Popular Breeds Of Horse News for 07/08/2010



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...

Blane Schvaneveldt dies at 76; legendary quarter horse trainer
He dominated Los Alamitos for decades, winning 5,186 out of 32,173 starts for more than $55 million in earnings. He was American Quarter Horse Assn.'s trainer of the year for 11 consecutive years. Blane Schvaneveldt, a hall of fame quarter horse trainer who dominated Los Alamitos Race Course for decades, racking up nearly 4,000 victories at the Orange County track, has died. He was 76...

Roger Beukema: Action on invasive carp needs to happen now
If Asian carp are allowed into the Great Lakes, this scene will become very rare...

DEAD BIRD TESTS POSITIVE FOR WEST NILE VIRUS
A dead mockingbird that tested positive for West Nile Virus is evidence that the disease is becoming more active in San Bernardino County...

Step Inside . Red Butte Gardens with Lyle Lovett
If there's one guy who's become almost synonymous with Texas, it's Lyle Lovett...

Armenia is the motherland of metallurgy, wine-making and horse breeding
Yerevan, July 6 : Excavations have revealed that Mesopotamia's civilization originated in Armenia, thus making it the motherland of metallurgy, jeweller's art, wine-making and horse breeding, according to archaeologists...

Better times at Arapahoe Park
Horse racing is in dire straits nationally. Yet something exceptional has happened in the first five weekends of the 2010 horse meeting at Arapahoe Park...

Kotloff | NBA glitz does not faze Ivies
Brian Kotloff While LeBron James has been cruising around Ohio in his limousine, listening to billion dollar pitches from NBA teams, members of the Penn basketball team have spent the summer doing what a basketball player should be doing in the offseason you know, playing basketball. Some might say its difficult to compare the environments of the NBA and NCAA, but now more than ever the two ...

$1.5-million/year CEO takes over at NYC OTB
Greg Rayburns $125,000-per-month appointment as president of bankrupt New York City Off Track Betting Corp. has drawn sharp criticism from the horse racing industry considering the corporations inability to make statutory payments...

In the Backcountry, a No-Guff Horseshoer Guards Hordes of Hooves
Ramona's Ricky Price has seen a lot of hype come and go in the 34 years he's been nailing shoes to horse hooves all the while...



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