Popular Breeds Of Horse News for 05/01/2010



Jenny Craig's Horse Racing in the Kentucky Derby
The diet empire mogul's horse, Sidney's Candy, is a favorite for Saturday..

Pick the horse with the best name to win the Kentucky Derby
Derby Day is a ball any way you slice it. But how to pick the winner? Most people look for a horse with good breeding, early speed and staying power. I go by the names...

Seacrest Gets a Pony, Ringwald Writes Baloney
Rich power emcee Ryan Seacrest has many things, and finally, thanks to The Soup (and a mutant-horse breeding farm), he has every boy's dream: a miniature pony. Now all he needs is a...

Derby horse Homeboykris has Md. ties
Baltimore County-bred horse is a longshot Baltimore County-bred horse is a longshot..

Horse-breeding industry destroyed, future grim
ROBERT Mugabe, sir, in the vain hope that you might possibly sneak away from your "minders" for a quiet moment and read this letter, not to mention the even vainer hope that you will actually care, let me lay before you the facts concerning the thoroughbred racing and breeding industries in our land, Zimbabwe, in this desperate year, 2003. Last Friday, May 16, in the Nelson Mandela Hall at ...

Tim Layden: Even grand Kentucky Derby can't mask horse racing's sad state
LOUISVILLE -- Horse racing awakens this weekend at Churchill Downs, as it does every year on the first weekend in May. Friday afternoon more than 100,000 people will stuff the track for the running of the Kentucky Oaks for three-year-old fillies and an undercard of races that includes 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra. On Saturday that number will swell to more than 150,000 for the ...

Which Kentucky Derby Winner Is the Biggest Stud?
After a horse wins the Kentucky Derby, you can bet that it becomes as valuable for its breeding ability as it was for its running ability in the race. However, despite 135 years of championship breeding, only one Derby winner has fathered more than one future winner, and just two bloodlines dominate the sport today...

Budweiser Clydesdale breeding facility set to open for tours
BOONVILLE Warm Springs Ranch in Boonville is home to more than 100 Budweiser Clydesdales and for the first time beginning Saturday, the public will have an opportunity to meet the gentle giants and tour the breeding facility...

A Downbeat Derby Weekend: Writer Trots Out Horse Racing's Money Woes
This annual running of the Kentucky Derby -- this weekend marks the 136th running -- is meant to mark a joyous time of the year, with its frilly hats, mint juleps, betting slips, and of course, the horses...

Cash Shortage Could Stall Horse Races At Saratoga
For the first time since World War II, there's a chance that horse racing will be canceled this year in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The state's thoroughbred industry is mired in debt and tangled in a fierce political battle in Albany. Without a $17 million dollar bridge loan from the state, the season could be called off, devastating the region's economy...



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