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Halfway to Heaven (foaled 25 April 2005) is a retired Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and an active broodmare.After winning one minor race as a two-year-old in 2007, she emerged as one of the leading fillies in Europe the following year, recording Group One successes in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, Nassau Stakes and Sun Chariot Stakes.
Race horse trainers train horses for horse racing.This involves exercising, feeding, management and, in early years, to get them used to human contact. [1]Once a horse is old enough to be ridden, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready by designing exercise routines tailored for each horse and its needs [2] as well as determining which ...
Texas, California and Florida had the most horses, but the study also found a horse population of at least 20,000 animals in each of 45 of the 50 states. [7] Though other states have higher horse populations and more farms, the Equine industry in Kentucky led the nation in 2009 for total sales and the highest market value of "equine products." [4]
In 1965 Foinavon was up for sale again. He was bought for 2,000 guineas by John Kempton, who ran Chatham Stables, a small training yard in Compton, Berkshire, and had owners looking for a horse to run in the Grand National. His new owners were Cyril and Iris Watkins and Mac Bennelick, and he had a new stable companion in the form of a white ...
He went to the early lead and set sensible fractions. In the stretch, first Pappacap and then Call Me Midnight made strong moves. Epicenter held off Pappacap but was caught at the wire by Call Me Midnight, losing by a head. [10] Epicenter returned to racing on February 19 in the Risen Star Stakes. He went to the early lead and set a moderate ...
Watch It Now is a black stallion with a blaze face and a sock on his left front foot. He was foaled on March 13, 2003, and bred by Jack Littrell and Steve Roberts of Florence, Alabama . He was sired by the World Champion The Skywatch, and his grandsire was Pride's Generator , a three-time World Champion and noted sire.
Lava Man became the first horse since Triple Crown Winner Affirmed in 1979 to win the Santa Anita Handicap and Hollywood Gold Cup in the same year. [19] He also became the first horse to win the Whittingham and the Gold Cup in the same year since Exceller in 1978. [20] Lava Man earned his third straight Beyer Speed Figure of 108 in the race.
Eclipse Press is the book-publishing division of Blood-Horse Publications, an international publishing house for top Thoroughbred and general equine magazines, books, videos, CD-ROMs and annual references. Sheffield-based Eclipse tools, now part of Spear & Jackson, took their name and their Eclipse first... slogan in 1909 from the horse.