Monthly Archives: December 2010

Racing news: Trainer Tony Balding awarded an OBE

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GRAND National-winning trainer Toby Balding has been awarded an OBE for his services to racing in the New Year Honours List. Balding, 74, not only won the world's greatest steeplechase twice with Highland Wedding (1969) and Little Polveir (1989), but had the rare distinction of claiming the two other biggest races in the National Hunt calendar. The Cheltenham Gold Cup went his way with Cool Ground in 1992 and he saddled two winners of the Champion Hurdle, Beech Road (1989) and Morley Street Read more [...]

Saints list six as questionable for Bucs game, including Colston, Thomas

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Bradley Handwerger / Eyewitness Sports METAIRIE, La. ― Six Saints players were listed as questionable for Sunday’s noon home game against Tampa Bay, including running back Pierre Thomas and receiver Marques Colston. Thomas, who appeared to tweak his ankle during Friday’s practice during the media's 20-minute viewing window, was listed on the injury report as limited, his first time on the report since the week of the Dec. 12 Rams game. Head Coach Sean Payton, Read more [...]

Three companies short listed to take over GCD

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Akwatia, Dec. 31, GNA - Three companies, Great Consolidated Diamond Limited, Jowac Company Limited and Balaji Limited, had been short listed to take-over the Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Limited (GCD), at Akwatia.      Addressing workers of the GCD, at Akwatia, during the Christmas holidays, the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Baba Jamal said originally, 30 companies showed interest and applied but only 18 put in bids, with the three meeting the criteria and Read more [...]

Motspur a knockout chance

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BROADMEADOW trainer Kris Lees rates his galloper Motspur a knockout chance in the listed Carrington Stakes (1100metres) at Randwick this afternoon.The eight-year-old is his only runner at the meeting and has been freshened since his latest outing, when he worked home well against the bias to finish sixth in a Benchmark 95 (1100m) at Rosehill on December 4.‘‘He is drawn unfavourably but I think that he is capable up in this grade,’’ Lees said.‘‘There are a couple of smart ones in Read more [...]

Cowboys QB Kitna doesn’t practise, listed as questionable for finale

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IRVING, Texas - Jon Kitna is listed as questionable for the Dallas Cowboys' season finale. He did not practise Friday, increasing the odds that quarterback Stephen McGee will make the first start of his NFL career Sunday in Philadelphia. Kitna hasn't practised all week because of a muscle in his side that hurts when he throws. Interim coach Jason Garrett said Kitna will make the trip to Philadelphia, so it's still possible he could play and perhaps Read more [...]

Favre listed as doubtful for planned farewell game

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Dec 31, 2010 (AFP) - Brett Favre was listed on Friday by the Minnesota Vikings as doubtful for the team’s matchup Sunday at Detroit, in what was expected to be the final game of Favre’s 20-year career.The 41-year-old quarterback, who has unretired for the past three years to extend his historic National Football League career, has vowed that this will be his final season.Favre, the NFL’s all-time passing leader in most major categories, had a 297-game Read more [...]

Blaze-hit college bids to rebuild house

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Blaze-hit college bids to rebuild house 5:40pm Friday 31st December 2010 Print Email Share Comments(0) MALVERN College has put in a new planning application to rebuild a boarding house that was gutted by fire last spring. The Number Six House, off Thirlstane Road, was badly damaged in the blaze on April 10, which destroyed the housemistress’s accommodation and the dining hall. A planning application Read more [...]

Starafrica seeks to offload Red Star

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TRADE in Red Star Holdings Ltd stock was suspended last week after the company asked the ZSE to hold transaction in the company pending a possible sale of the retail chain. Starafricacorporation, Red Star’s holding company, was supposed to delist from the ZSE last week before the suspension. “Application has been made to suspend rather than delist the Red Star shares on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange to facilitate the possible sale of the listed holding company as part of the ongoing restructuring Read more [...]

City Room: Big Deal | Sale of Duke Mansion Brings a Lawsuit

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The Duke Semans mansion on Fifth Avenue was sold for $44 million to Carlos Slim Helú. The sale in a down market was eye-popping: $44 million, in July, for a town house that had sold for $40 million in 2006. It was the city’s biggest residential sale of 2010, and the fourth-highest price on record for a town house, according to city property data. The backstory has a winding plot worthy of an HBO or Showtime series. The stars are the Duke tobacco family’s Fifth Avenue mansion; an immigrant cabdriver Read more [...]