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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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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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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 After 10 years of writing short stories and an unpublished novel under his pen name, Hill knows that the world is now viewing him through a different prism - as the older son of Stephen King.