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Update 2926: An amusing gaff: Irish riders see old year out too soon (found on equidaily.)
Update 2925: A New Year's update from Penny at timwoolleyracing.com:
Happy New Year to all of our fans out there and a happy birthday to all of our horses. What a cold and windy Wednesday morning but Tim is holding up well. On Saturday morning Kitty and Molly breezed a strong half mile breaking from the starting gate. Both are doing great and should be to the races shortly. At dinner time last night both ladies seemed just fine and ready to eat. Paris Night also breezed on Saturday. This was her first breeze back after having a few problems with an abcess in her foot. She is fine now and enjoyed going an easy quarter mile. Veiled Reference is fine and she is bobbing her head for her food. She has really grown up in the last few months. Yesterday after a little hike with my running dog Zeke, we had to bring Luke in after he was jumping and speeding around the porta pad. He is sure enjoying this cooler weather. Rockin Fun breezed by himself on Saturday and is making slow but steady progress. He was ready to eat his dinner last night as always. We also have another new horse in the barn and her name is Powdered Donut. She is a grey filly who is obviously very sweet. I would like to thank her owner Marty for the beautiful flowers he brought me. He obviously knows who's good side to be on. Not a lot exciting to write about this morning. Lucky is now at Fair Hill and doing just fine. Robbie fell off him yesterday but he stood still and let Robbie jump back on. He must have seen something that he thought was very scary. Both horse and rider survived to live another day.
Update 2924: Today was very chilly! When the sun got up it didn't get much warmer and the wind picked up too. I thought galloping close to gulf coast I would only experience warm weather! Oh well. On top of that I had to wear that nasty Romo shirt. Its done. I had nine sets today, a busy morning after a couple of days off. All went well for me, not for everyone. Figuerao jumped off, or fell off, not sure. He kept hold of his horse. Another horse went down, right in front of us. He lay down for a couple of minutes, and then got up. It was an odd thing to watch, he appeared fine. A groom got slapped by a horse, I think he had to go to hospital for a check up, but is fine. Just a few odd incidents at the track this morning.
Update 2923: Marty McGee assesses the three year old crop that is based in Florida: Fertile ground for Derby prospects.
Morning New Year (and therefore birthday!) skritches to the BBH, Sir JH, Gorgeous George and all of their wonderful frens and relations, new and old, in Equine Heaven.
Morning New Year greetings to all down below! Let's do it again...!!!
MORNING POST, SHELLEY A, DEBRA, WI
STRATEGY FOR WEDNESDAY JANUARY 2
We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and wish you all the best for the New Year. May 2008 see all of your dreams come true and may we celebrate the end of horse slaughter once and for all!!
Now it’s time to get back to work!! Our voices have been heard and the support has grown. When we look back over last year, we should all be very proud of our accomplishments. There are no slaughter houses operating in this country, awareness has been heightened and, because of you, many thousands of horses have been saved. We are beginning 2008 with 191 cosponsors in the House and 38 cosponsors in the Senate. We are actually in a better position because some of the big, time consuming issues like the Farm Bill are out of the way. There will now be time for other issues to be addressed when Congress returns later this month.
The strategy will remain the same until Congress comes back or until we are told otherwise. We will keep the pressure on the leadership to get S311 put on the calendar quickly or to support any legislation that contains language to end horse slaughter and the transportation of American horses to slaughter.
Senate Majority Leader: Harry Reid ph: 202-2224-3542 fax: 202-224-7327
Senate Minority Leader: Mitch McConnell ph: 202-224-2541 fax: 202-224-2499
Senate President Pro Tempore Robert S. Byrd ph: 202 224-3954 fax: 202-228-0002
Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin ph: 202-224-2152 fax: 202-228-0400
Assistant Minority Leader Jon Kyl Ph: 224-4521 Fax: 202-224-2207
It’s been a long, sometimes discouraging road, however, you have all worked so hard to get this far. As we move forward, let us never forget Barbaro’s legacy and what brought us all together. He left us a task to complete…..let’s get this done!!!!
We are BARBARO's VOICE.....let it be heard!!
Shelley and Debra
Posted by: ShelleyA at January 1, 2008 11:39 PM
Cheers,
Friar Tuck
Posted by: Friar Tuck at January 2, 2008 11:13 AM