Popular Breeds Of Horse News for 09/19/2009



English Authority Offering A Thousand Horse Books (Virtual Form Guide)
Sue Cameron, one of the best known authorities in the thoroughbred field in England, is winding down and has put the extensive library on racing and breeding she and her husband have collected from around the world over the past half century on the market for sale as a whole or individually...

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...

Son of a champion becomes a champion (The High Springs Herald)
To Post or View Comments, Scroll To The End of the Story. All it took was one look and Rhonda Tippin of High Springs knew she was looking at a world champion horse...

Simms-area sanctuary gives horses home (Great Falls Tribune)
With the in-crisis horse problem so great in Montana, an expansion of the Montana Horse Sanctuary's facilities was needed from the moment it opened outside of Helena five years ago...

Md. thoroughbred breeding likely to fall 18 percent in '09 (Baltimore Sun)
Thoroughbred horse breeding in Maryland is projected to fall 18 percent this year, more than twice the national average, The Jockey Club reported Thursday. Overall, breeding in North America is down 8.2 percent in 2009. With the decrease, Maryland drops from eighth to last among the 11 top foal-producing states and provinces. For the first time, Maryland ranks below Pennsylvania, the only state ...

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...

'My cancer treatment was hell': Exclusive extracts from Patrick Swayze's autobiography (Daily Mail: World News)
'My cancer treatment was hell': Exclusive extracts from Patrick Swayze's autobiography..

The little stable that could (The Globe and Mail)
The tragedy that left Joe MacLellan in a wheelchair was also the catalyst for his career breeding thoroughbreds. Tomorrow, he hopes to beat the odds again when his stable's star, Rahy's Attorney, tries to become the first horse to win the Woodbine Mile twice..



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