Hairy Biker Dave Myers on horse meat scandal (08Feb13) [04:14]
Half of the Hairy Biker's Dave Myers talks about the horse meat scandal, farming in the UK, and how supermarkets screw down price while increasing profits. S...
2012 Radnor Hunt Race [03:17]
The 2012 Radnor Hunt Races were held on May 19. Lancaster Farming and Mid-Atlantic Horse were there to cover the event.
Tags: horse, farming, racing, jockey, Horse Racing (Sport), farm, track, race, chester, philadelphia, radnor, hunt, steeplechase, sports
Tony Calo announcing a live race! [01:02]
Tony Calo announces a live thoroughbred horse race at Finger Lakes Casino & Racetrack!
Tags: finger, lakes, casino, racetrack, horse, thoroughbred, racing, farmington, ny, racino, announcer
Finger Lakes Finish Line [00:08]
I caught this horse exercising early this morning and thought I'd get a "slow motion" version of a horse crossing the wire. Imagine 3 or 4 horses running full speed past this line....exciting stuff!
Tags: thoroughbred, racing, farmington, ny, Finger Lakes Racetrack, FLKS, horse
PC MPP John O'Toole speaking at Queen's Park rally for Ontario's horse racing industry [00:40]
On Monday, March 26, members and supporters of Ontario's horse-racing industry showed up at Queen's Park en masse to protest the Ontario Liberal Government's decision to close slot parlours at a number of provincial raceways and inexplicably walk away from the mutually-beneficial and highly-successful slots-at-racetracks contractual partnership. With buses from all over the province converging on Queen's Park, more than 1500 individuals, including MPPs, representatives from all of Ontario's horsemen's groups and other political representatives, congregated in order to let elected leaders and the mass media know that the industry will not take the Liberals' hasty, misinformed, and reckless decision in stride. In closing multiple raceway slots parlours and planning to step away from the economic machine which is the slots-at-racetracks program, the Provincial Liberal Government has essentially taken the stance that employing 60000 Ontarians, raking in more than $1.36-billion in direct annual revenue, and creating $2-billion in annual economic impact for the province is not worth trumpeting, let alone saving. Finance Minister Dwight Duncan has been falsely referring to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Slots at Racetrack revenue sharing program as a subsidy. His claim is that the Government has been providing a $345 million annual subsidy to Ontario's Horse Racing Industry. In a recent fundraising email to supporters, the Ontario Liberal Party suggested that they are "choosing ...
Tags: Ontario, Horse Racing, Horses, Breeding, harness racing, OLG, thoroughbred, standardbred, quarter horse, Liberal, Dwight Duncan, Andrea Horwath, Tim Hudak, farmer, farming, agriculture, casino, gambling, bet, Dalton mcguinty, jobs, employment, racetrack,