Much was made of the brilliant 4 year old filly Zenyatta today as she won the Ladies’ Classic at the Breeders Cup, bringing her undefeated streak to 9 career starts. The ESPN commentators were falling all over themselves, with comments like, “The Patriots couldn’t do it, Big Brown couldn’t do it, but Zenyatta did!”
Aren’t we [...]
Posts Tagged ‘horse racing’
dewey who?
Posted in The Racing Life, tagged harness racing, horse racing, racehorses on October 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
in the clear light of day
Posted in Equine Art & Fiction, Horse People, Teaching & Learning, The Racing Life, tagged equestrian competition, horse, horse racing, horse sports, horses, racehorses, racetrack on March 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Of course the largest font on my author tag cloud in the horse fiction library is Dick Francis, who, as you most likely already know, was a champion steeplechase (or, more properly, National Hunt) jockey before he became an incredibly prolific writer. Having read all of his novels, I thought I had some idea as [...]
wow, they’re on it!
Posted in Health of Horse & Rider, The Racing Life, tagged equestrian competition, equine, horse, horse racing, horse sports, horses, racehorses, racetrack, The Racing Life on March 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I love TheHorse.com, if only because it gives me such good blogging fodder:
California Adopts Steroid Testing Levels
by: Debbie Arrington February 29 2008, Article # 11422
The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) took a major step towards banning supplemental anabolic steroids with the adoption of testing levels [...]
the horse chiropractor
Posted in Health of Horse & Rider, The Racing Life, tagged acupuncture, chiropractic, chiropractor, horse, horse racing, horses, photonic laser, racehorses, racetrack on March 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday evening I spent at the track, holding racehorses for our chiropractor, Dr. Troy Stevens. Whoever mentioned that tapping on the forehead is a good distraction for farrier work – you were right. Although the horses like our chiropractor, we wouldn’t be calling him if they weren’t in pain, so they are generally [...]
the racing life
Posted in The Racing Life, tagged harness racing, horse racing, horses, racetrack on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am sitting in a wood shack, perhaps 6′x4′ and barely large enough for two people to stand in if they happen to be very good friends, with a portable heater running to chase away the wind that is finding its way between the cracks in the wood. There are three small windows: [...]
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