Sick horse at Calder affects Gulfstream schedule (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
Two races on Gulfstream Park’s racing card have been canceled because of a temporary quarantine of horses at nearby Calder Race Course. The first and sixth races on Sunday were removed from the program. Florida officials closed Calder’s barn area late Saturday because a horse was sick. Horses stabled at other facilities are not affected by the closure, but about one-third of the 118 entries…
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Horse that took spill during Rodeo euthanized (ABC 13 Houston)
Rodeo Houston’s veterinarian had to euthanize a horse that took a bad a fall Saturday
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Horse state’s first world champion (The Florence Times-Daily)
By Tom Smith, Senior Staff Writer Gunalena Chex was only a 9-month-old colt the first time Donny Young saw a photograph of him in a magazine. Young said he knew immediately there was something special about the horse.
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South Canaan horse breeder headed to World Equestrian Games in Kentucky with rare Paso Fino (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
SOUTH CANAAN – Tucked away on a rambling dirt road here, Nola Haupert-Keill has been raising and training a horse breed that long ago was mounted by Spanish conquistadors during the American conquest in the 14th and 15th centuries. Today the South Canaan
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‘To Hell on a Fast Horse’: Billy the Kid meets his match (Seattle Times)
“To Hell on a Fast Horse” by Mark Lee Gardner cuts through the legend to get to the truth of Billy the Kid, but the better story is that of Pat Garrett, the sheriff who brought him down.
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