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POPSHorse fighting in China This is the first I've heard of this "sport". I think bull fighting, dog fighting and cock fighting in the western world are just as cruel.
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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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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 Big Brown Won't Be Racing At Four Iavarone refused to confirm reports that Big Brown's deal with Three Chimneys was worth $50 million. The record stud price was $60 million for Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus in 2000 with Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky. The next year, Three Chimneys brokered a $50-million deal for Point Given, winner of the 2001 Preakness, Belmont and Travers. In 2004, Smarty Jones ($39.4 million) also went to Three Chimneys after taking the Derby and Preakness.
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POPSOlympic Horses Arrive In Hong Kong Nearly 70 equine athletes in the Olympic Equestrian Events have landed in Hong Kong, stepping off their flights and being whisked by first-class transport to spacious and cool accommodations in Sha Tin. The cosmopolitan horses represent 18 nations, including Belgium, Finland, Mexico, Italy, Japan, Sweden, France, South Korea, Russia, Canada, and Germany. In all, around 220 horses competing for 42 nations are traveling on more than 50 airplanes to get to the Games in Hong Kong.
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POPS Better Than The Trotters? Not "I have no idea what half a dozen camels haring around Harold Park is going to look like - it's going to be classic," said the man responsible for the idea, Harold Park's food and beverage manager, Rob Vine.
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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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POPSThe Death of Shergar At his home, Jim Fitzgerald was dismayed when I broke the news about exactly how the horse he had cared for had died. The proud former groom still has framed photographs of Shergar in his hall and living room. "That's not a very nice thing to do," he said slowly, with typical Irish understatement, as he wiped a tear from the corner of his eye. "Shergar was a grand horse and he deserved better."
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POPSAPEC powers are in place Many Sydney residents are heading over the horizon. Horses are out as we have equine flu. Good place not to be. Even Bush is leaving early.
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