Viewers of Countdown were asked last year to help name a two-year-old horse in whom Whiteley had acquired an interest.
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The club even has a nonhuman member -- Oopsie, a 10-year-old horse.
Now, 15 years since the company's last 3-D system vanished from stores, Nintendo's next bet is on an old horse that has never made it far out of the stable.
He lightly stroked the hood, then stroked it again, as if it were not a car but an old horse, tied to a fence and given a friendly pat to indicate that the wait would not be long.
After several hours of this, learning the difference between a four-day-old horse and a cow carcass - the colour, smell, and muscle tone - the kind lady who showed us round, led us to a warm room where we could remove our hair nets and overalls and take comfort in a bowl of vegetable soup.
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This week, I got a phone call from a trainer at a low-level track with an 11-year-old ungelded horse in her barn.
But, as I said, you know, Barbaro falls more into the category of the old style horse, in terms of his breeding.
That afternoon, Mr. Davis played a track from a New Age album he's working on in his studio and checked on a five-month-old Warlander horse, born on the property.
The horse, four-year-old Lucas is of the Breton draft horse breed and had been due to be sold for meat last September when it was rescued by its owner, Carriage Tours, of Bury St Edmunds.
Bodemeister stood a chance to make history: He had not raced as a two-year-old and the last horse to win the Kentucky Derby without those juvenile races was Apollo in 1882.
The prime candidate for slaughter, say buyers, is a 10-12-year-old well-muscled quarter horse.
My horse, Nell, is a 16-year-old, 16-hand strawberry roan--a draft horse, if you will.
The 37-year-old amateur fractured two vertebrae when his horse fell in a race at the festival last month.
Even in India he is better known for his family's decades-old ties to the nation's horse racing circuit.
Finally, the rejected draft was the constitutional incarnation of the old joke about a camel being a horse designed by a committee.
The 43-year-old was also viewed as a dark horse to succeed Steve McClaren as England national coach before the appointment of Fabio Capello.
We never think to ask why a nineteen-year-old boy is so obsessed with a horse, or why the entire production is devoted to an animal, while ten million men are dying all around him.
But perhaps the most bizarre incident came at the start of this year, on the Feast of the Epiphany, when diplomats from the Spanish embassy, dressed as the Three Kings, went in horse-drawn carriages through Old Havana throwing out sweets for children.
The three-year-old had been seeking to be the first horse in 34 years to win the treble, having triumphed at the 138th Kentucky showpiece in May and then the Preakness Stakes.
It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
The home of cable channels Food Network, HGTV and Travel Channel is tucked between the old Brown Squirrel Furniture Store and the Dead Horse Lake Golf Course at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains in Knoxville, Tenn.
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Karl Folkers was 91 years old but he sounded strong and as healthy as a horse when this writer spoke to him just before he left to chair that 1997 conference!
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Old is axiomatically not good in the dog world, the horse world, baseball, the corporate world, the country, the universe, even the solar system.
"I participated in the race in good faith as it was to promote abilities across sport and I was totally unaware of any alleged excessive force being used on the horse, " said the 26-year-old.
The next day, two men loaded the trunks onto a horse-drawn cart and carried them away to the Old City.
He was carrying a beat-up and bulging old leather diary with a painted, hand-tooled relief of a horse on its cover.
The hype was Macy's balloon-sized for this horse, who was undefeated as a 2-year-old until the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, where he came in second.
The seven-year-old, trained by Paul Nicholls, was aiming to become the first horse since Badsworth Boy in the 1980s to win the race three years in a row.
The horse didn't run as a 2-year-old, so to keep the unbeaten streak Verrazano will have to buck a trend that's lasted more than a century: No horse since Apollo in 1882 has won without racing as a juvenile.
In 2009, Rachel Alexandra won the Preakness Stakes, Haskell Invitational Stakes, and Woodward Stakes, all against males, en route to being voted Horse of the Year, the first three-year-old filly in more than 50 years to win that honor.
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