Sentences with phrase «breeds racehorses»

For years he had a share in a stable that breeds racehorses in upstate New York (he now owns Delehanty Stock Farm outright).

After lunch we'd watch some racing on the television, I breed racehorses and I find it all very exciting.

While carefully bred racehorses had existed throughout Europe for centuries prior to this time, the breed as it is known today developed during the 17th century in England when English mares began to be bred to imported Arabian stallions.

The Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to: Dark Horse / United Kingdom (Director: Louise Osmond)-- Dark Horse is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a workingman's club who decide to take on the elite «sport of kings» and breed themselves a racehorse.

Not exact matches

You can take a stud here that stands for only $ 1,000, breed him to the same mare, raise the foal properly and get a better racehorse.»

You can breed a $ 10,000 stud to a good mare, and if you don't raise the foal right, you don't get a good racehorse.

Whereas the Arabian and Turkoman lines have long been known to have contributed to the iconic English Thoroughbred racehorse, other breeds like the Lipizzan and Franches - Montagnes weren't known to have these influences, Bailey says.

Yet although horse racing has grown into an international multibillion dollar industry, racehorse breeding still relies on the same tools as it has for the past 300 years: pedigree charts, and trial and error.

Determining laterality — or which side of the brain dominates the other — could change the way domestic animals are bred, raised, trained and used, including predicting which puppies will make the best service dogs, and which racehorses will race better on left - or right - curving tracks.

Because the breed was owned mostly by working class people, the Whippet was nicknamed «the poor man's racehorse» or «the poor man's greyhound».

With a reputation built on a continued effort to increase veterinary knowledge and thereby pioneering advances in reproduction, internal medicine and surgeries offered to its diverse equine clientele, the practice services international breeding operations, racehorses, sport horses and pleasure horses.

In 1992, in the second of his Young British Artists shows, Charles Saatchi devoted a whole gallery of his vast Boundary Road space to Wallinger's series of 1:1 scale portraits of thoroughbred racehorses, a work that alluded to breeding and genealogy as well as the wealth that flows through and from the business of racing.