You could House train your dog easily if you had the time to watch your puppy 24 hours a day. But as you cant watch them around the clock, dont expect to train them all at once. Training can take up to about 6 months. Puppies are growing and developing quickly at this stage. They eat more food...
The puppy is new and oh so cute. You cuddle with it every day and love to chase it around the yard or play tug of war with the stuffed animal that, in a year will probably be missing most of its limbs. However, all is not fun and games in the house with the new puppy. Now comes the hard part,...
Just like people, birds get hot and thirsty. Especially during the blistering summer months, your favorite flying friends may be roasting in their feathers. Help out your local birds and provide them with a shady spot to splash, play, bathe, and drinka bird bath! Especially in areas that lack...
When Christopher Columbus landed in the New World in 1492, he found a continent without horses. After returning to Spain, upon his return to the Americas, he brought back mares and stallions from Andalusia and Cordela. These horses were a mixture of Andalusian, Barb, and the now-extinct...
Before the great horse Citation, who was trained by Ben Jones and ridden by jockey Eddie Arcaro to victory for the 1948 triple crown, there was another horse that they had the distinction of also taking to triple crown glory, one of the most wild horses in all of racing history. His name,...
Sometimes the sons of the fathers surpass the accomplishments of the father. Such was the case with one of the greatest races horses of all time, the son of Man O’ War, War Admiral, who went on to become racing’s 4th triple crown winner.
War Admiral almost wasn’t the...
Some History of the Lipizzaners
The aristocratic Lipizzaners are descended from the Iberian Horse, which is the oldest breed in the world. Iberians were used as war horses from 4000 years before Mohammed, when camels were used as mounts in warfare and their Lipizzaner descendants today...
There have been many great triple crown winners in horse racing history. But none faded farther into obscurity than the triple crown winner Sir Barton.
He wasn’t the last but he was the first. This was an amazing achievement for this horse when you consider the following facts. ...
In this article we’re going to take a brief look at Secretariat’s early races in his career that led up to a triple crown winner.
Secretariat was a winner, but he didn’t start out that way. His very first maiden race was on the 4th of July in 1972. There was a lot of...
In this article we’re going to review the life and career of one of the greatest horses in horse racing history, Secretariat.
If you were around in the early 70s, regardless of whether you were into horse racing or not, you knew who Secretariat was. His name was plastered all...
In the short list of triple crown winners, this horse had to be one of the biggest bargains in racing history. We’re referring to the puzzle of a wonder, Seattle Slew.
The story of this horse is just another reminder of how weird the sport of horse racing can be and how...
In this article we’re going to briefly go over the career of one of the most famous horses in racing history, Citation.
If you look past the losses that Citation sustained at the end of his career, this has to have been one of the greatest horses in racing history if you simply...