Sentences with phrase «day racing horses»

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A client pays me a certain amount of money per day to take care of their horse, and the trainer gets a 10 % cut if the horse wins a race.

Next day, as the Ferris wheel was being taken apart and the race horses were being loaded into vans and the entertainers were packing up their belongings and driving away in their trailers, Charlotte died.

Perfect for sipping on a warm day or for watching the horse races!

For about a decade, Halliday - Sharp juggled motor racing and three - day eventing, but just this year she decided to make training and competing her horses the priority.

«I'm sure the horse is going to break a leg in the trailer, or come down with flu the day before, or fall off a cliff during the race.»

In the «good old days» before the turn of the century, Arsenal had always been part of a two horse race, with either Man United or Liverpool.

Saturday hasn't been a good day for favorites to start with Lady Aurelia finishing a distant 10th out of 12 horses in the race of 3 - year - olds.

The second ever running of the Vision Varsity horse race will take part on Saturday the 10th of October on Dubai future champions day at Newmarket.

HORSE RACING — BILL SHOEMAKER, hopping from coast to coast, won three stakes races in three days and then, after a day off, took the Santa Anita Handicap.

Hooked on horses from the day her stepfather Charles Castrenze, a chef at the Holiday Inn in Aberdeen, Md., first took her to the track as a toddler, she began working weekends at Laurel Race Course during her senior year in high school.

HORSE RACING — EASY GOER ($ 2.60), ridden by Pat Day, charged past four horses in the final quarter mile to win the Woodward Handicap by two lengths over Its Acedemic.

Orb won his first race two days after Thanksgiving at Aqueduct and then won his first race of 2013 in a 11 / 8 - mile stake on Jan. 13 at Florida's Gulfstream Park, winter home for some of McGaughey's horses.

Gallant Man, toting 132 pounds for first time, handily completed two - race assault on Hollywood Park, won $ 107,600 Sunset Handicap four lengths over Eddie Schmidt, the same horse he beat 10 days earlier in $ 162,100 Gold Cup.

HORSE RACING — On a day of major prep races for the May 2 Kentucky Derby, upset victories were the rule.

When the stewards receive all the tags representing specimens from the horses tested on any racing day, they put the whole batch in a small brown envelope which is then sealed, stamped across the fold in three places with red wax and locked up, generally overnight.

Adjacent to these and protected by a high wire fence is a blue - and - white trailer, the property of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, in which postrace tests are conducted to determine whether illegal drugs are present in the saliva or urine of winners and other selected horses that have raced each day.

Only then does anyone discover which horse carried traces of an illegal drug on the previous race day.

On May 4th — the day of the 94th Derby — the stewards at Churchill Downs, for reasons known only to themselves, ordered tests on only 10 horses: the winner of each of the nine races on the card, plus one additional horse from the Derby field drawn by lot.

«I never heard of a horse retaining any trace of this for more than 72 hours,» says Dr. Harthill, «and, just to make sure, I never administer it within four days of a race.

As the old song put it, what a difference a day made — even in horse racing.

Tipperary still breeds great jump horses — in the 198 races held at Cheltenham from 1981 through» 91, Ireland bred 119 of the winners — but current economic circumstances mean that these days the best young Irish prospects tend to be bought up and shipped to England.

A couple of days before last weekend's big horse race, a sports announcer on WCBS in New York did something he probably should not have.

America's biggest equine event, The National Horse Show, which opens its annual eight - day stand next week (Nov. 2 - 9) in Madison Square Garden, had no more class than a six - day bike race when it was first held in a car barn in 1883.

Three days beforethe race Billy Turner, the trainer of 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew, reflected on seeing horses come up short at the Belmont in their bid to winracing's jewel.

Race day broughta familiar tableau: a huge crowd (94,476, the fourth - largest in Belmonthistory), a crescendo of noise as the horses were loaded into the starting gateand a palpable sense of hunger.

The Cheltenham Festival is one of the most popular race meetings in the whole of the year, and the bookmakers will be quaking in their boots with Willie Mullins bringing over a multitude of top quality horses for the four day event.

THE QUALITY OF REMEMBRANCE Sirs: Saturday, May 5 was indeed A Day to Remember (SI, May 14), but less for the horse race in Kentucky than for the foot race in Los Angeles.

If you are looking at the most popular betting tips during the day then the likelihood is that they will be largely made up of betting tips for horse racing.

Use our Compare Odds tool to find the best day of the race and ante-post prices on major UK and European horse racing events such as the Grand National, Royal Ascot, Cheltenham and Prix De L'Arc De Triomphe, not to mention the hundreds of minor meetings taking place every month.

Michael Owen is a horse enthusiast; he even owns race horses and has even bred a few of his own but unfortunately for the Englishman, Owen could never learn to ride or race in competitions during his playing days but since he retired over 3 years ago, the Ballon d'Or winner has enough time to focus on training and learn the ins and outs of horses and horse racing.

Shop owners in Arlington Heights are waiting to see how much difference a day makes when the Arlington Million, Illinois» premier thoroughbred horse race, is held this Saturday instead of on a Sunday as in previous years.

The gubernatorial horse race polls are starting to remind me of that old joke about the weather: Just wait a day, and they'll change.

Friday 11th November, the spa town's famous racecourse offers more than just the spectacle of horses, with a festival of the countryside — the annual Cheltenham Countryside Race Day which heralds the start of three days racing at Cheltenham from the 11 - 13 November.

«On the day of the most famous race in the country, New York has to get back on the horse.

As the world waits to hear where horse racing's biggest star will make his next start, the New York Racing Association announces a change for its biggest day of the Saratoga Sracing's biggest star will make his next start, the New York Racing Association announces a change for its biggest day of the Saratoga SRacing Association announces a change for its biggest day of the Saratoga Season.

UPDATE: Red Horse informs me it did some mailers for labor unions that supported Weprin and a small canvass for the last two days of the NY - 9 race, so it did have some skin in the game here.

Buried in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 21 - day budget amendments released publicly this morning is a $ 10 fee for horse owners who compete in NYRA - sanctioned races.

Meanwhile, Saturday presents an golden opportunity for NYS, Nassau County and horse racing to reap millions in one day.

At 1:30 p.m., state Agriculture and Markets Commissioner Richard Ball attends New York Showcase Day at the historic Saratoga Racecourse to celebrate the state's thoroughbred horse racing industry and its significant benefits to New York agriculture, 267 Union Ave., Saratoga Springs.

Of the 237 days when thoroughbred horses compete on the New York Racing Association's calendar, the 40 days at Saratoga Race Course are among its best attended and most wagered on.

Eleven horses have died so far at Saratoga Race Course in just over two weeks since opening day.

That's why polls are putting us ahead of Labour, and that'll crystallise in the next few days into a two - horse race.»

The point was made in a horse race ad from the independent No campaign and in a child's sport day video from the Tory Party's No campaign.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about Governor Cuomo's aide who was shot prior to the West Indian Day Parade and the last day of horse racing at Saratoga Race CourDay Parade and the last day of horse racing at Saratoga Race Courday of horse racing at Saratoga Race Course.

WAMC's David Guistina chats with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a break in a double homicide case in Troy and the last day of horse meets for the 2014 season at Saratoga Race Course.

One of the world's most prestigious horse races, the Derby at Epsom, is only days away.

[Horse race announcer sounds] And a day at the track is much more exciting now than it was back then.

The horse's task in this race is roughly equivalent to an 80 - kilogram runner doing four hilly marathons in a half day, with a 20 kg child strapped to their back.

If you aren't familiar, this is the annual horse racing season (see more about it here), which for many people exists to give an excuse to dress up a little, don a nice hat and celebrate the day.

I haven't been to Belmont since I posted this (omg, these photos), so I'm really excited — I love horse racing... especially when there's betting and a nice day out involved!