Sentences with phrase «of a racehorse»

He once bought a racehorse and called it A Real Work of Art, also producing a bronze sculpture of it; and he showed two paintings of racehorses in the Turner prize shortlist exhibition of 1995, the year he lost out to Damien Hirst.

Realizing that his dad could use a little help in finances, he asks for and takes a job with Del (Steve Buscemi), who owns and trains a handful of racehorses at a nearby ranch.

Drawings of racehorse names such as «Candy Ride» and «Hunger» are meticulously rendered in graphite on large expanses of white.

Prior to this Wallinger had made a lusciously detailed 1992 oil painting of a racehorse under the characteristically multi-meaning title Race, Class, Sex, and a self - portrait as Emily Davison, the suffragette who threw herself in front of the king's horse in 1913.

Over the past decade, the number of two - year - old - in - training sales has risen, Wagner notes, a symptom of racehorse investors» looking for a quick route to the winner's circle.

The captain's gambling led to the demise of the family, which kept a large stable of racehorses.

Kaat played for Tanner in Chicago, and they share a love of racehorses.

It seemed a classic case of racehorse mismanagement.

12 months to 2 years - Yes, they have a bladder the size of a racehorse.

But Murray's electoral comeback also «shows he has the stamina of a racehorse,» Ryan said.

At 9 a.m., a co-owner of racehorse California Chrome, Steve Coburn, jockey Victor Espinoza and NYRA President and CEO Christopher Kay ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange, as part of events leading up to the 146th Belmont Stakes horse race scheduled on Saturday; enter at security checkpoint, NYSE, Exchange Place and Broad Street, Manhattan.

Hundreds of racehorses are killed every year.

Alan Wilson, a biomechanicist at London's Royal Veterinary College, started out studying the locomotion of racehorses, greyhounds and jackrabbits at top speed.

However, increased commercialisation of racehorse breeding also occurred during this period and thus this rapid increase in speed may be due to genetic improvement.

«This knowledge could be applied in the future to improve the overall health, soundness and therefore welfare of the racehorse population.»

Elizabeth Banks plays Laura Bush in the movie W. and the wife of a racehorse owner in Seabiscuit.

Needing to sort his life out, he finds purpose in the purchase of a racehorse in partnership with his crooked step - brother Ray (Anthony LaPaglia).

She was a keen student of racehorse pedigrees.

In 2003, she moved on to work at the Parana Jockey Club where she did rehabilitation and behavior modification of racehorses for retirement.

The farmers finally turned to wine and fruit farming, and later introduced a number of racehorse stud farms.

This centre combines three attractions in one: the National Horseracing Museum, the Fred Packard Museum and Galleries of British Sporting Art, and a flagship yard for the Retraining of Racehorses charity.

In order to analyze the movement of racehorses, farm animals, and acrobats, Muybridge pioneered new and innovative ways to stop motion with photography.

Such regimes of dominance and subjugation are further explored in Henrot's new film Tuesday, which interweaves footage of racehorses being groomed before and after training with scenes of Brazilian Jiu - Jitsu fighters interlocked in combat.

In Arthur Conan Doyle's short story Silver Blaze, Sherlock Holmes solves the kidnapping of a racehorse by focusing on what didn't happen.

Tony's on - screen kills include Willie Overall, Fabian «Febby» Petrulio, Chucky Signore, Matthew Bevilaqua, Salvatore «Big Pussy» Bonpensiero, Ralph Cifaretto (whose head he bashes into the floor in a rage over the death of his racehorse, Pie - O - My), Tony Blundetto and Christopher Moltisanti (his own «nephew» and protege).

Under the terms of the dissolution, Hazel would remain in the couple's $ 800,000 house in Arcadia, Calif., while Johnny would become outright owner of a handful of racehorses they owned.

«He also will give Astorino a painting done by Tedisco's wife, Mary, of a racehorse named Jim Dandy, who in l930, defeated a Triple Crown - winning horse named Gallant Fox by eight lengths at the Travers Stakes in Saratoga.»

Ferraro estimates that close to 70 % of racehorses have, at some point in their careers, been «tapped,» as these steroidal injections are called on the backstretch.