For Central Park Carriage Horse, Death Arrives Inelegantly
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Juliet the carriage horse held forth for about two decades on the south end of Central Park. She died Friday morning after collapsing in the park the night before.
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Accustomed to the big tracks at Laurel Park, Pimlico, Colonial Downs and Delaware, not every trainer and jockey looks forward to saddling a horse for "bullring" racing in Timonium.
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Thoroughbred escaped from his paddock and may have joined a herd of wild horses
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The veterinarian who treated Barbaro for eight months before the Kentucky Derby winner was euthanized Monday said the horse was for the first time living in pain since the accident that ended his racing career.
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Tusker, a towering 50-year-old bull elephant who had become a favorite for safari camp visitors, was shot dead after New Year's party-goers provoked the animal into trampling several cars, conservationists said Monday.
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The horses that pull tourists on leisurely carriage rides through Central Park are working without enough water, shade or oversight from authorities, a city report says.
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An underground steam pipe explosion tore through a Manhattan street near Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday, swallowing a tow truck and killing one person as hundreds of others ran for cover amid a towering geyser of steam and flying rubble. New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said the explosion was not terrorism.
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An accident involving a gyrating ride at an amusement park north of New York City left a young woman dead Friday night, police said.
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Nine years ago, I had a thoroughbred mare who came down with colic in the night, and was too far gone to save by the time she was found at 6 a.m. After she was euthanized, I remember staring at her body, which was stretched out in the grass, running my hands over her. Her coat was shining. Her haunch was rounded and firm. Her feet and legs were perfect. Only that one thing had been wrong, that twist in her gut, but it was enough, and it killed her. So it is with all horses....
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Topsy the elephant is a killer and now she must pay the ultimate price. Enter Thomas Edison, a man who knows an opportunity when he sees one.
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In the town where liberty was born, a perfect record, it seemed, was about to die.
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Â· 31 animals found dead in field  Â· Charities describe scene of unprecedented cruelty
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An African elephant, which  collapsed and died at the Los Angeles Zoo this week, suffered a  heart attack, officials said on Wednesday, and animal rights  activists said the death underscored the risks of confining the  large mammals in urban zoos.
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.  -- Racetrack officials have picked a new synthetic racing surface for Arlington Park, where at least 21 thoroughbred horses were euthanized after leg injuries during the 2006 racing season.
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A string of deaths caused by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain malady, in upstate New York has led a community to become increasingly concerned.
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It was a scary day at Metro&#39;s newest station at New York Avenue. A man fell onto the tracks Sunday afternoon on the Glenmont side of the station.
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Photos of more than 1,000 U.S.  soldiers who died in Afghanistan and Iraq were laid out in  Union Square Park in New York on Friday in a display intended  to put faces of the fallen before the public.