Neeme Jarvi looks as though he knows what a dance is supposed to be about. On the podium of the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center on Thursday night, starting Glazunov’s Concert Waltz, the Estonian conductor moved his whole body with a big man’s buoyant grace even before the music began, conveying a sense of being at once debonair and slightly lumbering, which the orchestra mirrored perfectly. A waltz like this, all honeyed tunes and arabesques, is supposed to make you want to move your body. It’s even better when executed with absolute virtuosity so that its details convey not only prettiness but also humor. If the NSO didn’t quite achieve that, it showed it knew how to make the waltz fly. Read full article > >

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From Estonia to NSO, conductor Neeme Jarvi wins with all-Russian war horses

Neeme Jarvi looks as though he knows what a dance is supposed to be about. On the podium of the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center on Thursday night, starting Glazunov’s Concert Waltz, the Estonian conductor moved his whole body with a big man’s buoyant grace even before the music began, conveying a sense of being at once debonair and slightly lumbering, which the orchestra mirrored perfectly. A waltz like this, all honeyed tunes and arabesques, is supposed to make you want to move your body. It’s even better when executed with absolute virtuosity so that its details convey not only prettiness but also humor. If the NSO didn’t quite achieve that, it showed it knew how to make the waltz fly. Read full article > >

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From Estonia to NSO, conductor Neeme Jarvi wins with all-Russian war horses

A $700,000 red-brick, five-stall barn near the zoo will house horses for parks department patrol officers.

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Central Park, Built for and With the Help of Horses, Will Again Offer Them a Home

Six racehorses died after a passing driver flicked a cigarette into their trailer, causing the hay around them to catch fire. They were being driven to their first start of the season at the Belmont Park racetrack in Long Island, New York; the trip had…

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Six Racehorses Burn to Death

Last year’s winner Don’t Push It tops the weights as 40 horses are set to contest the 164th Grand National at Aintree on Saturday.

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Aintree primed for Grand National

Royal Rosa, Skippers Brig and Golden Kite are the last horses to make the 40-strong field declared for Saturday’s Grand National at Aintree.

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Field declared for Grand National

The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation has been so slow in paying for the upkeep of horses that scores have wound up neglected, according to interviews and inspection reports.

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Ex-Racehorses Starve as Charity Fails in Mission to Care for Them

Sizing Europe powers home to win Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival as Irish-trained horses win six of the day’s seven races.

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Sizing Europe wins Champion Chase

About 60 jumpers and their horses took part in a competition in Herndon on Sunday.

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Just Jumper Horse Show held in Virginia

Horses are not something you expect to see in the middle of a built-up housing estate, but one community in Bradford has more than 100 animals grazing on its patches of grass.

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VIDEO: Housing estate home to dozens of horses

Budget-crunched police departments across the country are retiring their horses and closing their stables.

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Police Departments Downsize, From 4 Legs to 2

Officials at Newbury racecourse are considering whether to rearrange Saturday’s meeting which was abandoned after the deaths of two horses in the paddock area.

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Newbury ponders rescheduled card

Nicky Henderson believes his horse Kid Cassidy was ‘extremely lucky’ to have escaped death after two other horses died in the paddock at Newbury on Saturday.

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Newbury horse ‘lucky to survive’

Trainer Nicky Henderson says the deaths of two horses at Newbury racecourse was “horrific” and speculates that electrocution may have been the cause.

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An investigation is launched after two horses die in the paddock at Newbury amid fears of electrocution.

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Inquiry launched after horses die