Popular Breeds Of Horse News for 03/08/2010



Praying for rain (Straight Furrow)
The farm is dry, production is dropping and what rain that hits our region seems to fall in a horse shoe fashion right around our farm completely missing us. As I write, the promise of thunderstorms looms and we wait in hope...

Florida thoroughbred breeders run into hard times (The Ocala Star-Banner)
By Carlos E. Medina Correspondent Florida's thoroughbred breeding industry, consistently second in the nation behind Kentucky, has seen its market share in the foal crop shrink.(The Associated Press/file)..

Horse breeders fate in hands of judge (The Daily Mail)
An animal grazing on hay at Paragallo's Climax horse ranch Friday. Paragallo claims to continue overseeing the operations there despite the current anial abuse trila he is currently undergoing...

EUR˜Thoroughbred provides introduction to horse racing (Thoroughbred Times)
The most visually powerful scene in Thoroughbred also answers the question newcomers surely will ask as they watch sheikhs spend millions at sales, owners despair over an ill-timed injury, and breeders, trainers, and gamblers devote time and money to the sport...

Wild-horse controversy heads to federal court (Daily Record)
WASHINGTON - Americans were outraged two years ago when federal officials threatened to kill more than 10,000 wild mustangs running free throughout the West...

Misremembered captures G1 Santa Anita Handicap (ESPN)
Regardless of whether time is measured in decades or years, Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has been waiting for a horse like Misremembered and a race such as Saturday's $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap for a long time...

Horse breeder Thomson dies at 98 (The Santa Ynez Valley News)
Walter J. Thomson, founder of the Rancho Felicia breeding program in Santa Ynez, died Feb. 1 at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, after a long illness, with his wife Mary Jean at his side...

Medaglia dOro to shuttle to Australia (Thoroughbred Times)
Multiple Grade 1 winner Medaglia dOro , sire of 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, will shuttle to Australia for the 2010 Southern Hemisphere breeding season...

Sam Waley-Cohen gets on his hobby horse (Times Online)
Sam Waley-Cohen, or Mr S Waley-Cohen as he appears on the racecard, laughs at a riding instruction given him once by the great French trainer Guillaume Macaire. EURœIf the plan doesnt work, use your genius.EUR..

Court set to hear challenge to feds' care of wild horses (The Arizona Republic)
A debate about the future of wild horses in the West underscores the challenges of managing rapidly growing herds and finding a lasting solution to a problem that is costing American taxpayers millions of dollars each year...



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