Britain To Send More Troops To Afghanistan

Britain To Send More Troops To Afghanistan

December 1, 2009 by lee  
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LONDON news Update: Britain is to send extra 500 troops to Afghanistan after three key conditions were met, Gordon Brown has confirmed.
Britain To Send More Troops To Afghanistan
The Prime Minister made the announcement in a statement to MPs setting out the next stage of his strategy for the mission.

Mr Brown told the Commons that the soldiers will be sent to Afghanistan in early December.

He said the total number of UK troops in the country, including special forces and supporting troops, would be more than 10,000.

Last month, he agreed “in principle” to send extra military personnel – but the increase was dependent on three conditions, which he said have now been met.

They include an Afghan commitment to provide sufficient home-grown troops for training, assurances the British forces could be adequately equipped and that the increase in troop numbers would be part of a coalition-wide deployment with each ally bearing its “fair share”.

He died doing his duty as a British soldier, among his fellow soldiers, and we will remember him.

An army spokesman pays tribute after news of the latest fatality

I Dreamed A Dream, Susan Boyle Album

November 20, 2009 by lee  
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I Dreamed A Dream, Susan Boyle Album updates:- I Dreamed A Dream by Susan Boyle, the upcoming debut album from the talent show sensation, has achieved the largest global CD pre-orders in the history of Amazon.com, This title will be released on November 23, 2009.
I Dreamed A Dream, Susan Boyle AlbumAbout I Dreamed A Dream:- Inspirational and breathtaking, “I Dreamed a Dream” is the highly anticipated album from a global phenomenon whose dream has become reality.
She captured the hearts of millions and became a worldwide YouTube phenomenon with over 300 million hits. An inspiration for those who have a dream, the talented Susan Boyle presents her stunning debut album. Susan surprised the world with her powerful, heart stopping voice when she walked onto the Britain’s Got Talent stage. Now with a beautiful and diverse album she will, once again, defy preconceptions. I Dreamed a Dream, the album, crafted by world acclaimed producer Steve Mac, demonstrates Susan Boyle’s extensive musical ability. Featuring her signature songs, `I Dreamed a Dream’ & `Cry me a River’ the album also includes a haunting rendition of Rolling Stones “Wild Horses”, Madonna’s `You’ll See, The Monkees `Daydream Believer’ and “Who I Was Born To Be” an original recording written specially for Susan. Susan enthused; “It was my greatest ambition to release an album and I have finally achieved it. This amazing journey has helped me find my own identity and fulfill my wish. There is happiness out there for everyone who dares to dream.”
About Susan Boyle

January 21st 2009 is not a date that Susan Boyle is ever likely to forget. ‘I will never forget it,’ she clarifies, in her unmistakeably Celtic brogue. It was the day that the shy, devout 48 year old stepped onto the stage of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow for an audition on Britain’s Got Talent. Or to put it another way, the day her world turned 360 degrees on its head. In front of the three-strong panel of judges charged with divining which of this year’s British hopefuls really did have talent, the singing voice of Susan Boyle turned out to be a watershed moment neither she nor anyone involved in the show could possibly have foreseen. It is now both her and the show’s defining moment.

In her own haphazard fashion, during three and a half minutes of television airtime, later aired to slack-jawed intakes of breath in May of this year, Susan Boyle fashioned a new kind of fame. She elicited a moment of pure, molten zeitgeist. She broke every rule of the talent show book and tore up a considerable number of the pages of popular music marketing into the bargain. She symbolized an astonishing variety of the little-people’s revenge, quite by accident. Ms Boyle describes her own astonishing 2009 in refreshingly frank and simple terms. ‘All I did was to apply for a talent show. I was lucky enough to be chosen. That’s it in a nutshell.’ But something deeper was going on in the collective public consciousness. If the two watchwords of the 21st century have been ‘reality’ and ‘celebrity’, Susan Boyle had accidentally located a brand new point on the graph where they both intersected. One of Britain’s forgotten characters had rarely, if ever, been so memorable.

After her one audition for Britain’s Got Talent, in which she confounded the judges, the audience and then anyone with access to Youtube’s expectations by dazzling her way through a version of the song I Dreamed A Dream, from the musical Les Miserables, a tornado of opinionated column inches, speculation, rumination and conjecture around Susan Boyle grew feverishly. 300 Million You Tube hits and counting. She became the subject of op-ed newspaper columns, a front cover sensation in her own right. This unlikely candidate for the melting pot of the new star machine in 21st century Britain caused computer crashes, miles of newsprint and the sophisticated approval of Hollywood’s well-heeled and super-groomed A-list. Though the content differed wildly, everyone proffering their thoughts on the self-confessed ‘wee wifey’ seemed agreed on one point. That in 2009, to be free of an opinion on Susan Boyle was to be free of opinion itself.
For one brief moment, vanity itself collapsed. As that ancient old maxim – ‘Never judge a book by its cover’ – clanked around the globe with speedy viral intensity, it was as if the world was about to offer its first unspoken apology for prizing beauty above all else. Perhaps it would temporarily forget its grotesquely accentuated new heights of judgement. Or perhaps Susan Boyle was just a fleeting icon by which a microscope was shone on our more fickle presumptions. Whatever history gifts the Susan Boyle story in the long term, it is now her time to prove that there is more to this incredible woman than being the symbol for a moment of international reflection. She will do it in the exact same way she entered our consciousness in the first place. With the raw combination of strength and fragility, beauty and solitude that is her singing voice.

In some ways, Ms Boyle’s story is just the same as any woman with a voice in any choir up and down the UK. In her home town of Blackburn, she had been schooled in singing in churches and choral societies. She says now that, as a shy young woman with some learning difficulties, being hidden in the blanket of a collective singing arrangement offered her comfort. So in one other, crucial way, her story is entirely her own. The most unlikely chorister in the sea of voices stepped out of line and put her head above the parapet to be noticed. For Susan Boyle, though she would never deign to say so much herself, this was an act of personal heroism, the like of which she had never contemplated before.

The speed with which reaction to her performance picked up gravitas proved an incendiary media hotbed. But it was most surprising for the woman at the centre of it. ‘It started off with the [Scottish newspaper] Daily Record visiting my door. And it ended up with TV stations from all over the world camping out on my street waiting for interviews and stories. I’d peak behind the curtains in the house, saying ‘what in God’s name is going on here?’ Then the phone calls started. My number was still in the book at that particular time, so anybody could get it and the phone was ringing 24 hours a day. It was constant. People were ringing me who I couldn’t understand because of their accents. All sorts of nationalities. Lots of Americans. It was absolutely unbelievable if I’m being honest.’ She is self-deprecating about why she should have caused such a furore. ‘A woman who went on with mad hair, bushy eyebrows and the frock I was wearing had to be noticed. Come on!’

Such is the quick nature of today’s star system, in September, just four months after her TV debut, Susan Boyle made her live TV comeback. She performed a rarefied take on The Rolling Stones Wild Horses, re-orchestrated to gently clasp the exact timbre of her natural talent, on the show’s US cousin, America’s Got Talent. An unprompted standing ovation followed. Outside of the unruly cyclone of her fame, there is something within the voice of Susan Boyle that is absolutely perfect for our times. At a moment when Dame Vera Lynn and Barbra Streisand are topping the album charts, there is something peculiarly modern about her improbably status as holding the international record for most pre-ordered album of all time. As the dust settles on the sheer wattage of conversation that she has prompted, it is time – as they say – to face the music.

Ms Boyle’s debut album was put together during the summer of this year. She first entered a recording studio in July in Edinburgh, to test how her vocals would respond to tape. The results shocked both her and veteran producer Steve Mac. Decamping to London, she fashioned the record over two months, picking songs that resonated with her, that pricked something within that she felt ready to unleash through music. ‘It was important that I could feel everything I was singing,’ she says, cutting straight to the core of why music can be such a useful release, an escape valve from the everyday.

A disarming mix of the sacred (‘My faith is my backbone,’ she says) and the secular, there is not a moment on it that is not moving. It is pitched exactly within the framework of the year she has enjoyed and, at well-documented times, endured. It is a collection of covers and original material that cuts a swathe into the interior life of the woman who is arguably the most intriguing, not to mention instantly recognisable character yet to be produced by the reality talent medium, the decade’s defining TV genre.

When she hurts, it hurts. Her rousing rendition of Madonna’s You’ll See is a riposte to the children that picked on her in the playground. The new composition Who I Was Born To Be is an astonishing testament to self-belief against some startling odds. Yet when she dreams, we dream too. Because of her uncanny knack of picking a song so perfect for her tale at that very first audition, Ms Boyle has become synonymous with the word ‘dream’. Her flawless album rendition of I Dreamed A Dream may come as no surprise, but it still manages to pick every individual hair from the back of your neck and yank them to attention. A country ballad version of Daydream Believer delicately seals the deal of her being synonymous with the concept of dreaming.

For this is Susan Boyle’s tale. The fearlessness to dream about something other than the lot life has handed you. The chance to escape. The pivotal role of music as a conduit to go to another place, sometimes lodged at the outer recesses of your imagination, and to allow that new place to blossom. Yes, this is Susan Boyle’s tale. It is why it connected with so many unsuspecting people across the world. In another nutshell? If she can dare to dream, so can you.

Afghan Election Results Need To: Clinton

November 19, 2009 by lee  
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KABUL: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that the international community will support the embattled Afghan government, but expects it to build up the country’s defense forces, boost security and improve the lives of its impoverished people.
Afghan Election Results Need To Clinton
Clinton met at the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy with foreign ministers from about a dozen nations who are in the capital to attend Thursday’s inauguration of Hamid Karzai, who won a second presidential term following an election marred by fraud.

She met with Karzai for about 90 minutes Wednesday night at the presidential palace.

“I think that there’s a very clear understanding, on the part of not only President Karzai but his government, that results of this election have to be seen and felt in the lives of the people of Afghanistan,” she said, sitting in a circle of chairs with diplomatic officials from Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, Japan and a host of other nations.

She said the Karzai government understands the international community is “willing to support and encourage the next years of effort of the people and government of Afghanistan, but that we expect outcomes that deliver on security, the buildup of an Afghan national security force as well as a national police force, tangible benefits that flow to the people of Afghanistan and an accountable, transparent government _ as far as that can be obtained _ as well as a strong stand against corruption.”

The meeting, hosted by U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, came before the diplomats were to leave for the palace to attend the inaugural, being held under tight security in the capital.

Clinton said in her conversations with some members of Karzai’s Cabinet, she was reassured by the work that was being done in the ministries of agriculture, education, intelligence and finance. Karzai has not announced members of his new Cabinet.

Before entering the meeting, Clinton joked with reporters, telling them they needed to try Afghanistan’s pomegranate juice.

“It lowers your cholesterol,” she said.

Afghanistan officials hope the export of its pomegranates will raise the sweet, red fruit’s cachet and provide its farmers with a lucrative alternative to growing opium, a raw ingredient in heroin. The U.S. has funded an initiative to modernize and expand Afghanistan’s pomegranate industry, which has long depended on domestic sales and small-scale exports to nearby countries.

Britain Offers to Hold the Summit on Afghanistan

November 17, 2009 by lee  
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday that he would like to host a summit next year to chart a timetable for the handover of security in various regions of Afghanistan to the Afghan government, with an eye toward the withdrawal of NATO forces from country.
Britain Offers to Hold the Summit on Afghanistan
In the traditional prime minister’s speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet in London, Brown said he has offered London as a venue for an international conference next year to map out the international community’s next steps in Afghanistan.

“I want that conference to chart a comprehensive political framework within which the military strategy can be accomplished,” said Gordon Brown.

“A strong political framework should embrace internal political reform and ensure representative government that works for all Afghan citizens at the national level in Kabul and also at the provinces and districts.”

The British prime minister said he hopes such a conference would result in concrete actions for handing over security operations in parts of Afghanistan back to the Afghan government.

“It should identify a process for transferring district by district to full Afghan control,” he said.

“And if at all possible, we should set a timetable for transferring districts to Afghan control starting next year in 2010.”

Brown said British forces are needed in Afghanistan because terrorists there and in neighbouring Pakistan would otherwise attack Britain.

The British prime minister said he believes that an accountable Afghan government and viable army and police force need to be in place before international forces withdraw.

“It is only when the Afghans are able to defend the security of their own people and deny the territory of Afghanistan as a base for terrorists that our strategy of Afghnization will have succeeded and our troops can come home,” said Brown.

Brown’s speech came as the bodies of two British servicemen killed in Afghanistan were flown home to Britain and the death of another in Afghanistan was announced.

Susan Boyle Makeover Photos

November 16, 2009 by lee  
Filed under U.S. News

Susan Boyle Makeover Photos: Susan Boyle is undoubtedly the biggest surprise loser in the recent past, not only this year. The singer, who came to the scene with a heartbreaking performance while auditioning for Britain’s Got Talent, is now preparing for the release of their debut album, the much publicized “I dreamed a dream,” which hits stores on 23 November. For the last time before this happens, we talk openly about her mental breakdown earlier this year in an interview with the Daily Mail
Susan Boyle Makeover PhotosFor those who have not seen in a while, they might also note that Boyle’s law, Susan of today is not terribly nervous as the woman who took the stage to be ahead of surprise and, finally, the music mogul Simon Cowell and his panel of judges. Of course, in substance and in their relationships with others, Susan is still the same painfully Blunt and direct woman who makes a very strong point to be honest in all circumstances. Is your appearance has changed – but not for Vanity, Susan explained by mail.

“I was tired of being called that.” Boyle says of the “alias Hairy Angel” was once caught with that shot to international fame instantly. “I did not know how I looked on TV until I was in Britain’s Got Talent. I saw this morning with wifey crazy hair and bushy eyebrows and said,” Hmmm, not really photogenic. So I decided to spruce me a bit. When I look in the mirror, I see this sophisticated lady. I’m still a little like that early in the bourgeois interior, but more refined in some respects. I think any woman would do the same. Would you like to see as the Angel Hairy? I think not. “Says the singer and the makeover.

She has not changed, however, and will not do in the future. To begin, I wanted too bad for a singer to fame comes to mind, he says. Second, although only the beginning of his career, which almost saw it all go down the drain when he had a mental breakdown earlier this year and had to be admitted to the Convent, the famous London clinic for mental health for some R & R. Fame can do that one, Susan states, because there is so much pressure from all sides that someone who is new to The Game, as it can only crack under it.
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Brittany Hollenbach Death

November 13, 2009 by lee  
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Brittany Hollenbach Deathlatest news about, Brittany Hollenbach death, traffic accidents are a major cause of death in the country. Hollenbach Britain was just 22 and a Richland High School Graduate.She was intelligent, loving, talented and brilliant and beautiful young spirit was also very active in college. He attended the University of Washington. Tri-Delta will hold an event in his memory. His friends and fellow guild members have also devoted a face book page to its name.

According to initial reports Britain Hollenbach went with four of his friends. Obviously, friends who had plans to stay late at night. It was a little after 12:00 hours, as he hurried to cross a street, a car collided at full speed. He received head injuries which are believed to be difficult to treat, as the brain swells after impact, making it almost impossible to stop internal bleeding. He was immediately taken to the nearby Harborview Medical Center by employees of the Seattle Fire Department.

The car was later identified as a Honda Civic. The driver was also arrested, but not under the influence of any intoxication or have impaired driving ability due to any cause.

Hollenbach Birittany died this afternoon. Police are still investigating the case and will keep you informed of current news available.
Source: apakistannews.com

Love-struck Russell Brand to quit Britain for America?

November 12, 2009 by admin  
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Russell Brand has reportedly put his London house for sale, sparking rumors that he will relocate to America with his girlfriend/singer Katy Perry.

Clinton to Tackle Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan on New Trip

November 8, 2009 by lee  
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WASHINGTON : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left on Sunday for Europe and Asia largely to consult with US partners on curbing North Korea’s and Iran’s nuclear ambitions as well as on stabilizing Afghanistan.
Clinton to Tackle Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan on New Trip
A plane carrying Clinton and her aides took off from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington at about 00:15 am (0515 GMT).

The chief US diplomat was to give a speech in Berlin on Sunday before joining German Chancelor Angela Merkel and other world leaders in celebrations on Monday for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In a preview of her visit, Clinton told a Washington audience on Friday that the wall’s fall marked the end of a Cold War era in which the world was divided into clear blocs.

“So we find ourselves now in a much more complex world, and we just have to be up for it and we have to be smarter about it,” Clinton said. “And we have to demand more from ourselves and our partners.”

President Barack Obama’s adminstration, despite the adulation he enjoys in western Europe after the departure of his predecessor George W. Bush, is struggling to obtain more support from European partners in Afghanistan.

Clinton’s visit comes as the Obama administration pursues a weeks-long internal debate about a new strategy for Afghanistan, where Taliban rebels are gaining ground.

A senior State Department official told AFP on condition of anonymity that Afghanistan will be a key topic when Clinton meets Merkel, her foreign minister Guido Westerwelle and counterparts from other European nations.

It is a main issue “because again we are looking to coordinate closely with our allies to try to help figure out the best way forward, that all of can contribute to stabilizing Afghanistan,” the official said.

Germany, which has 4,200 troops in Afghanistan, has come under fire from its allies for refusing combat missions there.

Clinton, the US official said, will also pursue multilateral diplomatic efforts to curb Iran’s and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions during her stop in Berlin as well as her visit to Singapore and China afterward.

The United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany are partners in negotiations with Iran aimed at halting Tehran’s uranium enrichment program — which western countries fear masks efforts to build a bomb.

Russia and China, which have strong economic links with Iran, have been more reluctant to impose sanctions on Iran for its defiance, but Washington sees signs that Moscow is changing course.

The six powers are awaiting a response from Tehran that calls for Iran to export to Russia more than 2,640 pounds (1,200 kilos) of its 3.5 percent, low-enriched uranium (LEU) for refining up to 20 percent, to fuel a Tehran reactor that makes medical isotopes.

France would then fashion the material into fuel rods for the reactor.

During her stop in Germany, Clinton is expected to discuss Iran with Washington’s partners, except possibly China which is not expected to send its foreign minister to Berlin, the US official said.

North Korea’s weapons-grade nuclear program is also likely to be raised in Berlin as Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, a key player in the diplomacy over North Korea, is due in the German capital.

The United States, Russia, China, South Korea, North Korea, and Japan are partners in the so-called six party talks that Pyongyang bolted in April after the United Nations censured it for a long-range rocket launch.

North Korea then tested a nuclear weapon a month later, but insists it is ready to return to the talks following face-to-face meetings with the United States.

The issue will come up during Clinton’s private meetings with her Asian partners during her visit to Singapore from November 10-12 for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministerial meeting, the official said.

“There’s no bigger issue to Asian security right now than North Korea’s nuclear program,” the official added.

She will also travel to the Philippines but return to Singapore on November 13 to join Obama at the APEC summit, aides said.

The chief US diplomat and Obama will then travel together in China, which chairs the six-party negotiations, from November 15-18.

Support for Fade-Afghan War in the UK: Survey

November 8, 2009 by lee  
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LONDON: Public support for the war in Afghanistan is falling, while more than 40 percent do not understand why British troops are fighting there, a poll released on Remembrance Sunday showed.
Support for Fade-Afghan War in the UK Survey
Some 64 percent agreed that “the war in Afghanistan is un-winnable”, up six percent from July, while 27 percent disagreed, down four percent. Ten percent said they did not know.

Similar numbers said British forces should be withdrawn as quickly as possible, with 63 percent agreeing and 31 percent disagreeing.

Some 54 percent felt they had “a good understanding of the purpose of Britain’s mission in Afghanistan”, with 42 percent disagreeing.

“Overall there is the sense that Afghanistan is becoming for Gordon Brown what Iraq became for his predecessor Tony Blair,” said Andrew Hawkins, chief executive of pollsters ComRes.

“More than four in 10 don’t understand Britain’s mission; support for the British presence there is ebbing away, and a majority have responded to the presidential election very negatively indeed.

“The results suggest that the impact of the war must be having an impact on Labour support, since it is that party’s core supporters who are most strongly opposed to it.”

Meanwhile 52 percent agreed: “the levels of corruption involved in the recent presidential election show the war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting for.” Thirty-six percent disagreed.

“This is potentially devastating for the government’s case for war,” said Hawkins.

Zenyatta Breeders Cup

November 8, 2009 by lee  
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Zenyatta Breeders Cup, Zenyatta overcame early problems to prevent children in the $ 5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday, running their record to 14-0 in the most impressive effort of his career.
Zenyatta Breeders Cup
The 5-year-old filly rallied from last, after a poor start and fought Gio Ponti in the final straight to win by a length at Santa Anita, beating a field of 11 men charged and become the first woman win the Classic in its 26 year history.

“There are tears in my eyes. I can not believe it,” said trainer John Shirreffs, who avoided a box to see his star horse near the rail line.

Quality of roads scratched out the door after having worked and scraped his back leg, delaying the start of several minutes. Zenyatta initially ignored when it came time to enter the door, and all the commotion that explains their poor start.

She broke the wrong foot and fell far behind the field and the Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith left Zenyatta Lope along near the back – his usual running style in the early stages.

“Halfway through pole miles, I thought, ‘Oh God, that are stacked. There is no way I’m going to go all these horses,” Smith said.

Rounding the final turn, Zenyatta still had much ground to make up on leaders and their chances looked bleak.

“If he wins this, it will be a super horse,” announcer Trevor Denman, cried in a call.

Zenyatta then made a bold move on the inside half of the far turn, and Smith, the angle at the outer end, as the crowd of 58,845 fans erupted.

Displaying the sand of a champion undefeated Zenyatta relentlessly closed and denied discomfort Gio Ponti. Smith raised his left arm as the platform for Zenyatta galloped possibly the last time in his sterling career.

Owners Jerry and Ann Moss said Zenyatta, named for the 1980 album “Zenyatta mondata” by police, is likely to go to the breeding shed next year.

“I think she deserves to go out with his record intact now,” Jerry Moss.

Zenyatta ran 1 1 / 4 miles in 2:00.62 and paid $ 7.60, $ 5.60 and $ 3.80 as the favorite of 5-2.

“She’s sent from heaven,” said Smith, who lovingly stroked her mane Zenyatta on the way out the door. “She is amazing. I still did not reach all the arts.”

Gio Ponti returned $ 9.20 and $ 6.60, while Britain race twice paid $ 7 to show.

“The horse ran a great race, but could not beat the winner,” said Christophe Clement, who trains Gio Ponti. “She is a monster. What can I say?”

More than $ 1 million bet to win on both Zenyatta and 3-1 second choice of Rip Van Winkle, an import from Ireland, who finished 10th.

Belmont Stakes winner Summer Bird was fourth and Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird session, extending his streak to five straight games since their 50-1 upset on the first Saturday in May.

Zenyatta was the star of the show, prancing as she marched past the grandstand on their way to the door. Fans rose pink signs reading “Girl power! Go Zenyatta and roared when local hero came through the tunnel and climbed to the synthetic track.

“The way she took the crowd was unbelievable,” said Shirreffs. “He was glad for her, applauding her, he loves her. What a wonderful relationship.”

Zenyatta Mosses decided to enter the Classic instead of trying to defend his title in the $ 2 million Ladies Classic ‘on Friday.

Their presence gave a big boost for the signature event of the two world championships today, he needed another female star of the year, Rachel Alexandra.

The 3 year old filly was 8 of 8 this year, including three victories against children, which comes in the Preakness Stakes. But the owner Rachel Alexandra, Jess Jackson, shut down the season instead of running it on the synthetic surface, which does not like.

The debate had been raging in the week prior to the classic about whether Zenyatta could handle an international field of boys and possibly snatch Horse of the Year honors Rachel Alexandra. The only argument that intensifies after his explosive performance.

“If not rewarded with the Horse of the Year, would be a travesty, or at least co-Horse of the Year,” said Bob Baffert, who trained the sixth place finisher Richard Kid. “It was the only time a race horse would not mind beating on a great race. Zenyatta made Breeders’ Cup, and how to win! I’ve never seen a crowd so enthralled.

Smith, Zenyatta approved by the top honor, last won by a woman in 2002 with Azeri, who was also ridden by Smith.

“She’s the horse of the decade so far,” he said. “She should be down in history as one of the greatest horses of all time.”

Colonel John was fifth, followed by Kid Richard, Awesome Gem, Regal Ransom, mines that bird, Rip Van Winkle, Einstein and Girolamo.

American horses won eight victories in the two-day championships, with European-based horses winning six, one better than last year’s total.

Goldikova import of Ireland successfully defended his title in the $ 2 million Mile against 10 male rivals. Another Irish horse, Conduit, repeated in the grass $ 3 million, and rushed Turf won 1 million U.S. dollars for children.

Three geldings won races – Flag of California in the Turf Sprint 1 million U.S. dollars; Dancing in silks in the Sprint $ 2 million and further from the earth in the Mile 1 million U.S. dollars of land.

Vale of York, part of the European division of Godolphin Racing, won the $ 2 million Juvenile.
Source: apakistannews.com

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