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October 27, 2008 |
Horses at work and at play
The 2008 Breeders' Cup World Championships were held last weekend at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Horses and jockeys raced 14 championship races of differing grades and surfaces, and prizes totalling $25.5 milllion were awarded. Collected here are photos from the Breeders' Cup, and several others, taking a look at horses in the news around the world recently, at work and at play. (25 photos total)

A man harvests salt in a lake some 20km (12 miles) northwest of Baku, Azerbaijan on October 17, 2008. Locals harvest table salt from the natural lake using horses and trucks that last no longer than one year due to the daily exposure to saline water, workers said. A 50kg sack of the salt sells for about 1 Manat ($1.23) on the local market. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin) #

A police officer feeds a 5-day-old foal born from a mare recently imported from Argentina at a training base for Colombia's National Police Carabineros squad in Mancilla, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. The Colombian police purchased 1,900 horses from Argentina worth around 11 million dollars to renew the stables of its mounted police. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) #

A South African boy jumps an obstacle as he rides on August 21, 2008 a horse during a riding lesson at the Soweto Riding School in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. The Soweto Riding School is the brainchild of 63-year-old Enos Mafokate, South Africa's first black show jumper, who fell in love with the sport as a horse-mad boy hoping for a chance to look after the horses of picnicking whites. (GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images) #

A wild horse grazes on one of the dirt roads on Cumberland Island, Georgia National Seashore, Saturday, September 20, 2008. Herds of wild horses run loose on the 17 mile long island once owned by the Carnegie family and made famous by the wedding of John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1996. The National Park Service is looking at starting vehicle tours to the north end of Cumberland Island, Georgia beginning next year in accordance with a mandate from congress to increase accessibility in the national seashore area. (AP Photo/Chris Viola) #
More links and information
Breeders' Cup - Official Site
Breeders' Cup - Wikipedia entry
Spanish Riding School - Vienna, traditional RIDING school for Lipizzaner horses