Sentences with phrase «thoroughbred breeding»

Although she was an English and Fine Arts double major in college, jobs at local veterinarians and a thoroughbred breeding farm peaked her interest in the field of veterinary medicine.

A mock tombstone symbolizing the death of NY's thoroughbred breeding industry sits in a hearing at the NYS Assembly earlier this year.

Separately, in the Upper Hunter Valley of NSW, owners Bill and Jenny Stearn are selling their 1667 - hectare Timor Creek property, used for commercial beef cattle and thoroughbred breeding.

A. V. is short for Any Variety, and basically means any pedigree / thoroughbred breed of dog.

Not exact matches

Perhaps thoroughbreds had been bred so much for speed, that none would ever again have sufficient durability or endurance.

In addition to its agriculture operations, Harris Farms is home to about 600 thoroughbred horses at any given time, making it one of the largest breeding and training operations in California.

Since 1968 our facility has been preparing thoroughbreds and other breeds for their racing careers in California and beyond.

In August 1969 Dinny Phipps was a 28 - year - old Yale graduate and financier who had also dived into the family business of thoroughbred racing and breeding, which had been established in 1926 by his and Janney's grandmother, Gladys Mills Phipps.

Joe McMahon, of McMahon Thoroughbreds of Saratoga, praised the state's racing facilities and horse - breeding programs.

And some board members bemoaned what they said is the poor reputation of U.S. - bred horses due to the use of substances like furosemide, a diuretic to help prevent bleeding in thoroughbreds during races.

Today, they form the patrilineal backbone of nearly every modern horse breed, including Thoroughbreds, the American Quarter horse, the South German draught horse, and the Appaloosa.

Using genetic analyses of more than 50 horse breeds, along with the pedigrees of three stallions that founded English Thoroughbreds, researchers traced the Y chromosomes of modern horses back hundreds of years.

It's a powerful example of John Cooper's dogma all crafted into a UK / German - bred thoroughbred machine.

American Appendix horses are often referred to as «the best of two breeds» because they're a combination of the strong build of a thoroughbred horse and the supremely determined nature of a quarter horse.

Thoroughbreds and Arabians tend to colic more than other breeds.

Excess Energy As might be expected, horses with high energy levels, such as thoroughbreds and warm - blood breeds, engage in stereotypies more than other breeds of horses.

Her grandparents bred and raced thoroughbreds all over New England.

My grandparents bred and raced thoroughbreds all over New England.

The predominance of the horses are Quarter Horses used for western performance (roping, reining, barrel racing, pleasure), some racing Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses, some hunter / jumper and dressage types, and the rest composed of a variety of other breeds and performance type 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.

It is characteristic, therefore, that he used a breeding term for the title: a «blood horse» is a thoroughbred, descended from the Arabian horses imported for racing in the eighteenth century.

The Kentucky Derby is held in Louisville, but Lexington is where the thoroughbred horses are bred, foaled, trained, bought, sold, raced and retired.

The treasures it offers its residents are diverse - ranging from the largest free ranging elk herd east of Montana, the nation's most productive coalfield, and the breeding of thoroughbred horses.

Consulted and advised consignors and buyers on viable solutions to the questions on values, training, breeding associated with thoroughbred racing.

While coal extraction is a significant share of the Kentucky economy, the state is also a major manufacturer of automobiles, has a thriving agriculture and cattle industry, and is known around the world for its horse breeding and thoroughbred racing.