Popular Breeds Of Horse News for 07/09/2010



Cue: Going to the fair
When: July 9-17. Main Gate hours: 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 4 p.m. to midnight Fridays, 10 a.m. to midnight Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday...

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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...

Washington Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees announced
Joe Baze, a patriarch of the Baze racing dynasty, heads the 2010 class voted into the Washington Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame. Baze, trainer Bill McMeans, breeder Les Turner and Biggs were all voted into the Hall of Fame by a panel composed of the WTOBA, HBPA, Emerald Downs and the media...

$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...

World champions: Local girls win top equestrian honors
Sisters Andrea Nelson, 14, left, and Amanda Nelson, 10, right, stand by their horse, Executive Page, near their home in North Logan Wednesday. The sisters earned top awards in their age groups at the Youth World Championship Paint Horse Show. (Alan Murray/Herald Journal)..

Horse & Hound's hot topics: the horsiest county, foreigners and sprouts
Get a sneak preview of some of the topics discussed by our columnists and in our features in this week's magazine..

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...

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...



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