
1. ...
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In the fractious sport of horse racing, even dirt can create controversy.
The issue is dirt tracks versus synthetic surfaces, a debate that has come ...
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Following the breakdown of the brilliant filly Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago and her on-track euthanizing, the blame -- and complaints ...
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