For too long, those horses depended, like Blanche DuBois, on the kindness of strangers: strangers to bail them out of kill pens, strangers to write checks to organizations like the Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, Old Friends, CANTER, and ReRun, strangers to find an extra stall on their farms to take in a horse that nobody wants any more.
He said Dutch authorities visited Nemijtek's facilities, from which Draap shipped between 40 and 100 metric tons of horse meat a month, to take samples of the horse meat.
With an on-site equestrian center, horse-lovers can take a lesson in the school or go for a gallop around the estate.
It used to take place in a muddy open field next to a horse-trading market in a small village, until police moved it into the city this year to avoid tension between the two pursuits.
Now back in the saddle, Guy is to take part in a charity event with a suitably equine theme: a horse ride from Ascot Racecourse to Windsor.
Then, in April, Bolger announced at his County Carlow stables that a campaign was set to take in both the Newmarket and the Irish 2000 Guineas (the horse was second in both), but not Epsom.
If Borel can capture a fourth Kentucky Derby, it will take him within one win of the all-time record by a jockey in America's most iconic horse race.
Is there a horse in the world who can push Frankel to the kind of performance that would see him take his rightful place at the top of the all-time list?
Standing near one of the mounted warriors, for example, we take in gold-trimmed expanses of small lacquered squares that cover the horse's flank, the grain of a decorated leather saddle pad, the sheen of a black metal mask, the ribbing of the helmet, the softness of the underarmor shirt, and the vibrant orange-and-gold striation of the samurai's cuirass and skirt.
WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence
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