The great Lava Man preparing for his fourth of july BBQ at Hollywood Park
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The Old Nag
I’m unapologetic in my love of jockeys. For you, maybe the horse is the thing. The jockeys are weird – miniature, enigmatic humans in baggy knickers and candy colored silks. Scoffed at for their size, these humans are freaks of flexibility and endurance, shrewd tacticians with finely tuned internal clocks and almost spooky sensorial […]
“Philly Girl” with breathing device courtesy of @MikeMachowsky ! pic.twitter.com/aW0PEVwhB6
Fivla and Vitamin, cardigan-sweater-wearing Shetland ponies, are the official ambassadors of VisitScotland’s new campaign celebrating Year of Natural Scotland. via Gawker
Doe-eyed, dapple grey champion, Z Fortune, passed away this morning at Chino Valley Equine Hospital after a difficult battle with post colic surgery infection.
From The Old Nag I’m posting a letter to the New York Times from Richard Shapiro, rather than my own, because it is so much better – and less snarky -than mine. from Paulick.com, Paulick Report Staff | 07.12.2012 | 8:34am SHAPIRO LETTER TO NY TIMES: O’NEILL PORTRAYAL ‘WRONG AND MISGUIDED’ The following letter was sent […]
from Bloodhorse.com “I’ll Have Another’s Treatment ‘Routine Care’ By Ron Mitchell and Eric Mitchell I’ll Have Another retirement ceremony. photo: Steve Heuertz Three veterinarians who reviewed the treatment regiment of I’ll Have Another between the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes found nothing out of the ordinary and took exception to characterizations in a July 11 New York Times […]