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POPSNo Evidence Found Eight Belles Was Injured During Derby The Jockey Club has formed a panel to examine the issues, and its members participated in a conference call Wednesday. Stuart Janney, a thoroughbred owner and breeder who will chair the committee, said breeding practices, track surfaces and medication are among the subjects to be discussed. "We're going to use this committee as a bully pulpit to be persuasive on certain matters, and go to other people in the industry and say, 'This is how we feel, how are you going to help us?'" Janney said.
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POPSThe Kentucky Derby Tragedy Third, we should ban the racing of 2- and 3-year-olds so popular on the U.S. track. In Europe, horses are typically raced later, when their "growth plates" (leg bones) are fully formed and they are less prone to injury. Greedy Americans don't want to spend the money to keep the horse "hanging around" (to wit, not earning money) until they are 4 or 5 years old, and so we race them before their legs are strong enough to handle injury. Many horses are forced to live 23-7 in their stalls, except for the hour or so per day when they are exercised. The human equivalent would be tying someone to his or her bed for 23 hours per day, only letting them out to run for an hour. Wouldn't you go crazy under those circumstances? I hope Eight Belles's death serves as something more than a one-day news story. I hope her sacrifice causes every fan of horse racing to stop patronizing the sport or betting on the mounts until major reforms take place.
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POPS California Horse Owners Evacuation Strong Santa Ana winds and a landscape already parched by drought have combined to help nearly a dozen fires spread across Southern California since the weekend. Many horse owners have evacuated, applying the lessons learned after a string of similar fires ravaged the area in 2003 and left dozens of horses dead and hundreds abandoned.
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POPSJohn Henry - Famous Thoroughbred Dies I love to watch horse racing. I think horses are one of the most beautiful creatures on earth. Riding horses has always been a wonderful experience that I didn't get to do as often as I would have liked.
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POPS Horse flu: NSW to give $7.5m Ms Toft said she was alarmed at the DPI's lack of urgency over the outbreak on her property, where other mares and some older horses were sick."We haven't had much help from the DPI since the beginning," she said. "We reported our property to be infected now 14 days ago and we still, to this day, we haven't had a DPI inspector onto our property to look at the severity of the problem." She urged breeders to band together and voice their concerns to the Government. A DPI spokesman today said that biosecurity was everyone's responsibility, including horse owners and their vets. He said a DPI inspector would be unable to visit other properties for 24 hours after being on an infected site.
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POPSTax Write-offs you likely never thought of continued..."When someone is charged and goes to court one of the first to visit them in jail is the Canada Revenue Agency," Ms. Hamel says. But, as Mr. Golombek points out, if a judge orders a criminal to offer restitution to the person victimized, the amount paid back could be considered a deduction.
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POPSSecret of Horror Writer's Lineage Broken - Stephen King and Son, Joe Hill Mar 17, 7:31 PM (ET) By JERRY HARKAVY Joe Hill knew it was only a matter of time before one of the publishing industry's hottest little secrets became common knowledge. He just wished he could have kept it under wraps a bit longer. But when Hill's fantasy-tinged thriller, "Heart-Shaped Box," came out last month, it was inevitable that his thoroughbred blood lines as a writer of horror and the supernatural would be out there for all to see. After 10 years of writing short stories and an unpublished novel under his pen name, Hill knows that the world is now viewing him through a different prism - as the older son of Stephen King.
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