Popular Breeds Of Horse News for 12/29/2008



Louisiana Tracks Benefit from Casinos (BloodHorse)
If there's a sure winner from casino gambling in Louisiana, it's the horse racing industry that once warned of its imminent demise from slot machines and table games...

Muck lives again as compost (Lexington Herald-Leader)
GEORGETOWN Tucked away on four acres at one of the world's most well-known Thoroughbred breeding farms is a site rarely noticed by the thousands of guests who visit Midway each year to gawk at top stallions and Kentucky Derby winners. Centrally located, but still out of sight, the four acres are one of two places at Three Chimneys Farm where two men work year-round to turn horse muck, a ...

Racing: Resilient horse inspires at age 2 (The Des Moines Register)
Odds, injury fail to stall Iowa equine Treasure..

HOMESTEAD: Rancher thrives in horse business (The San Angelo Standard-Times)
MERTZON - All Frank Ray Lindley ever wanted was to be a cowboy...

Plain sailing for Indian Ocean (Merimbula News Weekly)
GLOBAL racing and breeding giant Coolmore and trainer Tim Martin have the Golden Slipper in mind for unbeaten filly Indian Ocean after her all-the-way win in yesterday's Rosehill Gardens Events Handicap...

The flow of history :Feng shui found in houses of charismatic leaders, expert contends. (South Bend Tribune)
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Monica Hess thinks she knows why Mount Vernon and Monticello gave us charismatic leaders, why Calumet Farm, Lexington, Ky.'s historic horse breeding stable, went into decline, why the sun didn't always shine bright on My Old Kentucky Home: feng shui...

Free to a good home -- the horse of your choice (San Mateo County Times)
Horse market hits new lows; more animals than ever shipped out of U.S. for slaughter. Slideshow: Horse market crash..

The $600 mare and her $100,000 foal (Collie Mail)
Viewed's win in the Melbourne Cup had its annual reverberations across the thoroughbred industry, not least for a mare named Decency, now found at Woodwinds Farm in the mountains behind the Gold Coast, having been rescued two days before she was to be slaughtered in a dogger's yard in Brisbane...

Bird's breeding grounds protected in Ozarks (Park Hills Daily Journal)
ST. LOUIS (AP) EUR” Floaters and hikers of the Current and Jacks Fork rivers in the Ozarks of southeast Missouri may be lucky enough to see a small, sky-blue bird called the cerulean warbler. It has the dubious distinction of being the fastest disappearing member of the warbler family...

Muskegon County Sheriff's Posse members riding into history down Pennsylvania Avenue (The Muskegon Chronicle)
By Lisa Medendorp | Members of the Muskegon County Sheriff's Mounted Posse, including 22-year-old bay quarter horse Billy, will become part of American history next month when they ride in the Presidential Inaugural Parade on Jan. 20. (Chronicle photo/CoCo Walters) Read the story..



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