Uncle Mo will start from the No. 12 post position as the favorite to win the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, the richest thoroughbred horse race in North America. Uncle Mo, trained by Todd Pletcher and ridden by John Velazquez, was given 5-2 odds by Mike Battaglia, handicapper for Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky. Uncle Mo won last year’s Breeder’s Cup Juvenile, a 1 1/16th-mile race for 2-year-olds. He will compete against 12 horses in the 1 1/4-mile Read more [...]

31 October 2011 Last updated at 11:17 GMT Members of the team who recovered the objects with part of a propeller blade An engine was among almost 50 items recovered from the wreck of a World War II Lancaster bomber, a Ministry of Defence (MoD) report has revealed. Six Royal Australian Air Force personnel and an RAF crewman died when the aircraft came down on Balavil Estate, near Kingussie. Read more [...]

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has been urged to review the current listing and post-listing requirements of the Exchange and create a mechanism that will allow free entry of new companies into the Exchange and free exit of existing ones. An Investment analyst and Managing Director, Cowry Asset Management Limited, Mr. Jonson Chukwu, who made the appeal in a chat with Leadership, said there was also the need to create incentives Read more [...]