Popular Breeds Of Horse News for 10/04/2009



Horse of the Year honors remain up for grabs (The Times of Trenton)
Well Saids victory in the Little Brown Jug last week certainly clinched his bid for Pacer of the Year honors and raises the question of who will earn Horse of the Year honors...

Syndicator 'legend of the turf' (The Age)
Harry Lawton did not discover the allure of the turf until more than halfway through his long life, when in 1971 he bought a one-sixth share in a racehorse, and offered to help his anxious co-owner by placing the rest of the shares...

Drumming up interest in drum horses (Yakima Herald-Republic)
Linda Hancock shows her drum horse, four-month-old American Sterling, at the Central Washington State Fair in Yakima, Wash. Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2009...

Pete Snowden's a lucky man (Herald Sun)
PETER Snowden can hardly believe his luck. To pre-train, educate and prepare three generations of equine royalty is the stuff of dreams...

Wet conditions fail to produce horse-pulling records at Hillsdale County Fair (The Jackson Citizen Patriot)
Erik Holladay | Jackson Citizen PatriotTerry Yoder of Florida guides his horses in the National Heavyweight Horse Pull at the Hillsdale County Fair. Soggy turf thwarted the reigning titans of heavyweight horse pulling in their attempt to set a world...

Pair of Americans see Cuba from saddles (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
By EMMA BROWN and JACOB FENSTON Washington Post We were coated in a slick of sweat, diesel exhaust and sunscreen when we coasted up to a man wearing just-shined shoes and drinking rum from a plastic cup. He squinted at our crinkled map, nodded, told us we wanted to go south to the beach at San Luis and walked off as we tried to explain that we were headed north...

Muscle Hill coasts in a Red Mile romp (Lexington Herald-Leader)
They are not so much races anymore for Muscle Hill as they are coronations. On Saturday, an appreci..

Muscle Hill wins Kentucky Futurity (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
Heavy favorite Muscle Hill remained undefeated this year with an easy 2 1/2 length victory Saturday in the $600,000 Kentucky Futurity at The Red Mile. The race, which is the third jewel of trotting's triple crown, requires that a horse win two heats in the same day in order to be victorious. In his first heat, Muscle Hill defeated Explosive Matter, who also finished second behind him in the...

Columbia local rides and wins at Bayer Select World Show (Columbia Missourian)
COLUMBIAEURDust flies as Watch This Way skids to a stop, as though Missy Hood had slammed on the brakes. Before the dust settles, Watch This Way EUR known around the barn as Red EUR pivots on his haunches and launches into a quick spin. EURThats reining,EUR Hood said as she rode over to the rail. EURThats what we are all about.EUR The horse and rider -- dubbed Team Red -- recently won the Amateur Reining ...

MOST POPULAR STORIES (Thoroughbred Times)
Mr. Sekiguchi, an $8-million purchase at the 2004 Keeneland September yearling sale, will relocate to Bridlewood Farm in Ocala for the 2010 breeding season. No stud fee was released...



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