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The November Sale currently holds three world records for horses offered at public auction: top-priced broodmare, Broodmare of the Year Better Than Honour, who sold for $14,000,000 in 2008; [8] top-priced broodmare prospect, champion Havre de Grace, who sold for $10,000,000 in 2012; [9] [10] and top-priced juvenile filly, Breeders' Cup Juvenile ...
Sale of bird seed in 2005–2008 [ edit ] On January 27, 2012, Scotts Miracle-Gro pled guilty in federal court and paid $4.5 million in fines for selling 73 million units of bird seed between November 2005 to March 2008 that was coated with pesticide known to be deadly to birds and fish.
The 2019 Sale saw a record single sale of $8.2 million for a filly offspring of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. [1] November - Breeding Stock; This sale primarily features broodmares and weanlings, with some stallions, horses in training and yearlings also offered.
A stock contractor provides animals for roughstock and roping events at rodeos. A stock contractor is an individual or business that provides animals for rodeo competition. . Stock contractors supply rough stock - bucking horses for saddle bronc and bareback bronc riding (called buck jumpers in Australia) and bucking bulls for bull riding, plus steers for steer wrestling and team roping, plus ...
Spendthrift Farm is a thoroughbred race horse breeding farm and burial site in Lexington, Kentucky, currently owned by Eric & Tammy Gustavson. [1] It was founded by Leslie Combs II and named for the great stallion Spendthrift, who was owned by Combs' ancestor, Daniel Swigert of Elmendorf Farm.
References A ace Slang for the drug acepromazine or acetyl promazine (trade names Atravet or Acezine), which is a sedative : 3 commonly used on horses during veterinary treatment, but also illegal in the show ring. Also abbreviated ACP. action The way a horse elevates its legs, knees, hock, and feet. : 3 Also includes how the horse uses its shoulder, humerus, elbow, and stifle; most often used ...
Hanover Shoe Stables fell under the management of Lawrence Sheppard, Sheppard's son, in 1922 and in 1926, he purchased a 69 horse dispersal from the estate of A.B. Coxe for $150,000. According to The Kentucky Harness Horse , written by Standardbred historian Ken McCarr, it was "the start of one of the largest and most prominent harness horse ...
Reins are the means by which a horse rider or driver communicates directional commands to the horse's head. Pulling on the reins can be used to steer or stop the horse. The sides of a horse's mouth are sensitive, so pulling on the reins pulls the bit, which then pulls the horse's head from side to side, which is how the horse is controlled.