California Newswire (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
WARRINGTON, Pa. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Special Equestrians is proud to announce our partnership with the Philadelphia Race Park. Special Equestrians will be providing stall rest to injured race horses. These horses will be part of our Youth Connections Program for At-Risk Youth. 'Our vulnerable youth will be introduced to the plight of these vulnerable horses...
send2press (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
WARRINGTON, Pa. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Special Equestrians is proud to announce our partnership with the Philadelphia Race Park. Special Equestrians will be providing stall rest to injured race horses. These horses will be part of our Youth Connections Program for At-Risk Youth. 'Our vulnerable youth will be introduced to the plight of these vulnerable horses with...
Dayton Daily News (Free subscription) | yesterday
When he was a just boy, Chris McGuire’s dad and uncles visited the Lebanon Raceway, bought a few race horses and inadvertently set young Chris’ life on its course.
George Strait News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
NASHVILLE SKYLINE: CMA Entertainer of the Year Award Is a Horse RaceCMT.comBesides Chesney and Swift, the nominees are George Strait, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban. The latter will likely draw a huge vote for the sheer dynamism of …
OTB Sports (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I’m astonished that there was no testing program in place already. Race horses are tested extensively. From AP- The U.S. Polo Association has quietly moved to start randomly drug testing horses, months after 21 prized ponies dropped dead in South Florida. The horses, belonging to a Venezuelan team, died in April as they stepped off trailers before [...]
Market Power (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The economics of horse racing looks a lot like the economics of other sports. There are the usual costs of ownership. There is prize money. There is the focus on competitive balance. There is revenue sharing. This LA Times article...
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Last night, I had the opportunity to chat up a Fox media person, who was actually quite charming. What struck me is that despite the charm, was how little he cared about what was happening. What I sense overall is the mainstream media's lack of caring about the stories being covered. We have already proved the huge bias in mainstream reporting, this lack of caring shows an even deeper structural problem....
The realm of threalm (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
. It's Melbourne Cup day in Australia: a day full of strained horse race metaphors and lots of forced jollity, and much illusion, about chance; hence the superficial inspiration for my segue to: The interesting, refreshing and credible view now developing that "horse race" style politics is currently (if temporarily) on the outer in the big democratic conversation in the US. The argument...
on 205th magazine (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Now I know why people blow thousands of dollars on race horses even though the odds of ever making a profit is slim to none for most of them: The women! Don’t believe me? Well then how do you explain all the hot celebrity babes that were in attendance at last week’s Breeders’ Cup? I [...] View this full post including all the pics at Guyism.com.
GeoffShackelford.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
When Zenyatta proved Saturday that she's the Tiger Woods of race horses, it was only natural to expect Tiger to stop toying with the elite HSBC Champions field and put them away with a trademark rise-to-the-occasion finish.
Newcastle United Mad (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Posh boss Darren Ferguson tipped the Toon to win the Championship ... but the bookies give the Baggies the edge at 13/5 and us at 5/2.
TEN Gossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jensen Ackles and Danneel Harris were spotted at the 26th Annual Breeder’s Cup Horse Race in California. It’s always nice to see pictures of the two of them together. I can’t wait to catch up with my Supernatural watching because this season is awesome. I heard last weeks episode, Changing Channels, was a good one. [...]
OTB Sports (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Was Furthest Land’s victory today one of horse racing’s greatest upsets? From Racing Form- Furthest Land, who could not win under a $35,000 claiming tag at Belmont Park one year ago, outfinished fellow long shot Ready’s Echo by three-quarters of a length to upset Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita. Furthest Land finished [...]
Red State (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Jay Cost (H/T: @ MelissaTweets ) has written an article on the Democratic party that is impossible to excerpt properly: How To Divide a Party, In Three Easy Steps! So, you’ve decided to become the leader of a big political party. Only one problem: it’s too big! What to do? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Here at the Horse Race Blog, we’ve developed a three-step...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
These kinds of stories happen only in the movies. Hollywood can create the drama, the unbelievable ending, even the tears.Zenyatta doesn't need Hollywood. She produces her own show. She is, as her jockey Mike Smith, says, "a race horse sent from heaven."On a day that racing will cherish for a long time, a historic moment that may sustain, even boost, a struggling industry for years...
