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| Horses Diaries |
| I hope this blog will be a place where other horse lovers can join me to share a mutual love for, and understanding of, our magical equine companions, and exchange stories our own experiences with, and concerns about, them. |
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| Happy new year 2008! |
| 2008-01-01 05:39:13 |
As another new year blossoms, may your life’s journey be filled with love, new hopes and friendships. May this bright New Year bring even more joy among your horses.
HAPPY 2008 EVERYONE!...
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| Merry Christmas |
| 2007-12-24 04:05:59 |
Now is the season to be jolly. We wish you all joy, love and happiness for Christmas !
May Jesus Bless you and your family as you go on all your rides...
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| Queen For A Day |
| 2007-06-22 22:03:27 |
Again a horse stumbled out of the gate, and again that
horse was in front at the finish. Only it wasn’t Curlin,
and it wasn’t even a colt. It was Rags to Riches, who not
only took on and took down her male contemporaries, but
did what no filly had done in more than a century: win
the Belmont Stakes.
And [...]...
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| Street Sense Heads for Easy Street, and the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation |
| 2007-06-03 14:10:08 |
No surprises for me this week with the news from the
Street Sense connections that their boy would be passing
on the Belmont Stakes, and they have sold him as a
stallion prospect to Darley Stud, which already owns his
sire Street Cry and dam Bedazzle.
The only reason, at this point, for Street Sense to keep
racing at all is [...]...
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| The Triple Crown Goes Back on the Shelf and A Rivalry |
| 2007-05-26 09:57:26 |
My toes were ‘curlin’ with excitement while I was watching
the stretch run of the Preakness last Saturday and
wondering if and when my chosen steed would ever change
his leads.
He finally did, and I suppose I can offer myself a pat on
the back for picking Curlin to win, and even more for
narrowing the competition down to him [...]...
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| Preakness Prognostications |
| 2007-05-19 06:30:38 |
War Admiral was not the only casualty of the 1938 Pimlico
Special, which became the famous match race immortalized
in the movie ‘Seabiscuit.’ The Pimilico infield’s slight
promontory, known as Old Hilltop, on which hundreds of
thousands trainers and racing fans had stood through 67
years of racing was leveled in April of 1938, so that it
would not obstruct the [...]...
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| The Street Fighter Triumphs |
| 2007-05-12 04:10:17 |
Well, I didn’t do too badly with my Kentucky Derby
predictions; I just had the wrong horse finishing first.
Street Sense and Calvin Borel took their time, picked
their spots, and in general put in one of the finest
horse/jockey team efforts, in making hash out of a
twenty-horse field, that I have ever witnessed.
Riding with their [...]...
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| Kentucky Derby 2007 |
| 2007-05-01 08:28:39 |
Beyer speed figures. Dosage indexes. Post positions.
Track conditions. Past performances.
Put them all in a jockey’s cap, toss them up in the air,
watch where they fall, and then try reading some sense
into them. You’ll have as much chance as anyone of
picking out the name of the 2007 Kentucky Derby winner.
As with every Kentucky Derby, the one [...]...
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| Galloping Gold: How Much Is a Triple Crown Winner Worth? |
| 2007-04-23 10:52:50 |
With the Kentucky Derby of 2007 approaching, all race fans
are slowly turning their eyes towards Churchill Downs in
Louisville, where the hopeful Thoroughbred bluebloods and
their entourages will soon be descending. Should one of
those royally-bred horses–Circular Quay, Street Sense, or
Cowtown Cat, for instance– prove very, very good, and
very, very lucky, he will, in mid-June, have a [...]...
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| Haflingers: The Other Austrian Breed |
| 2007-04-12 13:19:10 |
Everyone who cares about horses knows about the Lipizzaner
of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria. I, in
fact, made a blog post here about them not long ago.
But not very many people outside of Austria, including here
in Canada, are familiar with a breed of horses even more
indigenously Austrian than the Lipizzaner. I did [...]...
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