Popular Breeds Of Horse News for 09/17/2009



Horse tests positive for West Nile Virus (The Staunton News Leader)
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services today announced the second positive case of West Nile Virus in a horse in 2009...

Finn McCool stands supreme at Sports Horse Breeding (GB) championship (Horse and Hound)
Guy Landau and Finn McCool were crowed supreme champions at the Sports Horse Breeding (GB) national championship show..

Defense begins in horse abuse trial (The Escanaba Daily Press)
ESCANABA - The defense began presenting its case Wednesday in the trial of two men who allegedly abused horses in Rapid River. The animal cruelty case against Marvin Earl Harris, 75, Chicago, and Arnold Berthold Proehl, 61, Rapid River, entered its fourth day today. The defense called two witnesses Wednesday who testified the horses which were allegedly neglected had been cared for...

Cuba hopes green tourism can keep it in the black (AP via Yahoo! News)
Crocodile 0383 is too tiny to be menacing...

Keeneland auction brings $1.3 million sale (Louisville Courier-Journal)
A filly by the sire of likely Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra brought $1.3 million Wednesday at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale...

Augusta County Horse Tests Positive for West Nile (WHSV Harrisonburg)
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced Monday the second positive case of West Nile Virus in a horse in 2009...

Hero horse in line for bushfire bravery award (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The RSPCA says it will consider a posthumous Purple Cross award for a north-east Victorian horse that saved other animals during a Black Saturday bushfire...

Horse racing: Mack's race seems unlikely (Houston Chronicle)
Known as Mattress Mack, Gallery Furniture's Jim McIngvale was the first to offer a rich purse were Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra to race each other at Sam Houston Race Park...

Cuba hopes green tourism can keep it in the black (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Crocodile 0383 is too tiny to be menacing. Three weeks old and barely the length of a candy bar, the gray and brownish-yellow beast already has all 64 jagged teeth, which glint like crushed glass in the tropical sun...

Horse Prices Plummet At Keeneland (The Kentucky Post)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A sagging thoroughbred market sent prices plummeting again Monday at Keeneland's annual yearling sale, the first opening session in 13 years in which no horse collected at least $1 million at auction...



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