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The Horse Trust (formerly The Home of Rest for Horses until September 2006) is an equine charity in the United Kingdom, [1] based at Speen near Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. It was founded in 1886 and is the oldest equine charity in the world. It was set up to help the working horses in London. Upon the decline of the working horse in ...
Forego (April 30, 1970 – August 27, 1997) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that won eight Eclipse Awards including Horse of the Year, Champion Handicap Horse and Champion Sprinter. Background [ edit ]
Gainesway Farm is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding business in Lexington, Kentucky.It was originally called Greentree Farms.. The 1,500-acre (6 km 2) property has been home to stallions such as Youth and Exceller and numerous others who are buried on the property.
Two horses stuck deep in mud for hours in Connecticut were pulled out by more than a dozen rescuers Saturday, emerging messy and tired, but safe. A trio of horses were walking from a pasture to a ...
Claiborne Farm is a thoroughbred horse breeding operation near Paris, Kentucky. It was established in 1910 by Arthur B. Hancock , owner of Ellerslie Stud in Albemarle County , Virginia , and has been operated by members of his family ever since.
The organization started with one leased paddock and two horses, but it now owns 136 acres, Dreamchase Farm, with additional leased pasturage. It is the only Thoroughbred retirement facility in the United States that accepts stallions on a regular basis. Old Friends is currently home to over 150 retired Thoroughbred athletes. [1]
He was squeezed back at the break and settled near the back of the pack. Still in seventh place after three-quarters of a mile, he began to make up ground along the rail near the top of the stretch. Meanwhile, Early Voting tracked the early pace set by Armagnac and moved to the lead entering the stretch, pulling well clear with an eighth of a ...
In his last year of racing, when he was 10 years old, he won four of his nine starts against much younger horses. [1] As an entire Kingston still raced way past the age when intact horses are retired to stud. Many experts believe a stallion sours if he’s raced too long, but Kingston was as good a sire as he was a race horse.