NEWS
May 16, 2009
Horseshoe manufacturer worker suffers hand injuries 2 An employee at a Rosedale horseshoe manufacturer was seriously injured Friday morning after his hands were caught in a 60-ton press, according to a Baltimore County Fire Department spokeswoman. The man was taken to the Curtis National Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital. His injuries were not considered life-threatening, said the spokeswoman, Elise Armacost. About 9 a.m., county fire crews were called to Victory Racing Plate Co. at 1200 Rosedale Ave. Using airbags and hydraulic tools, it took them about 25 minutes to free the worker's hands from the press, which is used to mold metal into horseshoes, Armacost said.
NEWS
By CANDUS THOMSON | April 3, 2009
I normally choose my Derby pony based on which name comes closest to reminding me of an adult beverage. But these are not normal times. The horse that seems to be made for 2009 is I Want Revenge. (For more, go to baltimoresun.com/toydept)
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By LAURA VOZZELLA | May 14, 2008
A Maryland tourism ad has gone over big in a Fairfax Station, Va., barn. Too big. Maddie the mare has quit eating breakfast because she's too busy neighing back to the Assateague pony in the radio spot. "Every morning on my way to work in Lorton, I stop in Fairfax Station to feed my horses their morning meal," Marjorie Wolson wrote to WTOP. "I listen to WTOP in my car on the drive over and on the radio in our barn once I arrive. "For the past several days, as they were supposed to be eating and I occupied myself with morning chores, my thoroughbred mare comes away from her feed and begins to neigh.
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By Mary Gail Hare | May 10, 2008
A young male pit bull attacked several horses pastured at a northern Harford County farm Wednesday, injuring one so severely that it was put down. Another horse might not survive its injuries and a third has nearly 50 stitches on its face, officials said. Harford County animal control officials ordered the dog destroyed yesterday. "Based on information from witnesses and past history, this dog was considered potentially dangerous and had to be destroyed for the safety of this neighborhood," said Pamela Arney, Harford's animal control officer.
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By Sandra McKee | May 1, 2008
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Fair Hill-based trainer Graham Motion had a little more excitement in his morning routine than he would have liked during his first Kentucky Derby week in 10 years. As Motion was bringing Adriano back from his morning gallop, another horse, who had thrown his rider, ran loose and came worrisomely close to Motion and his A.P. Indy colt. The trainer, seeing the loose horse in his peripheral vision, quickly directed his pony and Adriano into the empty shedrow of Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas' barn.
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By Karen Nitkin | March 28, 2008
At the Day's End Farm Horse Rescue on a breezy spring day, a brown and white pony circled around and around an outdoor pen. The pony was a new arrival, a stray that had been brought to the farm because it didn't seem to have an owner. At Day's End, the rescued horses are named in alphabetical order, starting with A at the beginning of the year. By March, it was time to give this pony a name starting with the letter N. Christine Ericksen, one of about 15 staff members, suggested the name Nemo, since the pony, like Nemo the fish in the movie Finding Nemo, had been separated from home.
NEWS
December 23, 2007
The term "horserace" is relentlessly applied to presidential election campaigns, but the current contest actually fits the label. It features neck-and-neckers, come-from-behinders and odds-maker favorites who stumbled out of the gate. With large fields vying for the Republican and Democratic nominations now headed into what may or may not be the final furlongs, this is surely the most compelling White House competition in decades. Alas, like horseracing, this presidential primary contest is likely to be for most Americans a spectator sport.
NEWS
November 4, 2007
Is there a place in the world for cute? There is if you don't have to put up with too much of it. The cuteness in question today is embodied in a toy called My Little Pony, which this year celebrates its 25th birthday, having now occupied a full generation's worth of girls' imaginations worldwide, while simultaneously alarming a generation of parents worried about excessive exposure to saccharine. But is artificial sweetener really so dangerous? Today's young women seem to have their heads screwed on straight - which is more than can be said for the Barbies they took up after leaving My Little Pony bereft and unwanted in the back of the closet.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | November 3, 2007
Paul J. Travers remembered the first time he saw the Colts' mascot, Carolyn Clark, and her Welsh pony, Dixie, cantering around the cinder warning track at old Memorial Stadium. "It was 1960. I used to go to Colts games with the Southeast Police Boys' Club. We'd meet on Bank Street carrying our lunches in a brown paper bag and then board a school bus for the trip to the stadium," Travers recalled yesterday. "Once there, we'd take our seats in the far left field bleachers way up high where we spent most of our time looking at Carolyn and the cars in the parking lot. I guess you could say it was an infatuation with an older girl," he said, laughing.
NEWS
By [ANDREA GROSSMAN] | October 7, 2007
Celebrate fall at the 43rd National Apple Harvest Festival in Arendtsville, Pa., 10 miles northwest of Gettysburg. The festival, created by the Adam's County Fruitgrowers Association, began in 1965 and includes something for everyone: more than 300 arts and crafts vendors, antique and classic cars, puppet shows, and pony and hay rides. Live music will be played on six stages. Festivalgoers can eat an array of foods, including barbecue, rib-eye steak sandwiches, apple butter, kettle corn, apple fritters and sweet potato fries.