New Year's Day dawned rainy and windy as London's New Year's Day Parade took to the streets. The weather didn't deter the crowds though, and it couldn't rinse the smiles off four riders who tacked up their off-track Thoroughbreds for the parade. The quartet, sporting the yellow, red, and black quarter sheets that are practically […]

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At least one contestant in the upcoming National Handicapping Championship on Jan. 24-26 will be playing for more than the sizable winner's purse. Brent Sumja, a former trainer who recently emerged the winner of the 2013 National Handicapping Championship Tour, will be eligible for a $2-million bonus on top of the Championship's $750,000 winner's share. […]

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To this day, Mike DeMent isn't sure what drove him to look over the entries at Beulah Park in early January. The Chicago-based art director was idly clicking through a claiming race when he spotted 11-year-old Oh So Awesome. Something about the name seemed familiar to DeMent, who manages his family's small racing operation Brigade […]

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The racing industry isn't exactly known for having an atmosphere of cooperation. The conflicts within the sport stack up fast after a quick glance at the headlines. Change is on the horizon in at least one area, though—drug regulation. Officials are coming together around the Mid-Atlantic Uniform Medication Program, an initiative promoted by the Racing […]

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The Communication Alliance for Networking Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses' Kentucky division took its operation to a new level this month when it opened its first official retraining facility in Georgetown. For both CANTER Kentucky executive director Amanda Graham and trainer Stephanie Calendrillo, the event marks the realization of long-term goals. Graham has been saving money to open the […]

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What would horse racing in the United States become if some 22 percent of the population placed a bet each year? In a world with increasingly diverse entertainment and gaming options and the sport's fan base shrinking by 4 percent annually (according to the 2011 McKinsey Report), the Jockey Club and American racetracks are struggling to […]

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Much like horse trainers, writers are never truly retired from their craft. After a lengthy career that has included seven books, numerous legal articles and time spent as an editor of a regional weekly newspaper in California, Merle Horwitz isn't done writing yet. His latest book, a novel called “Winners,” was released in December. This […]

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Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Sharing is expected to make her 2020 debut on May 23 at Churchill Downs, according to co-owner Eclipse Thoroughbreds' Twitter account. Following the track's announcement of an adjusted stakes schedule on Monday, the 3-year-old filly will aim for the $100,000 Tepin Stakes, held over a mile on the turf course. […]

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I’ve been reading a couple of old books of book reviews by Anthony Burgess. Lots of great stuff. He’s a sort of Chesterton with a conscience, for example in this appreciation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin: As for Tom’s forgiving Christianity—‘O, Mas’r! don’t bring this great sin on your soul! It will hurt you more than […]

David Rohde points us to this new seminar series that has the following description: Machine learning is changing the world we live in at a break neck pace. From image recognition and generation, to the deployment of recommender systems, it seems to be breaking new ground constantly and influencing almost every aspect of our lives. […]

Tim Jarrell, a 32 year veteran of the National Park Service, was recently named Chief of the Facilities Management Division at Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/3009-03-19-jarrell.htm

Grand Canyon National Park rangers searching for three individuals in the Colorado River https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/canyon-search.htm

Grand Canyon National Park’s greenhouse population of sentry milk-vetch blooming in early March 2010, representing a major landmark in the park’s effort to recover its only federally-listed, endangered plant species. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2010-03-24_smv.htm

Chip seal projects are scheduled to begin at Grand Canyon National Park on both the South and North Rims. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/17jun10_news.htm

Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Steve Martin recently welcomed two new division chiefs to the park’s management team. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/13jul10_news.htm

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A chip seal project that began last summer on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park will be completed early this summer. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-05-25_ship-seal.htm

National Park Service investigators are seeking information on two separate incidents of possible child abuse in Grand Canyon National Park, both involving the same family. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-09-02_carlson.htm

Status of three wild-hatched condor chicks in Arizona: one fledged, one still in nest, one found dead https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-11-10_condors.htm

Grand Canyon National Park concessioner Grand Canyon Railway (owned and operated by Xanterra Parks and Resorts) was recently awarded the National Park Service's Environmental Achievement Award in the Lean, Clean and Green category. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2012-02-21_ea-award.htm

Grand Canyon National Park concessioner Xanterra South Rim, L.L.C. was recently awarded the National Park Service Director's Environmental Achievement Award in the Building Our Future category. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2012-05-05-xanterra-award.htm

Grand Canyon National Park’s longtime volunteer Sjors Horstman recently received a Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Volunteer Service Award – the highest volunteer award in the state of Arizona. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/grand-canyons-longtime-volunteer-sjors-horstman-receives-governors-lifetime-achievement-volunteer-service-award.htm

A National Park Service search mission continues in efforts to find Morgan Heimer. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/rangers-search-for-missing-river-guide.htm

Grand Canyon National Park and Yuntaishan Geopark from the Henan province of China renewed their five-year Sister Park Agreement on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/sister-park-agreement.htm

Grand Canyon National Park documented the fifth wild hatched California condor chick on Oct. 10, 2019, in the Southwestern wild population, making it an annual record number of chicks, or nestlings, within the region. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/record-number-of-sw-condor-chicks-2019-10-23.htm

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A primary mission of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service is multiple resource management, and one of the emerging themes is forest restoration. The National Silviculture Workshop, a biennial event co-sponsored by the Forest Service, was held May 7-10, 2007, in Ketchikan, Alaska, with the theme of "Integrated Restoration of Forested Ecosystems to Achieve Multiresource Benefits." This proceedings presents a compilation of state-of-the-art silvicultural research and forestry management papers that demonstrates integrated restoration to yield multiple resource benefits. These papers highlight national perspectives on ecosystem services, forest restoration and climate change, and regional perspectives on forest restoration and silvicultural practices to achieve multiple resource benefits from researchers and forest practitioners working in a broad array of forest types in the United States.

As the Government prepares to announce how and when the coronavirus lockdown will be relaxed, parents have put forward the questions they want answers to before they send their children back to school

Steven Quinn was fined a total of £360 and ordered to pay £62 compensation after walking out without settling-up at Lau's restaurant, in Newcastle City Centre

Owner-chef Bob Arora will be launching a takeaway service this May as well as hosting online cookery classes

Newcastle United goalkeeper Rob Elliot has opened up about team-mate Isaac Hayden and what makes him such an important player

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