Videos tagged with "personal"

Standardbred Canada Video Feature - Thanksgiving [05:29]
For Canada's harness racing participants, Thanksgiving is all about good food, good company, and appreciating the most cherished things in life. Trainers, drivers and harness racing personalities discuss their favourite things about Thanksgiving dinner and what they are most thankful for in this week's Standardbred Canada video feature.

Michael Chopra And Two Other Footballers Accused Of Betting Corruption [01:18]
The Championship footballers Michael Chopra and James Coppinger and the jockey Andrew Heffernan are among nine individuals who could face long bans from racing after they were charged with serious breaches of the anti corruption rules by the British Horseracing Authority on Thursday.Yogesh Joshee Chopras agent also faces charges along with Mark Wilson a former player with Manchester United Paul Garner a former stable lad Kelly Inglis who is believed to have been Heffernans girlfriend at the time of the offences Douglas Shelley and Pravin Shingadia. The charges against them include offering bribes, exploiting inside information for personal gain and in the case of Heffernan, three charges that he intentionally failed to ensure that a horse was ridden on its merits.The BHA charges follow an investigation into suspicious betting patterns on a number of races at Britain's four all-weather racecourses between November 2010 and March 2011. In all, nine races are at the heart of the BHA's case, including four at Southwell, three at Lingfield and one each at Wolverhampton and Kempton.

Amazing legacy of Hall of Fame jockey Chris Loseth, Personal Ensign [15:15]
Cinderella horse wins 2000 John Longdenn 2005 Breeders' Cup Oaks w Monashee j Stein

You Are a S atellite ::|| My Favourite Horses [02:48]
Read description!! Hello all. A new video here. I apologise for the HIDEOUS quality of a lot of the pictures, I'm not sure why it's so horrible, but I didn't have clipd for most of them! ALSO yet again I have two strikes so I could very well be deleted for the third time very soon. I'm in the process of getting a backup account sorted so bear with... ANYHOO, this video is just a personal thing for me really. All the horses in this video mean something to me. I'm quite a new racing fan (been into it about four years now) so I've only included more recent horses-there are many more like Secretariat, Red Rum, Desert Orchid, Arkle etc from years ago who would have made the list too! Some of these horses you will be familiar with, others not so much (jump racing is only popular in Britain where I Iive really). There's a mixture of flat horses and jump ones. They're not necessarily the 'greatest horses' of all time, but to me they are all special in some way. Some appear more than once because I had good clips of them, eg Frankel, Denman etc. My american racing isn't up to scratch, and these are the horses from America who have really captured my interest. Who are of you guys' favourite horses? Whack them in the comment box if you want :) Here is a list of the horses all in the order they appear in the video: Frankel (No explanation needed, best horse in the world, unbeaten in 13 races so far, and I'm going to see him race at Ascot next week!! Cannot wait) Snow Fairy (7 time ...

Standardbred Canada Video Feature - Movie Stars [02:54]
The sport of harness racing is full of heart-warming and gut-wrenching stories undiscovered by filmmakers. On any given day you can count on a roller-coaster ride of emotions, high-speed action, and personalities big enough for the silver screen. With many of Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars making headlines at this week's Toronto International Film Festival, Standardbred Canada has asked trainers and drivers to weigh in on which actor they would choose to play themselves if a film were made about their lives in this week's video feature.