Why run a marathon when you can just ride a horse? The fine folks at The Onion recently covered the New York City marathon in true Onion fashion, with an article on victor Meb Keflezighi's "performance-enhancing horse." Per The Onion report, Keflezighi won the race aboard a 2- to 4-year-old chestnut Thoroughbred. Race officials investigated after reports of, "remarkable speed, unusual race-day height...
After weeks of news on a female track athlete's gender testing and associated scandal regarding officials' handling of the issue , it's timely to point out improved testing for racehorses is also uncovering a few surprises in the starting gates – including some fillies and mares reclassified as horses after hormone levels revealed that were carrying some extra anatomical baggage. Earlier...
I'm not drunk--the horse is. That's what a woman allegedly told police when she was given a disorderly conduct ticket for riding a horse down the centerline of a highway in Six Mile, S.C., while intoxicated. A pedestrian alerted an officer on Saturday that the woman, Tracy Nadine Ellenburg, was riding down Main Street, television station WYFF reported. An officer found the horse tied to a bench...
Do you ever watch "How It's Made"? The Science/Discovery channel show takes viewers behind the scenes at various factories and workshops to demonstrate the elaborate, often automated, processes raw material goes through to become crayons, buttons, aluminum foil, anatomical models, and more. But automation isn't limited to the factory--it's also making inroads into horse training...
Zenyatta rocks . Last year's Eclipse Award winner in the category of older female is undefeated in nine starts. Now five years old, her trainer John Shirreffs was planning to kick off this year's campaign in the Louisville Distaff. But, with rain forecast, they opted to scratch instead. "She is just starting off this year, and this is a grade II, it's not the Breeders' Cup,"...
