Lethal Heat to run twice @ the Breeders? Trainer loses marbles!

California conditioner Barry Abrams claims he'll enter filly Lethal Heat in both the Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic and the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint. Cross entering a horse in the world of Thoroughbred horse...

Rachel Alexandra, the Great

" Rachel Alexandra, the Great Yesterday, in what is likely to be the final bow of her three year-old campaign. Out of this world filly Rachel Alexandra took on older horses for the first time in her already...

Turn $2.00 into $656K at New York's lovely Saratoga Race-Track

This afternoon at 4:09 p.m. race four on today's Saratoga card will go to post with a little something extra on the line. Thanks to a host of long-shots that paraded to the winners circle during the first...

Poor Tyler Baze... ...Breeders' Cup Challenge 17 down & 46 to go

Y2K (00') top apprentice jockey Tyler Baze who does his best ridding in Southern California would have been the center of attention at Del Mar Racetrack if it weren't for a pesky broken finger that will keep the...

Canadians Dominate Alabama, in New York?

On Saturday afternoon Veteran Woodbine Jockey Robert Landry shifted his tack from the comforts of home to Upstate New York's and more specifically Saratoga Race Course. Landry, who could have stood pat in...

Breeders' Cup Challenge: Tough luck weekend for trainer Pletcher

Last week thoroughbred trainer Todd Pletcher lead his charge Game Face to a victory in the Princess Rooney Stakes a Breeders" Cup "win & your in" challenge race at South Florida's Calder Race...

The Belmont Stakes : Ranting, Raving and Carrying On

A brief glance at the results of past Belmont Stakes reveals a telling secret. For at least the past twenty years the Belmont (the final jewel of the North American horses racing triple-crown) has been...

Dirt....it's what's for dinner?

As a boy I climbed trees, explored the local forest and played in the dirt and mud.  Although my mother always gave me grief about "bringing those dirty clothes in the house" maybe being a dirty little kid...

Opposition-controlled accountability body to dig up the dirt on Musharraf

"The influential Public Accounts Committee of the Pakistani parliament is now officially to be controlled by the opposition and headed by Nisar Ali, a close aide of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and is likely to start with gusto by digging up the dirt on former...

Canada Election Dirt: Dion Shows His Green Shift Hypocrisy

Opinion Barry Artiste Much like Environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki lambasting the Conservative Government over it's Environmental Policies. Environmentalist David Suzuki went on a Cross Country, town to town tour...

Thin line between mayhem and safety

"The Mississippi River rushes through a break in Indian Grave Drainage District levee north of Quincy, Ill., and south of Meyer, Ill., on June 18.""Well before record floods overwhelmed at least two dozen levees...

Portland area freerider Paul Meeuwsen paralyzed in dirt bike accident

Is not easy at all to become a professional and until you are not professional most of the times you are considered as "those crazy guys".Here is the sad part of one of this "dangerous" sports."25 year-old Paul...

Girls found dead near small Oklahoma town

There's not much you can say about a story like this..." WELEETKA, Okla. (AP) — The bodies of two girls were found shot to death in rural Oklahoma along a dirt road the best friends walked dozens of times to play and go to sleepovers.By Tuesday, investigators had no...

Mars Lander Finds Ice, Ice, Maybe

Paving the way for an Ice-Pirates-esque future:"Nasa's new robotic craft on Mars may be resting on a large patch of ice.The latest images sent to Earth reveal tantalising glimpses of what looks like frozen...

Two Harvard Grads work to bring change in Kenya's largest slum

"Nairobi's Kibera slum is home to as many as a million people, struggling to survive in a community of tin huts, dirt roads, and garbage. To make matters worse, ethnic tension periodically boils over, adding...

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