Jamie Spencer had just won the 8th and last race of the flat racing season to tie with Seb Sanders in the closest ever battle for the jockeys championship. As jockey Eddie Ahern switched his whip to his left hand to prevent Omnicat going over to the rail the horse then altered course sharply to starboard, unshipped Ahern and bore down on the hapless Sanders. With a hundred yards to go Sanders was in front only for an extraordinary Godolphin-trained debutant called Omnicat to sweep ahead...

It is expected that the seven vacant positions with the 11-member RVL board will be finalised this week after an exhaustive and controversial selection process. The 27-strong rebel group, who included leading trainers Lee Freedman and David Hayes and Makybe Diva's owner Tony Santic, wrote a letter to Racing Minister Rob Hulls declaring that: "Racing revenues and returns to us, the industry participants at the proverbial 'coalface' since 2001, have done nothing but diminish in real terms....

Sheikh Mohammed, who entered the horse business in the 1970s, has long been acquiring broodmares overseas and has done so for the last decade in America, Ferguson said. The flurry of buying at the recent breeding-stock auctions was driven by the availability of attractive horses and a desire to complement stallion purchases like Derby winner Street Sense and runner-up Hard Spun. The 2001 purchase of Jonabell and the creation of a Darley stallion operation there have led to more recent...

The school district has only four full-time dairy farms, and those farmers' children have graduated. North, who wants to be a veterinarian, enjoyed spending time with a Ridgeland vet last summer for her FFA proficiency program. Scheil knows of no other high school ag programs or FFA chapters without students who live on farms. Scheil rotates offerings of backyard agriculture, equine science, landscaping and horticulture, wildlife ecology and more. Students also benefit from a stage and...

An emerging issue in the election must be whether the voters trust the same franchise to run all nine governments, something we have never seen in Australia, writes David Fint. Indonesia's orangutans were heard cheering loudly from the treetops yesterday when Australian Prime Minster John Howard announced that taxpayers would chip in half a million dollars to help ensure their continued existence. Please login to continue Your Email Password: Remember Me Forgot password? The equine...

Now why focus on Wade and Smith as a duo rather than solo acts?First, both will say that no one person has made this centennial a success but instead it's been a sweat-on-the-brow, smile-on-the-face effort of volunteers, corporate and individual sponsors, famous sons and daughters of the state, and others all across and some outside Oklahoma that has made the commemoration a mighty success. Shooter, victim part of supremacist group [1 hr ago] Now why focus on Wade and Smith as a duo rather...

The program includes a range of shots and a booster at the end of the month, which is enough to inoculate the horses for 12 months. There will be a requirement for more vaccines after the initial 2000 and the Government has requested 15,000 vaccines to be delivered over the course of a few months. She said in addition to the racing industry, horse breeders and those in the recreational and pleasure horse sector were concerned. In time, other non-racing industries will have access to these...

Skvarka has served on various statewide committees that deal specifically with equine and small-scale livestock operations and their impact on our environment and the Chesapeake Bay. The Sentinel Online : Shippensburg. The Sentinel Online : Shippensburg. She has a strong background in both the livestock and agronomic areas. Cooperative will provide nutrient management plans. She is also a technical service provider (TSP) with USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to write 590...