Unsurprisingly, many of the organizations focus on equine welfare, particularly Thoroughbred aftercare: rescue, retirement, re-training, re-homing.
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But not every thoroughbred that gave their lives to racing has the same happy ending.
Mexico started off the year like a thoroughbred leaving the gates at the Kentucky Derby.
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The thoroughbred sector benefits solely from a tax exemption on the fees for stallion nominations.
This is Sagamore, the 530-acre Thoroughbred horse-racing farm in Glyndon, Maryland, that Plank bought in 2007.
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However, the Thoroughbred Racing Industry is a small fraction of the horse slaughter picture.
Her job also means delivering bad news, a constant reality in thoroughbred racing, about a horse's health.
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Chantilly is known locally for the Hippodrome Princes de Conde, the most prestigious thoroughbred horseracing track in France.
Servers are born to share files like a thoroughbred is born to run.
So to Thoroughbred racing, happy new year, and to the horses, happy birthday.
The win means no other Thoroughbred will ever bear the name Giacomo again.
For the last 15 years, as prices for young horses have risen, the thoroughbred gene pool has been shrinking.
All this suggests that Google's one-trick pony is really more of a thoroughbred.
After he sold two medical technology companies he'd founded, Lordi took up horse breeding (including a thoroughbred named Saigon Eve).
The average price of a thoroughbred at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga summer yearling sale is down 6% from last year.
By August, after five months of haggling, the farm was theirs and Payson Park Thoroughbred Training Center was born.
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The latter is already being investigated by federal authorities over his personal business dealings in property and sales of thoroughbred horses.
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Frank Stronach, owner of Adena Springs, also owns Gulfstream Park, which has created its own Thoroughbred retirement and retraining program.
The average number of races for thoroughbred starters has fallen 44% since 1960 to 6.31 in 2007 -- an all-time low.
Pickens is the owner of Cigar, which, with 16 consecutive wins, is reportedly the top money earner in thoroughbred racing history.
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The National Thoroughbred Racing Association has created an aftercare program designed to connect horses that need homes with potential adopters.
Days before my visit, that price had been paid for a 2-year-old Thoroughbred at an auction not far from Pure Thoughts.
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It was later revealed the thoroughbred had won the esteemed title with a leg injury -- only adding to her mythical invincibility.
He's the registrar of the Jockey Club and the person who says yea or nay to some 37, 000 Thoroughbred names a year.
But when Thoroughbred racehorses are involved, even those whose names are unknown to most of the racing public, the spotlight gets bright.
There is hardly a time when I ride my skittish thoroughbred that I don't wonder whether horses are a form of insanity.
They mourn the good old days, the glory days of Thoroughbred racing.
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Salvation comes in Marion County, the heart of Florida's thoroughbred racing industry.
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The flat, rolling countryside surrounding the capital is dotted with ranches where you can encounter cowboy culture and gallop into the sunset astride an Argentine thoroughbred.
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