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88Thoroughbred Racing and Unwanted Horses Rescue
Is the horse racing industry doing enough to help solve the growing problem of unwanted horses? Not only many Thoroughbreds suffer at the end of their lives. All breeds are under duress.
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86Downs After Dark A Big Hit At Churchill Downs
Downs After Dark is a promotional program started by Churchill Downs in 2009. The premise involves mixing a nightclub type atmosphere with horse racing, which so many people in Louisville, Kentucky love. As its popularity increases, Churchill Downs...
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76What Does Triple Crown Mean In Horse Racing?
The Triple Crown of horse racing most often refers to the American running of a series of three races for three-year-olds that determine champions. However, many countries hold a Triple Crown and have internatioal rankings and champions of the racehorse track. Fillies have an opportunity to win a female Triple Crown series, but in America fillies often have entered the male-dominated Triple Crown races.
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86The U.S. Triple Crown of Horse Racing
The American horse-loving public is hungry for another Triple Crown winner of horse racing. We haven’t had one in thirty-three years, since Affirmed won the title in 1978. On the first Saturday in May...
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81Women's Hats To Wear To the Kentucky Derby...Or Just Because
Are you a woman who loves hats? Here are some beautiful ones and a hilarious story about how the author evolved over the years into a hat lover.
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77Famous Horses in History - Fillies
The American Thoroughbred filly is bred to run. Fillies and mares have made their mark in racing history.
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77Secretariat Movie: Another film about a race horse, in a series of Hollywood horse racing movies. Go racehorse
Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.
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77Thunder Over Louisville: Largest Firework Show in the United States and Kick Off for the Kentucky Derby Festival
The hub contains information about the largest firework display in the United States. It explains what the event is, some interesting facts and some tips on what to do when you arrive to the event.
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78Movie Reviews: Secretariat
Secretariat was made in 2010 and was released on video in January of 2011. Directed by Randall Wallace, the Secretariat movie stars Diane Lane as the owner of the racehorse; Scott Glenn as the aged father; John Malkovich as the quirky trainer,...
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72Top 10 Jobs in Kentucky
Formerly Female-Dominated Kentucky Jobs will Grow Fastest Kentucky women have been working in jobs traditionally held by women, with secretaries at the top the list. However, the stat'e women have been working in other traditional roles as well,...
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