The LPGA, limited in its sponsorship opportunities on the mainland and faced with a growing influx of foreign players, has spread its schedule out to several international stops and solicited major financial backing from Asian businesses. According to Wie's coach, David Leadbetter, the young phenom has elected to shift her career track more toward women's events. It was welcome news for the women's circuit, which continues to fall short in capturing the attention of the American sporting...

Among the celebrities spotted around Churchill Downs were actresses Cybill Shepherd, Jennifer Tilly and Jenny McCarthy, TV personalities Star Jones and Ross Mathews, singers Gene Simmons of Kiss and Kid Rock, along with Larry Birkhead, famous for his involvement with Anna Nicole Smith. Among the celebrities spotted around Churchill Downs were actresses Cybill Shepherd, Jennifer Tilly and Jenny McCarthy, TV personalities Star Jones and Ross Mathews, singers Gene Simmons of Kiss and Kid...

Sponsorships and volunteering can be arranged online through the Equine Voices Web site, or by calling or writing the phone number and addresses below. Box 1685, Green Valley, AZ 85622; e-mail info@equinevoices.org or go online to www.equinevoices.org To learn more To find out more about the pregnant-mare urine industry, go online to: The Humane Society of the United States, www.hsus.org, and enter Premarin in the search box in the upper left corner of the home page. Box 1685, Green...

Performances include bull riding, team roping, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, bareback riding and women's barrel racing. View more than 200 visual, performing and humanities events that feature local and international artists. Shine your Chevy, detail your deuce coupe and celebrate America's love affair with cars and rock & roll. The air show features the Canadian Forces "Snowbirds," aerobatic performers, military and civil flight demonstrations and aircraft...

Sure, there are some vague generalities, reasons for success that could apply to any rodeo team: lots of practice, good facilities, team support. When it comes right down to it, UW's women get the job done -- in part because coach George Howard recruits the best competitors he can find, in part because the UW system, and the college rodeo system, in general, gives all athletes the chance to prove their abilities. Rodeo: UW women attract top young talent. When it comes right down to it,...

Horse racing Horse racing. Godolphin by ready or not 06 May 2007 I've not posted on here since the changes have been made but would just like the boards opinions on the shambles that have become the godolphin team 300 horses and they cannot find a horse worthy enough to put in a respectable show in either of the first two classics. Godolphin by ready or not 06 May 2007 I've not posted on here since the changes have been made but would just like the boards opinions on the shambles that have...

A North Dakota company announced today that its horse feed supplement was used in efforts to rehabilitate the late Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro and that the company will donate a portion of all Internet sales of the product to equine research. The injury was complicated when Barbaro developed laminitis, an extremely painful inflammation of the tissue that holds the animal s leg bone to its hoof. ND company plans donations to equine research. SweetPro, based in Walhalla, N. The company...

The starting line Most saddlebreds, which unlike thoroughbreds are mostly used for show, can trace their ancestry to one or both of two prolific stallions: Harrison Chief or Gaines Denmark, both of which came from families descending from Messenger, a thoroughbred who prolifically bred more than 120 mares a year. The starting line Most saddlebreds, which unlike thoroughbreds are mostly used for show, can trace their ancestry to one or both of two prolific stallions: Harrison Chief or...