Star Horse From Europe Is Euthanized After Classic
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George Washington, considered one of the top horses in Europe, sustained a fractured right front leg during the running of the Breedersâ Cup Classic on Saturday and had to be euthanized.
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Azeri, who was Horse of the Year in 2002 and one of top females in thoroughbred racing history, was retired from competition and will be sent to Kentucky to be bred.
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Allen Jerkens, the 75-year-old Hall of Fame trainer, was long ago dubbed the Giant Killer for training horses that defeated Secretariat twice and Kelso three times.
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Gemina, a giraffe with a distinctive crooked neck and one of the most beloved animals at the Santa Barbara Zoo, has died. She was 21. The zoo euthanized the animal on Wednesday, it was announced Thursday.
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After the cancellation of a walking-horse championship, concerns are  being raised about how those high-stepping horses are treated
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Funny things happen when a horse knocks on the door to racing history and can&#39;t get through. Smarty Jones, this year&#39;s near-Triple Crown winner, is retired to a career as a stallion.
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Former Grand National-winning jockey Mick Fitzgerald announced that he will retire at the end of the season.
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Invasor, regarded as the world's best racehorse, was retired to stud on Saturday after breaking a small bone in his hind leg.
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Peace Rules has been retired after a slight injury to the colt&#39;s left front leg was discovered during training for Saturday&#39;s $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park.
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Azeri, Horse of the Year in 2002 and a near certainty for the Distaff Race in the Breeders&#39; Cup at Lone Star Park Saturday, is to run instead in the tougher but much more prestigious $4 million Classic.
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Silmaril wins her final race in a furious rally, taking the $80,000 What a Summer Stakes to become just the 17th Maryland-bred horse to surpass $1 million in her career.
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Six horses had to be put down Wednesday after a horrific truck crash on a highway in Slovakia, The Markiza Television network reported.
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The US House of Representatives voted to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption, which could bring an end to a 40-billion dollar industry exporting horse meat to Europe and Japan.
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After the death of a mare in Manhattan, a call to ban the cityâs famous horse-drawn carriages has sparked a national debate.
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Hubble Space Telescope -- An international team of astronomers is announcing today that they have identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and
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DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) - He has been immortalized on the big screen, in a beer ad, with a racing cup named in his honor. Yet the fate of Shergar remains an enduring mystery 25 years after the champion stallion was kidnapped.
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NEW YORK The horse that spoiled &quot;Smarty Jones&#39;&quot; bid for the Triple Crown is being retired from racing. Belmont Stakes winner &quot;Birdstone&quot; was retired today after chipping a bone in his left front ankle during the Breeders&#39; Cup Classic.