Popular Breeds Of Horse News for 07/05/2010



Stable partners: KU student taking horse to worldwide equestrian competition
What little hope Emily Wagner had for qualifying for the 2010 FEI World Breeding Championships for dressage horses seemed dashed at the end of day one at the selection trials...

Boom colt unlikely to return for stud duties
HORSE RACING Sprinting sensation Starspangledbanner makes such an impact on English racing that three-year old unlikely to return to Australia for forthcoming breeding season...

Jockey takes a bow for the Queen
It was a case of the lower the better for a winning jockey when he was presented to the Queen and gave a seemingly back breaking bow...

Jayne McKenney Meredith dies
Thoroughbred breeder attended 50 consecutive Preakness Stakes Jayne McKenney Meredith, who assisted in the operation of a Baltimore County horse breeding farm and attended 50 consecutive Preakness Stakes, died of Alzheimer's disease complications June 26 at the Blakehurst Retirement Community in Towson. She was 90 and had lived in Kingsville...

Arabian nights -- and days Get carried away by this weekend's Arabian Horse Show
S cherezhade should've been so lucky to attend the Arabian Horse Show at the Stanley Fairgrounds...

Turpin steals in to rob respected rivals of glory
There is a slightly anthropomorphic notion that horses who run up a sequence of near misses somehow deserve a victory in due course, as though gallant effort is in itself worthy of the ultimate reward. Dick Turpin certainly deserved yesterday's success in the Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly, his first Group One strike, but not because of his previous three successive runner-up spots at that level ...

Big Red Mike takes Queens Plate
Big Red Mike led the Queens Plate from start to finish, becoming the third consecutive horse to win Canadas most prestigious race after placing first in the trial race...

Starspangledbanner aimed at July Cup
CONFIDENCE is growing about Starspangledbanner's chances of ending the Australian hoodoo in the July Cup this weekend...

Coolmore to take on world with sprinting star
JULY Cup favourite Starspangledbanner may not return for this year's breeding season in an attempt to become Australia's greatest racing export to Europe...

Birds of prey and ancient burial grounds draw tourists to Kazakhstan
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - From his high perch, a huge hunting eagle fixes his intense copper eyes on the moving shape below. He pitches forward, signaling his intention and showing talons the size of puma fangs...



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