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RACING HALL OF FAME
On Friday 3rd March 2006 the inaugural NZ Bloodstock Racing Hall of Fame event was held ...
2006 INDUCTEES:
CARBINE
SIR GEORGE CLIFFORD
GEORGE GATONBY STEAD
RICHARD (DICK) JOHN MASON
GLOAMING
PHAR LAP
W.J. (BILL) BROUGHTON
KINDERGARTEN
BILL (W.D.) SKELTON
BOB (R.J.) SKELTON
D.J. (DAVE) O’SULLIVAN
SIR PATRICK HOGAN
LANCE O’SULLIVAN
SUNLINE
NYPD buys more police horses
A New Crime Fighter, for $10 in Hay and Oats - New York Times
"There's a reason we call them the 10-foot cop," Mr. Kelly said. "You can see them from blocks away, they're great at crowd control and they're probably the most photographed piece of equipment we have. I'm a huge fan."
So are police departments around the country. After decades of being viewed as a quaint 19th-century throwback, horseback policing is undergoing a resurgence in cities like Honolulu, Las Vegas and Oklahoma City. Law enforcement officials have come to appreciate the tactical and economic advantages of a mobile crime-fighting force whose members cost one-fifth the price of a Crown Victoria cruiser.
One mounted officer, police strategists like to say, carries the punch of 10 beat officers, especially when it comes to making a statement at large public gatherings or on busy downtown streets.
Scott McClelland, whose family in Canada trains and sells horses to law enforcement agencies across North America, said he gets weekly calls from small town sheriffs and big city police chiefs interested in starting mounted units.
"They can do more than a cop on foot, or a guy in a car," said Mr. McClelland, speaking from his ranch on the plains of Saskatchewan. "They can gallop through traffic, go the wrong way up one-way streets, and they're great for community relations. I mean, you can't exactly pet a cop car. Or a police dog, for that matter."
News Links:
BLM Proposes Wild Horse Birth Control
...BLM officials also want to use a bait-trapping program this summer to capture and take up to 24 horses off the range, which is in southern Montana and northern Wyoming. Linda Coates-Markle, BLM's wild horse and burro specialist for Montana and the Dakotas, said this and the birth control effort are more humane and less intrusive than traditional round ups that cull horses from the land. ...
NYPD Mounted Police
Public relations is a Mounted Unit forte. Seldom is public attention so magnetically drawn to police as it is to a officer on horseback. The expertise of Mounted unit Officer in crowd control is also renowned...
FILM - Wild Horses of Newbury
Synopsis
Live Footage of actual experience
When a road gang tries to destroy ancient forests, two black horses appear to stop the chainsaws.
Inspiration
There was no inspiration for the film, apart from the moment itself. I was at Newbury, filming the protests and the evictions on a Hi8 Camcorder...
Last Word:
Check out this page I found with photos of classic western movie stars with their favorite mounts
    
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