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Dutch Horses Trapped by North Sea Rescued
The attention of the Netherlands has been riveted for several days on the plight of a herd of about 100 horses trapped by the North Sea on an earthen mound in a wilderness area outside the town of...
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Bumper sticker sighted locally in Loudoun County, Virginia: My horse bucked off your honor student.
View ArticleThis Year’s Brokeback Mountain
Opening this week in New York fresh from Robert Redford’s Sundance Festival, this year’s answer to Brokeback Mountain takes the contemporary cinema’s defense of forbidden love one step further. New...
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Last Manhattan Riding Stable Closed Last Sunday
Reuters (April 28): Yet another unique New York institution is set to disappear when the last riding stable in Manhattan closes its doors during the weekend. Claremont Riding Academy, said to be the...
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Inner-City Equestrianism Endangered by Development
The Wall Street Journal reports a heart-warming story of the proverbial blade of grass succeeding in growing up right through the urban asphalt of a Philadelphia combat zone neighborhood. Naturally,...
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Light Blogging This Weekend
If we are not rained out, I’m going to be working all day on Saturday and Sunday at the Blue Ridge Hunt Point-to-Point and Hunter Pace Races. link
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The Winner
Melanie Williams, winner of the Sheila Baldwin Burke Memorial, looked happy yesterday.She rode to victory on Flying Horse Farm’s Analyze, whose trainer was Jazz Napravnik. Racing was temporarily...
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2008 Olympics Equestrian Events US TV Schedule
Date: Program–Time (EST) on Channel Aug. 9: 3-Day: Dressage–2:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. on USA Aug. 11: 3-Day: Cross- Country–6:00pm-8:00pm OXYGEN Aug. 12: 3-Day: Stadium Team Gold Medal Final–6:00 p.m.-8:00...
View ArticleHorses’ Teeth and the Indo-European Homeland
Andrew Lawler describes an interesting approach to linguistic archaeology. Measuring teeth from dead horses in upstate New York seems an unlikely way to get at the truth behind some of the most...
View ArticleHorse Culture Dying in Southern California
Bad news from the LA Times: A flurry of recent stable closures has generated talk where equestrians gather about whether the Southern California horse culture can survive the sprawl of suburbia and...
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The Tragedy at Palm Beach
Workers raises tarps to spare spectators the sight of fallen horses at Palm Beach International Polo Club On April 19, 21 polo ponies recently arrived at the Palm Beach International Polo Club to...
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2009 Blue Ridge Fall Races
Roddy MacKenzie leads at the moment on Triton Light in the Banbury Cross and Foxboro Farms Maiden Hurdle, but Jacob Roberts (3rd from the right) on Maximize went on to win Karen and I were working...
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2010 Maryland Hunt Cup
Photo by Brendan Cavanaugh Weather turned this year’s steeplechase season upside down. The Maryland Hunt Cup was last weekend, and our own Blue Ridge Hunt races, normally second after Casanova’s, were...
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Horses Coming Back to Central Park
Riding to the Park from the old Claremont Stables Before the Claremont Riding Academy closed in 2007, you mounted your horse at the stables located between Amsterdam & Columbus on West 89th...
View ArticleMemorial Planned For US Mounted Special Forces
A memorial to mounted US troops who accompanied Northern Alliance forces in the conquest of Afghanistan, providing direction and support to fighters allied with the US in avenging the 9/11 attacks,...
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Cabinet Minister & Wife Competed in World’s Most Grueling Horse Race
Owen and Rose Paterson riding in the Mongol Derby Alright, we have to admit it: the Brits really do have some politicians superior to ours. Conservative cabinet minister Owen Paterson was keen enough...
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Explaining the Horse
Nicole Cliffe does a great job of explaining the human-equine relationship and why it has certain fundamental and basic problems. If you haven’t spent a lot of time around horses, you may have the...
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