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1. Sports Betting -- Horse Racing
   Horse racing is one of the time honored traditions of American sports betting. The highlight of this sport takes place every year during the months of May and June with the Triple Crown races, held at three different sites. The Kentucky Derby takes place in Louisville during the first Saturday in May.
2. Horse
   Update 2093: Horse racing in the US is declining in popularity. The viewer numbers for the Belmont, both on track and on TV, were down. The Florida Derby, last year won by Barbaro, was not even shown on TV this year despite NBC owning the rights to the race. The first two legs of the Triple Crown belong to NBC. The final leg, ABC / ESPN. Its a mess.
3. Horses
   Horses and other equids are odd-toed ungulates of the order Perissodactyla, a relatively ancient group of browsing and grazing animals that first arose less than 10 million years after the dinosaurs became extinct. In the past, this order contained twelve families, but only three families— Equidae (the horse and related species), the tapir and the rhinoceros—have survived to the present day. The earliest equids known as Hyracotherium developed approximately 54 million years ago, during the Eocene period. One of the first true horse species, it had 4 toes on each front foot, and 3 toes on each back foot. the extra toe on the front feet soon disappeared, and by the Pleistocene era, as the horse adapted to a drier, prairie environment, the 2nd and 4th toes disappeared on all feet, and horses became bigger. These side toes first shrunk in size until they have vanished in modern horses.
4. Horse -- Horses
   -- Horse slaughter is not a humane form of euthanasia. Horses suffer tremendously during transport to the slaughterhouse, and are killed using equipment designed for cattle. According to federal law, horses must be rendered unconscious prior to slaughter, usually with a captive bolt pistol. However, some are improperly stunned and still conscious when they are killed. In Canada and Mexico, slaughter methods are equally if not more barbaric.
5. Racing
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6. Horses -- Hands
   Impatient by nature, Horses insist that life revolves around them. When they have a chance to do something great, they will dive in with both hands, but their lack of discernment between promising and not-so-promising opportunities can block their success. Their great sense of humor makes Horses amusing friends. Their intelligence, passion and discipline will create good luck for them.
7. Horses -- Humans
   The ability of humans to work in cooperation with the horse is based on the strong social bonds that horses have with each other. Horses do not like to be separated from the herd, because to be alone is to be exposed to predators on all sides. Horse training principles are based upon having the horse accept a human as the dominant herd member, not through force, but by virtue of ability and confidence. It is those attributes that are highly valued because they point the way to survival. A horse that is afraid more than necessary will expend energy needlessly and may not be able to escape when the threat is real. In pastures, it is the rule that horses tend to gravitate around the most mature and confident members.
8. Horses -- Years
   Although birds are the primary hosts of West Nile Virus, the virus can ... be transmitted to humans and other animals (such as horses, cats, and squirrels) through mosquito bites. Most humans infected with WNV exhibit mild flu-like symptoms or no symptoms at all. However, in some cases, infection can cause life-threatening encephalitis or meningitis. Outbreaks of WNV in humans have been observed in Europe, Russia and the Middle East for years, with the first U.S. outbreak occurring in 1999. The disease has spread rapidly in the U.S. since then, and thus far in 2002 more than 3,700 cases of West Nile Virus infection have been reported by state health departments, resulting in over 200 deaths.
9. The Horse Whisperer
   The Horse Whisperer is a wonderful novel written by a fairly new author, Nicholas Evans, with only two other books under his belt. The book tells the story of how a 13-year-old girl, Grace, and her horse, Pilgrim, survive a horrific accident with a 40-ton truck. But both are physically and mental scarred. Grace loses her right leg and the Pilgrim breaks his nose and becomes consumed with fear.
10. Mongols -- Horses
    In battle, a historian wrote, “the Mongols made the fullest use of the terror inspired by their physique, their ugliness, and their stench.” Mongols were narrow-waisted and small-footed, with big heads. They shaved their hair short on the backs and tops of their heads and left it long at the sides. Custom forbade them from ever washing their clothes. Also contributing to their smell might have been their diet, which at certain times of the year was mainly mare’s milk. On marches when there wasn’t time to milk, Mongol riders would open a vein in their horses’ necks and drink the blood, either straight or from a pouch. Mongols were especially fond of fermented mare’s milk, called kumis.

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