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Our Third Delight Dies
AQHA Dam of Distinction Our Third Delight (Reb’s Policy TB-Tiny’s Delight, Tiny Watch) died Jan. 12 at the age of 31. On the track, Our Third Delight was fourth in the Dash For Cash Futurity-G1 and earned over $53,000. She produced the earners of over $1.4 million, including Champions Tres Seis and Dean Miracle, as well as Broodmare of the Year/AQHA Dam of Distinction Fortune Of Delight, who is the dam of Champions A Delightful Dasher and Hes My Dasher. Our Third Delight is also the great-granddam of Champion Inseperable.
Our Third Delight was owned for most of her life by Mrs. Gwendolyn Eaves, who bought her as a yearling from breeders John Colville and Ray Olds. At the time of Our Third Delight’s death, she was owned by Eaves Horses Family Ltd. Partnership, which is managed by Mrs. Eaves’ granddaughter Meredith Copeland.
Our Third Delight is buried at Eaves Horse Farm in Midland, Texas, where trees will be planted for the three Champions
she produced, and rose bushes for the Champions of which she is the granddam or great-granddam.
Texas Sales Tax On Use Of Horses
The January Texas Sales And Use Tax Bulletin helps farmers and ranchers determine which purchases are exempt from sales tax and to adhere to the new rules passed for 2012 to ensure products are used in an exempt man- ner. Purchasers of agricultural items are now required to provide sellers a new exemption certificate to cover purchases not already exempted by law, such as fertilizers, medica- tions for animals, and machinery used exclu- sively to produce grass or feed, or in building or maintaining farm and ranch roads.
Items always exempt from Texas sales tax in which no new exemption certificate is required include such things as the sale of
horses, the sale of horse feed, as well as horse transportation, boarding, veterinary medi-
cal services, farrier services, horse training
and stud services. Other items can qualify
for exemption if used exclusively on a farm
or ranch or to produce horses for sale, such
as saddles, bridles, troughs, fences, walkers, electricity, and certain services and equipment. Farm vehicles and trailers fall under a different tax code. For more information visit www. window.state.tx.us or www.getreadytexas.org, or call 1-800-252-5555 or 1-800-531-1441.
Prairie Meadows To Host Challenge Races
The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission approved an extended 27-day Quarter Horse Meet to run at Prairie Meadows from August
18 through Oct. 27. The Altoona, Iowa, track
will cap off the meet by hosting the Challenge Championship races on Oct. 27. Six races worth over a combined $1 million will be contested for horses that earned berths by winning regional qualifying races from across the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Brazil. In addition to the Challenge Championship races, the AQHA will have its four-day convention at Prairie Meadows at the same time. Prairie Meadows will also host the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association conference from June 28 through July 1.
AQHA Director Emeritus Carruthers Dies
AQHA Director Emeritus Charles Allan “Al” Carruthers passed away Jan. 8. Born in 1930 in Butte, Montana, Carruthers was a U.S. Marine, a 32nd-Degree Mason, a successful business- man, and a beloved husband and father. His love of raising, training and racing Quarter Horses
is legendary. He was president of the Montana Board of Horse Racing and was elected to the AQHA Board of Director, where he eventually was recognized as a Director Emeritus.
Former Los Al Co-Owner Arnold Dies
Longtime Standardbred owner Lloyd Arnold, 83, died Jan. 8. Arnold became co-owner of Los Alamitos in 1989 after pay- ing $72 million to Hollywood Park Realty Enterprises. He promoted racing at the California facility until he retired as racetrack operator in 1992. He eventually sold his share of Los Alamitos to current sole owner Ed Allred. Arnold raced horses throughout the 1960s and ‘70s, and he and Allred co-owned World Champion Pacer Mare Sanabelle Island, who earned $1.5 million. Arnold received the Owner of the Year Award from the U.S. Harness Writers’ Association in 2001.
I Like The Odds Dies
Three-year-old gelding I Like The Odds (Corona Cartel-Fancys First Affair, First Down Dash), winner of the 2011 Grade 1 $2,036,300 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity, was eutha- nized at San Luis Rey Equine Center Jan. 13. Owned by Tom Bradbury, Kim Kessinger and Howard Nichols, I Like The Odds is believed to have been bitten by a spider, which resulted in laminits in both feet. I Like The Odds, who was trained by Joe Bassett, won three of seven starts and earned $911,606. He was named Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association Champion Two-Year-Old Gelding and Los Alamitos Champion Two-Year-Old Gelding.
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2012 World Chariot Racing Finals
The 2012 World Championship Cutter
& Chariot Racing Association’s World Championship will be held the last two week- ends in March. The World Championship final divisions will be held March 23 through 25 at Weber County Fairgrounds in Ogden, Utah. For more information visit www.inter- mountainhorseracing.com.
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