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72Collecting Beswick Animals
If you mention collecting Beswick animals immediately spring to mind and Beswick has had a reputation for ceramic sculptures of animals that is second to none. Although there were a number of years when...
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68Racehorse - a poem
The body is taut and perfect as a Roman sculpture Your eyes are black The animal is born to run Dancing in the paddock, Anxious to be the thing you are Nostrils flared for breathing fire Your...
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74How NOT to take a horse's temperature!
“Well, if it isn’t Fenella Fisher! Put the kettle on and make us all some coffee. Christ knows, I can do with a cup.” Fenella looked at James Proctor, with his feet on a desk littered with papers,...
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71Great Racehorse: Ruffian, Queen of the Fillies.
I have not thought about Ruffian for years because it is a painful memory. I know some will say she was just a horse but as a young girl she was more than that. As I had become a racehorse fan at a young age...
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68The Clock Is Ticking
It was midnight. The clock was ticking loud, sounding like the thumping heartbeat of a racehorse. Had that infernal clock been chasing after something? Strange, I thought, very strange. A shiver slipped its...
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77Great Racehorse: Secretariat.
As a young girl I fell in love with horses but what little girl doesn’t. In 1973 I had plopped myself down in front of the TV to watch the Kentucky Derby. When the horses were brought out of the paddock...
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72Epsom Derby - How I Won On Fleur de Lys!
We can all dream! We all want to achieve. As youngsters we believe we can do anything. Even move mountains. When I was a teenager, many moons ago, I was no different to anybody else. Well, one of my dreams...
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59Horse Racing
Barrel horse racing has been around for several years, a game that aims to show the event rate. The race is pretty simple. It is played on an arena with three barrels arranged in an isosceles triangle...
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62UK Horse Racing - Newmarket Racecourse
Newmarket is where the British Jockey Club was based, and remained the headquarters of numerous national and global racing organisations until a few years ago when the British Horse Racing Board took over the...
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66Top 25 horse facts from history, sport, science and TV
Around 75 million horses are alive in the world today Mature horses will kick both colts and fillies out of the herd when they reach sexual maturity, helping to prevent inbreeding. Horses breathe through...
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