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JOCKEY GARY STEVENS ANNOUNCES COMEBACK ON HRTV, HALL OF FAMER NAMED TO RIDE SUNDAY AT SANTA ANITA, SAYS HE’S FIT, HEALTHY AND READY

 ARCADIA , Calif. (Jan. 3, 2013)—After a seven year hiatus, retired Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens , 49, and a winner of three Kentucky Derbies, announced Thursday on HRTV that he would return to the saddle this Sunday in Santa Anita’s 6th race.

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Entertainment Horse Happenings Music

GARY ALLAN AND JOE’S BAR DONATE MONEY RAISEDAT DECEMBER 15TH SHOW TO ACM LIFTING LIVES®

Encino, CA (January 3, 2013) – Singer-songwriter Gary Allan headlined Joe’s Bar on Saturday, December 15thwith a portion of the proceeds benefitting ACM Lifting Lives, the charitable arm of the Academy of Country Music.  The show raised more than $11,000 for ACM Lifting Lives, which will go to help fund organizations that are improving lives through the power of music.  Gary Allan has previously been involved as a volunteer artist in ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp, held annually for campers with developmental disabilities in Nashville, TN.

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Events Horse Happenings Western

PRCA Weekly Press Release- Jan 2, 2013

1. Elder Cooper brother ties up late holiday gift

            MESQUITE, Texas – Clint Cooper clearly doesn’t mean to miss another Las Vegas reunion with his younger brothers.

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Horse Happenings Travel United States

Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Tom Mix Monument (Florence, Arizona)

Near this spot on Highway 89, the great cowboy movie actor Tom Mix died in a fatal one- car crash on October 12, 1940. He went out of the world as he had lives: fast and rolling in money.

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Horse Happenings Travel United States

Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Santo Domingo Trading Post (Domingo, New Mexico)

Here’s the place to stock up on rubber tom-toms, child sixe feathered war bonnets, and deerskin moccasins in styles that haven’t changed since Lucy and Desi traveled West with the Merzes.

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Horse Happenings Travel United States

Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Salt Palace (Grand Saline, Texas)

“We are the only salt house in North America,” said the woman in charge of the Salt Palace, and when we asked about salt houses on other continents she admitted that she had heard of none. So this may be the only salt house on earth!