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Fatal fire He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Snow was one of the owners of the Santa
14 horses die in Indiana stable blaze Ynez Farm, a horse-breeding facility. Suffolk Punch rescue
CHESTERFIELD, Ind. (AP) - Retired The Federal Aviation Administration is in-
racing Thoroughbreds and Quarter horses vestigating the crash.
and their weanlings were among 14 horses
who died after a wind-swept fire destroyed Delaware
a stable.
Indiana Stallion Station farrier Lee White- College ordered to keep equestrian team
man said some of the horses froze in fear DOVER, Del. (AP) - A judge has ordered
at the sight of the April 12 fire and rescuers Delaware State University to keep its wom-
worked to pull the animals out until firefight- en’s equestrian team for at least one more
ers ordered them to evacuate the stable about season.
35 miles northeast of Indianapolis, The school and 15 student-athletes who al-
Chesterfield-Union Township Fire Chief leged gender discrimination agreed to the or-
Todd Huffer said three stable workers were der, according to court documents filed April
treated for smoke inhalation at an Anderson 7 in U.S. District Court.
hospital. University spokesman Carlos Holmes says
Investigators have ruled that the fire was that does not change the school’s decision to
accidental. eventually end the sport, which will help trim
the athletics budget.
Kentucky Derby An attorney for the athletes says her cli-
ents will continue to push for permanent re-
Joe Torre long shot Homeboykris instatement of the program.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Los Angeles Another lawsuit filed by a Canadian teen-
ager who signed a letter of intent to join
Dodgers manager Joe Torre won’t be able the equestrian team also was settled. Malia
to watch his horse run in the Kentucky Der- Blakely accused the university of Title IX
by, so he went to see him while he had the discrimination against female athletes.
chance.
With the Dodgers in Cincinnati for a series Pitt bulls’ rampage
with the Reds, Torre drove down to spend
Kill pregnant mare
April 21 on the backside at Churchill Downs
SELMA, Ore. (AP) - Josephine County
visiting with Homeboykris. authorities say three pit bulls who killed a
The 3-year-old colt has just enough graded pregnant mare have been taken to a shelter
stakes earnings to run in the Derby. and will not be returned to their owner. AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Carol Lawrence
Torre bought a share of the horse after the Animal control supervisor Brad Tally says Firefighter Daniel Ramburg secured a strap around Sky, a 2,100-pound Suffolk
colt won the Champagne Stakes at Belmont the owner of the dogs will likely be fined for
maintaining a dangerous dog. Punch draft horse, before he was lifted from a mud bog on the Miller Farm on Old
last October and is itching to see how he Pueblo Road in Fountain, Colo. March 12. The horse was buried up to his back in
Caryn Gumaer owned the mare named
fares in the Derby, where he will likely be a Sugar Plum. She says a neighbor still trau- the mud overnight and found by Rex Miller when he didn’t show up to the barn to
long shot. matized by the attack saw five dogs slip un- eat. The horse is owned by Miller’s daughter and son-in-law, Carl and Elizabeth
der a fence and maul the horse that was days Evans. They estimated he was in the cold mud for five to six hours. Randy’s Towing
North Carolina away from giving birth. donated the truck and operators for the rescue.
Stable fire kills 13 horses An animal control officer could only find
three of the suspects. A check
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Thirteen of their feces turned up hair
horses died when a fire roared through their from the horse.
stable at a North Carolina equestrian center A neighbor with a backhoe
April 8. helped bury Sugar Plum under
The fire was at Foxwood Farms, about
15 miles northwest of Chapel Hill, Orange an apple tree near Selma.
Grove Fire Chief Tommy Holmes said.
The blaze had burned through the barn and
the horses were dead by the time the first of
about 40 volunteer fire-
fighters arrived about 10
minutes later, he said.
“It was totally burned
Dry Sawdust
up. There wasn’t no roof
left,” Holmes said.
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