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Happy new year 2008! 2008-01-01 05:39:13 As another new year blossoms, may your life’s journey be filled with love, new hopes and friendships. May this bright New Year bring even more joy among your horses.
HAPPY 2008 EVERYONE! Read more:Happy
Merry Christmas 2007-12-24 04:05:59 Now is the season to be jolly. We wish you all joy, love and happiness for Christmas
!
May Jesus Bless you and your family as you go on all your rides Read more:Merry
, Merry Christmas
Queen For A Day 2007-06-22 22:03:27 Again a horse stumbled out of the gate, and again that
horse was in front at the finish. Only it wasn’t Curlin,
and it wasn’t even a colt. It was Rags to Riches, who not
only took on and took down her male contemporaries, but
did what no filly had done in more than a century: win
the Belmont Stakes.
And [...] Read more:Queen
Street Sense Heads for Easy Street, and the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation 2007-06-03 14:10:08 No surprises for me this week with the news from the
StreetSense
connections that their boy would be passing
on the Belmont Stakes, and they have sold him as a
stallion prospect to Darley Stud, which already owns his
sire Street Cry and dam Bedazzle.
The only reason, at this point, for Street Sense to keep
racing at all is [...] Read more:Foundation
, Heads
The Triple Crown Goes Back on the Shelf and A Rivalry 2007-05-26 09:57:26 My toes were ‘curlin’ with excitement while I was watching
the stretch run of the Preakness last Saturday and
wondering if and when my chosen steed would ever change
his leads.
He finally did, and I suppose I can offer myself a pat on
the back for picking Curlin to win, and even more for
narrowing the competition down to him [...] Read more:Crown
, Rivalry
, Shelf
, Triple
Preakness Prognostications 2007-05-19 06:30:38
War Admiral was not the only casualty of the 1938 Pimlico
Special, which became the famous match race immortalized
in the movie ‘Seabiscuit.’ The Pimilico infield’s slight
promontory, known as Old Hilltop, on which hundreds of
thousands trainers and racing fans had stood through 67
years of racing was leveled in April of 1938, so that it
would not obstruct the [...]
The Street Fighter Triumphs 2007-05-12 04:10:17 Well, I didn’t do too badly with my Kentucky Derby
predictions; I just had the wrong horse finishing first.
Street
Sense and Calvin Borel took their time, picked
their spots, and in general put in one of the finest
horse/jockey team efforts, in making hash out of a
twenty-horse field, that I have ever witnessed.
Riding with their [...]
Kentucky Derby 2007 2007-05-01 08:28:39 Beyer speed figures. Dosage indexes. Post positions.
Track conditions. Past performances.
Put them all in a jockey’s cap, toss them up in the air,
watch where they fall, and then try reading some sense
into them. You’ll have as much chance as anyone of
picking out the name of the 2007 Kentucky
Derby winner.
As with every Kentucky Derby, the one [...]
Galloping Gold: How Much Is a Triple Crown Winner Worth? 2007-04-23 10:52:50 With the Kentucky Derby of 2007 approaching, all race fans
are slowly turning their eyes towards Churchill Downs in
Louisville, where the hopeful Thoroughbred bluebloods and
their entourages will soon be descending. Should one of
those royally-bred horses–Circular Quay, Street Sense, or
Cowtown Cat, for instance– prove very, very good, and
very, very lucky, he will, in mid-June, have a [...] Read more:Crown
, Galloping
, Triple
, Worth
Haflingers: The Other Austrian Breed 2007-04-12 13:19:10 Everyone who cares about horses knows about the Lipizzaner
of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria. I, in
fact, made a blog post here about them not long ago.
But not very many people outside of Austria, including here
in Canada, are familiar with a breed of horses even more
indigenously Austrian
than the Lipizzaner. I did [...] Read more:Breed
Icelandic Ponies: Pasos of the North 2007-04-03 06:43:01 When doing the research for my blog entry on Pasos, I
wanted to know if there were any the horses which could
perform the Paso Llano so closely associated with the
Peruvians.
The answer, which surprised me, is “Yes.” But what
surprised me even more is which other breed has this
delightfully smooth action in its collection of gaits.
To [...] Read more:North
Peruvian Pasos: The Best Ride on Earth? 2007-03-27 10:07:41 Although spring officially arrived less than a week ago, I
am already planning a summer trip to visit my friends in
Missouri. We were debating what we would do for our week
together, and got one idea from the website for a farm
about ninety minutes southwest of Saint Louis. The farm
offers week long trail riding vacations—I [...] Read more:Earth
Barbaro’s Baby Brother 2007-03-22 12:04:53 With all the racing sites happily reporting that Barbaro
’s
yearling brother now has a name, Nicanor, after another
foxhound in the same painting from which Barbaro’s name
was taken, I thought I would take a look at what has
happens to the younger siblings of other great racehorses.
The truth is that a breeder is about as [...] Read more:Brother
Remembering Misty through Mists of Time 2007-03-13 11:12:36 When I was in the fourth grade, more years ago than I care
to remember, my teacher, Miss Sears, would read one
chapter of a book to the class each morning. I still
remember how excited I was when she chose Marguerite
Henry’s “Misty
of Chincoteague” as one of the books she
would read that year.
And as I was [...] Read more:Mists
, Remembering
Airs Above the Ground 2007-03-06 11:32:39 Pluto, Conversano, Favory, Neapolitano, Siglavy, and
Maestoso.
Are they names of characters from one Shakespeare’s more
obscure plays? No.
But they are responsible for some of the elite performers
of their species.
Those six names belong to the six stallions from which
every Lipizzaner, the magnificent white ballet-dancing
stallions of the Spanish Riding School, is descended.
Pluto was a grey horse of Spanish [...]
Barefoot in the Parks: Houston’s Police Horses 2007-02-27 13:40:07 A few weeks ago I wrote about a hoof treatment known as
the “Barefoot
Trim”, based on the theory that horses’
hooves were much better off if they were allowed to go
shoeless.
The idea is that iron shoes will not permit the
hooves to expand as they com into contact with the ground,
and if they are not expanding properly, [...] Read more:Horses
, Houston
, Parks
, Police
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