Rags to Riches was sent to a veterinary clinic for a checkup, which included a full-body bone scan, and cleared to train again. The racing hall of fame is across the street from the track, and downtown has an array of equine book and souvenir shops. She had been pulled up in a workout July 22 when her exercise rider felt something was wrong. Daily Racing Form publisher Steven Crist wrote that the time, which bettered the previous record of 1:47, was so completely out of whack with the...

on a Tuesday, in the wilting scorch of a July heat wave, young Samuel Benavides found himself a new favorite flavor, right here on the side of the road. Benavides had just returned from Logan Pass, a saddle slung high amid Glacier's stunning limestone peaks, &#8220way, way bigger than our mountains in Virginia. If Samuel comes back, he says it won't be for the mountains or the lakes or the big blue sky. He bought his cone at Uncle Don's, where an off-center umbrella, stained blue and...

If you have any information to report on the horse community such as upcoming events, clinics, raffles or you've won an award, please contact Jill at 823-1114, e-mail jillbn@yahoo.com. It includes all types of events from halter, trail class, western pleasure, jumping, reining and more. Charles Brooks will give a talk on the Peruvians, followed by lunch, a demonstration and audience participation. The event will include speeches and modeling by the Queen Contenders, dinner and silent...

In the Western Ranch Day purse, the 10and final race of the day, Tomufta, an 8-year-old Texas bred, took the lead halfway through the 7-furlong test to claim the new blanket. Cut Bank's Northern Ford has also sponsored a feature today, as a field of seven thoroughbreds will vie over 5 furlongs and 80-yards in a starter's allowance, wht seventh race on the card. Old timers get their chance to shine in today's final race, as eight seven-year-olds and up will race 7 furlongs in the Prospector...

There will be three floating fixtures' down from four in 2007, which will be scheduled at short notice to cope with periods of huge demand for opportunities to run. Dundalk -Ireland's first all-weather racecourse at Dundalk Stadium has been allocated 25 fixtures in its first full year of operation, based on scheduling two runs of ten evenings in the Spring (from 29 February to 2 May) and Autumn (replicating the 2007 programme from 28 September to 7 December) Sport on Radio Sport on Radio....

But he said that before calm descends, it is possible that the Dow may drop by as much as 10 percent from its July 19 high -- the classic definition of a stock market correction. Market watchers blamed the carnage on the downturn in housing and concern over defaults in the subprime mortgage markets, as well as signs that financing is becoming scarcer for buyout deals. Much of the damage took place during the last half hour of trading as investors became fearful of holding onto risky...

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Want to know a lil' something spesh about Russell Brand? Be warned, it may be raunchy. But Russ has been rating his performance in the up-coming St Trinian's movie. He apparently told The Sun: "I had to do horse riding and surfing, which I was crap at - and a sex scene, which I was obviously superb at. Russ plays the part of Flash Harry, and the movie also stars the likes of Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Mischa Barton and Lily Cole.