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  "BAAEED" - The Best Racehorse in the World

August 20, 2022

"BAAEED" the racehorse (a son of the great champion racehorse "Sea The Stars") won his 10th victory in the Juddmonte International race at York in England on Wednesday 17th August 2022.

The "best racehorse in the world" has now scored 10 wins in 10 runs since June of last year.

9 of his victories were over a distance of 1 mile (8 furlongs).  The 10th race was over an extended distance of 10 furlongs.

Some experts feared that the extra distance might be a problem but Baaeed's run was better than ever as he won by a distance of 6½ lengths from the highly-rated horse Mishriff who was ridden by James Doyle.  Jim Crowley was on Baaeed.

[video=https://www.racingtv.com/news/unbeaten-baaeed-seals-superstar-status-with-international-domination]

"Sea The Stars" (described as "a horse of a lifetime") won the famous "Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe" race (12 furlongs) in Longchamp, Paris on 4th October 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD_ALPiOdsg

Many people are now imploring Baaeed's owner (the daughter of a late Sheikh) to run him in the same famous race in Paris before his retirement for breeding purposes later this year - the same final race that his illustrious sire won 13 years ago.

  Maintenance of Posting Photo & Video Links

June 25, 2021

Dear Friends,

As Bernd30 in Germany wrote below 4 years ago, pictures links etc can be suddenly lost.  In the Lea De Mae main topic "Remember me", this was opened 16½ years ago on 10th December 2004, the day after lovely Lea (Andrea) passed away in Prague at the age of only 27 years.

571,782 viewings of this topic have been made since that day. I am sure that modest Lea would have been surprised at the affection shown by so many people in various countries - she cried when she heard that people wanted to send cash to help her in her medical situation.

I have a favour to ask of the Moderators who are still active to please check and maintain the main topics that I started for Silvia, Monica and Lea where there are a lot of photos videos links etc from time to time and make any corrections.   I have recently been through all 18 pages of the main Lea topic and made corrections or replaced non-working links wherever possible.  On some other sites, where links have been lost, you get blanks or similar and it doesn't look nice.   Where there are film clips, sometimes these get withdrawn but usually you can find a similar replacement one. If not, I have altered the posting to rectify this. 

I think that most of the photos & wallpapers/posters that I have displayed within various postings are not actually stored on sites like those mentioned by Bernd30 so should be OK as long as this site itself is still available on the Web, so it may be just a few future corrections/replacements will be needed here and there now and again in my absence.

I have also been through the 6 pages of the "Cool Silvia Wallpapers!!" topic started by Fira 15 years ago and which has received 221,645 viewings to date and it seems to be in good order.

Best wishes and Good health to all,

Vic June 25 2021.

  imagebam and imgbox will close down on June 30, 2017

June 15, 2017

Hi all,

as you may already know the two picture hosting sites imagebam.com and imgbox.com will close down on June 30, 2017, see http://www.imagebam.com/ and https://imgbox.com/ . For some forums this will be a terrible loss because they will get suddenly a gazillion of threads without pictures. For us here the effect will be less extreme because many of us posted their pictures directly into the forum or used hosters different from imagebam and imgbox. But still we would get some empty postings.

So my question is: What should we do in the next two weeks to cope with this problem? Should we do anything at all? Or should we simply let things go their way and take it as fate?

Of course I could try to write a bot to identify the concerning postings, then download the pictures (by hand) from imagebam/imgbox, re-upload them (by hand) elsewhere and correct the links to these new addresses. But this could become much work for a single person and I would like to evade this.

Please tell me what you think and what are your ideas to this subject. Particularly, if you have some experience in programming or if you know another method to avoid the cumbersome method sketched in the paragraph above. We are not the only ones with this problem, so maybe you know a viable solution from some other forum.

Greetings
Bernd

  PRAGUE PROTON BEAM TREATMENT SAVES LITTLE BOY WITH BRAIN CANCER!

March 23, 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/23/ashya-king-now-free-of-cancer-after-proton-therapy-say-parents

This little boy stricken with brain cancer was at Hospital in Southampton, UK.  His parents heard about Proton Therapy in Prague, Czech Republic and were worried that the NHS Southampton Hospital was not using up to date treatment (causing less damage and side effects than conventional radiotherapy).  They wanted to take him to Prague for the best available treatment and the parents were prepared to sell their house in Spain to pay for the treatment (not covered by the NHS).

When the parents took their son out of the Hospital, the Southampton Hospital had the parents arrested when they were abroad and put into prison! (and were separated by the Police hundreds of miles away from their son)

There was a public uproar and eventually, a British Judge freed them and then the family were allowed to travel to Prague.  The Prague Proton Therapy Centre (PTC) offered to treat the little boy without charge and later, the NHS were shamed into finally offering to pay for Proton Beam Treatment.

In today's papers, it is reported that the cancer has been eliminated.  Obviously, time will tell, but had the little boy been left to UK doctors, one wonders if he would be as he is now, bearing in mind that radiotherapy can cause damaging side effects to healthy parts of the brain.

  FORUM POSTERS/WALLPAPERS LOST

September 15, 2010

Dear Members

As you may have noticed, we have lost hundreds of wallpapers and posters of Silvia and Lea!

I wrote to Martin to ask about this and it seems that all the files are gone.

This also affects Lea's own site (Chris).

I have the master files for most of the posters of Lea and Silvia and some of the wallpapers from Fira's topic.

It seems that I will have to replace them one by one, which will take some time.

Lea's section ("Remember Me" topic) is devastated and I will need to rebuild it. Martin is arranging some storage space so that I can start uploading each item and then transfer it one at a time to the relevant Forum topics.

Regards, Vic. 15 September '10.

Addendum:  The work has started. As I said, it will take me some time.

  Lukas Rosol defeats Rafa Nadal

July 7, 2012

  Czech Tennis Player destroys Rafa Nadal at Wimbledon Championship

June 29, 2012

Yesterday, we witnessed Czech Tennis Player destroy Rafa Nadal at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in South-West London.

http://tvnz.co.nz/wimbledon/haka-inspires-upstart-rosol-nadal-upset-4951372

  Riots in London!

August 9, 2011

We've had shops and store buildings burnt out (including a 150 year family building in Croydon which had survived two World Wars!), people living above shops having to jump out of windows, television shops looted and emptied, cars smashed and set on fire and there's more trouble expected again tonight with an expected 16,000 police to be on the streets.

Have a look on the Web!   8 & 9 August 2011.

  Amy Winehouse RIP :((

July 23, 2011

Hi there,

it made me so sad today to hear about the death of Amy, she was so great :(

Metin