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		<title>Frank &#8220;Scoop&#8221; Vessels III was reportedly killed in a plane crash near Burns, Oregon.</title>
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Frank &#8220;Scoop&#8221; Vessels III was reportedly killed in a plane crash near Burns, Oregon.
Vessels and a friend, Sam Cannell, were returning to Redding, California, from a fishing trip when the plane went down near Burns, Oregon, according to sources. It is believed there was an unknown third person on board that was also killed.
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		<title>Quarter horse deaths in California?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The amount of quarter horse deaths in California racing has skyrocketed the past two years while the amount of thoroughbred deaths has gone down, according to data released this week in another new report on racehorse deaths.
There were 78 quarter horse deaths in the year ending June 2009, doubling the amount since 2007. Meanwhile, thoroughbred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus Alfredo Soto died January 28 of a heart attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Alfredo Soto, 58, who with wife Sandra owned champion Royal Quick Dash, died January 28 of a heart attack. Soto had triple bypass surgery about a year ago, and that surgery was followed by a kidney transplant. 
Soto had been an attorney in Mexico before coming to the United States from Guasave, Sinaloa. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discounts for 2010 Stallion Services at Harts Farms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;With the tough economic conditions in the horse business we want to help mare owners this season,&#8221; farm owner Chad Hart said in a statement Tuesday.
Hart Farms is home to grade 1 winner and first crop sire Bigtime Favorite,multiple grade 1 sire Check Him Out, grade 2 winner Coronas Leaving You, #5 first crop sire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stallion &#8220;Jody O Toole&#8221; died</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ELGIN, TX—JANUARY 28, 2010—Multiple grade 1 sire Jody O Toole died yesterday at Southwest Stallion Station where he had stood for many years. He was 25. 
Jody O Toole, who stood at Southwest Stallion Station, has sired earners in excess of $7.7 million.
Owned by the Estate of Bob Douglas, Jody O Toole sired earners of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank “Scoop” Vessels III and the Quarter Horse Dynasty / Starting A Horse Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank “Scoop” Vessels III is unique in that he ranks simultaneously among the nation’s top leading breeders in both the Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse industries. The esteem in which both camps hold him is borne out by the fact that he is vice president of the American Quarter Horse Association and is also the vice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Alamitos cuts backs on their live racing schedules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two California racetracks have announced cutbacks in their live racing schedules effective the week of Jan. 25.
Los Alamitos, which offers Quarter Horse, Thoroughbred, and Arabian racing, said in a release it is dropping Thursday night racing “temporarily” through April, when 2-year-old racing begins. Racing will be held on a Friday-Saturday schedule for at least the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quarterhorse-racing.com/los-alamitos-cutbacks-back-on-their-live-racing-schedules/</link>
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		<title>GQHA looks to the Florida Quarter Horse Racing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Legislation introduced into the Georgia House of Representatives Tuesday could lead to the legalization of horse racing and pari-mutuel betting.
A constitutional amendment submitted by Rep. Harry Geisinger would let Georgians vote this fall on whether to allow the horseracing industry into the state, a move the Roswell Republican said would generate thousands of jobs.
“In these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Walk Thru Fire&#8221; syndicated for $10 million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Previously owned by a partnership that included trainer Jaime Gomez, Walk Thru Fire has been one of the most talked about stallions in Quarter Horse racing, thanks to a first crop featuring Kindergarten Futurity winner Gold Nugget Rd and Ed Burke Million winner Higher Fire. Prior to the purchase and syndicated for $10 million.
while Walk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;fast horse gene&#8221; is the &#8220;myostatin gene&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Science colleagues found that horses with the myostatin gene combination designated as C/C are better suited to fast, short races; those with the C/T variation tend to compete better over middle distances; and T/T animals have more stamina. C/C and C/T were more successful 2-year-old racehorses, earning an average of 5.5 times more prize money [...]]]></description>
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