L.A. Unleashed
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Feb. 8, 2010
Sports
The 1,250-pound racehorse from Bay Meadows lay anesthetized on its back, strapped to the operating table and covered with a blue surgical blanket, its legs stiff in the air.
Jan. 26, 1987
Odds are, Joel Rosario will win a Breeders’ Cup race
Oct. 31, 2013
Science & Medicine
Re “Genesis Through the Back Door,” editorial, Nov. 20: May I suggest a new sticker for Cobb County science textbooks: “Evolution is a theory -- arrived at through an exhaustive and diligent search for truth conducted by the brightest and most rational members of our species -- not a fact, unlike creationism, which is a fact because men thousands of years ago wrote a story saying so, men who also thought the world was flat and the sun revolved around the Earth.”
Nov. 26, 2004
March 10, 2010
World & Nation
A nightmare has haunted Heidi Cunningham--a vision of a a young, gray thoroughbred in a muddy pen crowded with other horses destined to be sold for slaughter, for dog food or for French dinner tables.
Jan. 12, 1992
Ten years ago, Joe Shelton borrowed $1,000 on his credit card to rescue a mare from slaughter. Now, he shelters dozens of otherwise doomed animals.
April 16, 2000
Travel & Experiences
I don’t really believe in a life after death, but if there is a heaven, I want it to look something like the Keeneland Race Course outside of Lexington, Ky.
March 17, 1991
May 18, 2010
Opinion
President Trump’s public acceptance of the “racehorse theory” of human genetics is dangerous and must be loudly condemned.
Oct. 18, 2020