The Irish National Stud

As a Lexington resident used to palatial stables on every other hill and rolling green fields stocked with fuzzy foals, I thought I’d be immune

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Preliminary Report

Such an incredible day! I’m so excited to tell you all about our trip to the National Stud and share some of the hundreds of

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Derry Air

We’ve arrived safely in Dublin and are now waiting for the rest of the tour participants to get in so we can roll out. There

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Weird Hits Primetime

Two of our front page stories from the past week certainly qualify as weird: the Miami-area horse killings and the recent poisoning of 23 California

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Ready to Roll

My bag is checked, the Ryder Report is wrapped, the crew at the office has a stockpile of items to post, and now it’s only

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Jinxed

My apologies to the participants in the Ironman 70.3 Steelhead triathlon in Benton Harbor, Mich., Saturday: it seems I was premature in declaring the weather

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Equine ER numerology

Today: Stats from behind the scenes; Next week: new Equine ER chapter excerpt featuring Dr. Larry Bramlage, the “Bono” of equine veterinarians. And coming this

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23 Horses Deliberately Poisoned

Did you see the article https://thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=14641 about the 23 Saddlebreds in California that were deliberately fed a concoction of carrots, apples, and oleander leaves to

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Fine, Soft Days

With about 60 hours to go until I depart for Dublin, there are quite a few tasks still on my to-do list. I need to

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Weekends are for …

This weekend is for mowing and catching up. It’s been fun to have lots of rain this year instead of the drought we faced the

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Windfall

[wind-fawl] -noun 1. an unexpected gain, piece of good fortune, or the like.2. something blown down by the wind, as fruit. Why windfall? Because it

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Drinking Buddies

I’m not drunk–the horse is. That’s what a woman allegedly told police when she was given a disorderly conduct ticket for riding a horse down the

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Of Ponies and Paperbacks

There was some concern in Philadelphia earlier this week when the Emmanuel FrŽmiet statue of Joan of Arc was unceremoniously loaded on a flatbed and

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