Popular Breeds Of Horse News for 07/11/2010



A trifecta?
Eleven-year-old Dillin Gehris had never been to a horse race...

Chris McGrath: Ballydoyle raise Starspangled standard over sprint division
Nobody thought to ask the poor old horse, of course, but then it was easy to imagine which way his own vote would have gone...

Third horse dies from EEE
A third Collier County horse has died after contracting a mosquito-borne illness, Eastern Equine Encephalitis..

Hollywood Casino hopes advent of table games can 're-energize' horse racing
Eleven-year-old Dillin Gehris had never been to a horse race. As steeds paced the paddock before the first race at Penn National Race Course in East Hanover Township Thursday evening, Dillins grandfather Larry Conrad, 67, of Oley, leaned down and patiently explained to him what was going on...

Starspangledbanner to race on
Starspangledbanner will miss the 2010 Australian breeding season with Coolmore electing to keep the July Cup winner in training. The winner of two Group One races in Australia, Starspangledbanner was sold to Coolmore earlier this year...

Competition, recession have hurt Va. horse-racing industry
Virginia's legacy of horse racing is in jeopardy. The recession and an industry in decline nationally are partly to blame...

Banner flies flag for Australia with star performance in July Cup at Newmarket
STARSPANGLEDBANNER will be set for the big sprints around the world following his July Cup win in England, after Coolmore decided against bringing him back for this breeding season in Australia...

All 47 seized Arabian horses auctioned in McKinney
All 47 of the emaciated Arabian horses seized last month by Collin County authorities were auctioned Saturday in McKinney...

WEB/TECH: High Speed for the Sparsely Wired
Government stimulus spending is a contentious issue right now in Washington. But the $7.2 billion in the last stimulus package for extending high-speed Internet access is just beginning to be spent, and the beneficiaries could not be happier. Cynthia K. Wegener, the owner of a horse farm in rural Kansas, is among those who will benefit from $7.2 billion in government spending on high-speed ...

Extending Broadband Service to the Disconnected
A $7.2 billion federal stimulus package will help extend high-speed access to more poor and rural sections of the United States...



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