in the coastal region of Cantabria.Veronica Lombrana had brought her Schnauzer Kai surfing for the first time They had a small scare being plunged into the water while riding a wave Kai had no comment.Manuel Calvo from the event's organiser said the event has a serious aim: promoting dog adoptions and discouraging pet abandonment by showing off a fun way to bond with your pooch.GRESCAN a charity formed by professional emergency workers gave a demonstration of dogs trained to assist in aquatic rescues.Reporting by Vincent West; Writing by David Latona; Editing by Aislinn Laing and Peter Graff Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab , opens new tab Browse an unrivalled portfolio of real-time and historical market data and insights from worldwide sources and experts. , opens new tabScreen for heightened risk individual and entities globally to help uncover hidden risks in business relationships and human networks. © 2025 Reuters. All rights reserved New week Down Under! Racing in Australia in the early hours of Monday morning from Yarra Valley, Welington and Ballina. Overnight Double pays 11/4! Hard to look past the hat-trick seeking GRINZINGER MOON here She is a progressive filly who can keep improving for a while yet so she should get the job done again here Regal Tycoon is likeable and does look the most immediate danger on recent form Race 7 Yarra Valley 6.30 Grinzinger Moon (10/11) I know JOLLY GOOD FELLOW is yet to win but he has only had a few chances and this looks a really winnable opportunity ahead of his return His best form would see him too strong for these Harry Tudor has fitness on side at least so looks the main threat Race 3 Wellington 4.25 Jolly Good Fellow (1/1) The Australian Daily Double consists of both the NAP and NB and is a great way of covering our two best bets of the night to maximise profit Race 3 Wellington 4.25 Jolly Good Fellow NEXT BEST Race 7 Yarra Valley 6.30 Grinzinger Moon NAP Pays 11/4! Check out all my tips in Australia in the early hours of Monday morning I’ve gone through every race across all THREE meetings in Australia overnight so here’s what I’m backing (just scroll down). All my tips can be added straight to your bet365 bet slip (just click the orange links) My Australian Notebook Double consists of both my tracker horses running Down Under overnight. They are two horses that have caught my eye. Pays 6/1! Race 2 Yarra Valley 4.00 Queen Katrina NOTEBOOK Race 7 Ballina 7.45 Pressalong NOTEBOOK Pays 6/1! This is probably my most popular multiple Down Under as it combines both my Daily Notebooks along with my Value Tip and Daily Eye Catcher. Usually really good value too. Pays 80/1! Race 5 Wellington 5.40 Wilbury VALUE TIP Race 8 Yarra Valley 7.00 Under My Thumb EYE CATCHER Pays 80/1! Another Mega Acca overnight which includes some of my best bets. Always includes the NAP (best bet) and NB (next best bet). Pays 18/1! Race 1 Wellington 3.15 Rail Trail Race 3 Yarra Valley 4.30 Suances Race 6 Ballina 7.10 Signature Tart Pays 18/1! I fancy these two at decent odds overnight so I’ve combined them to make an Each Way Double. Pays 30/1! Race 5 Yarra Valley 5.30 Miletus Race 8 Wellington 7.25 Adventure Seeker Pays 30/1! Daily Free betting tips including horse racing tips football predictions and free bets from all of the trusted bookmakers About Us Football Betting Tips Football Draw Predictions Half Time Full Time Tips Over 2.5 Goals Tips Horse Racing Betting Tips UK Racecourses Irish Racecourses Tote Placepot Tips NAP of the Day Grand National Tips Cheltenham Festival Copyright – GetYourTipsOut (GYTO) 2025 © All Rights Reserved Jed Cohen (right) with sons Tim and Mark and Hall of Fame jockey Laffit Pincay Jr Jed Cohen had to round up a bunch of friends to buy his first racehorse in the early 1960s because no one had the necessary $2,500 and when her trainer recommended Jed purchase a goat to calm her down Jed thought he'd acquired the wrong kind of animal but the goat outworked the horse," Jed once recalled "We should have spent $2,500 on goats Cohen, whose family races in the name of Red Baron's Barn and Rancho Temescal, the current leading owners at Del Mar Cohen in the past few years had battled illnesses The stable has been particularly successful recently. Red Baron's Barn and Rancho Temescal, which won the final race at Del Mar Nov. 26 with Percolate  has excelled at buying horses in training in Europe and bringing them to the U.S Sign up for BloodHorse Daily Photo: Benoit PhotoPacks a Wahlop wins the Zuma Beach Stakes at Santa Anita Park Son Tim Cohen manages the stable these days While their most successful stakes winners have come from Europe they have also bred many good runners at their Rancho Temescal in Piru Jed grew up in New York and learned to love racing from his father, Harry, who often followed the races at Belmont Park Jed moved to California in 1959 and became a successful investment banker and advisor especially after Wayward Jenny won a $3,500 claiming race at Santa Anita in 1961 from Pope after the horse won the Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot Domineering was a multiple stakes-placed runner in California "Domineering was the first really important horse though all of them are important," Jed said "Domineering was a different quality horse than I had ever been able to get." One of Cohen's best horses was millionaire Janet  who raced for him in the name of Red Baron's Barn Janet won the 2001 Ramona Handicap (G1T) and Yellow Ribbon Stakes (G1T).  winner of the 2018 Charles Whittingham Stakes (G2T) 2017 John Henry Turf Championship Stakes (G2T) Winner of the 2020 Runhappy Del Mar Futurity (G1) Schivel finished second in the 2021 Qatar Racing Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) Jed instilled a love of horses into his children, Tim, Mark, and Linda. It continues not only with the racing stable, but also with Thoroughbred aftercare. Many of their runners have gone on to good second careers, and Jed was instrumental in saving Suances  Jed bought Suances privately in France before the 2000 Emirates Airline Prix Jean Prat (G1) At Arlington Park prior to that summer's Secretariat Stakes (G1T) severing a tendon and nearly ending his life "It wouldn't have mattered whether he was a cheap horse or an expensive horse." and Suances also won that year's Dallas Turf Cup Handicap the horse later stood at Rancho Temescal until his death in 2019 at age 22 Tim Cohen said that a celebration of life will be held in the new year Feedback | Tuesday Dozens of four-legged surfers and their human companions hit the beach in northern Spain over the weekend for a surfing competition with a difference: the annual European dog surfing championship confidently shredded the waves with their owner 13-time Spanish bodysurf champion Deva Martin Solar “The more the dog goes into the water… the more fun it has,” she said “If you love surfing and creating that link with the dog the truth is that it’s very nice.” Chocolate-coloured Labrador Koa and her owner Juan Manuel Santiago were crowned the winners of the third annual championship Veronica Lombrana brought her Schnauzer Kai surfing for the first time They had a small scare after being dumped into the water while riding a wave said the event has a serious aim promoting dog adoptions and discouraging pet abandonment by showing off a fun way to bond with your pooch We will send you breaking news right to your inbox But his failed drug test on 7 September, as uncovered by a joint investigation between the Guardian and Le Monde, threatens not only his plans for the coming season and reputation as one of Britain’s finest athletes, it could also be a final nail in the already battered coffin of Team Sky. The genesis of Team Sky, should it have been forgotten in a blur of Jiffy bags and inhalers was a response to decades of doping scandals in cycling Here was a team you could trust to remain on the straight and narrow who had previously overseen the transformation of Great Britain’s Olympic track cycling team from no-hopers to world-beaters In an interview with the Guardian in 2011 Brailsford said: “There’s no place for drugs in the sport and we like to think that we’re at the forefront of trying to promote clean cycling If we thought it wasn’t possible then I’d be out.” Then there were allegations that a mystery Jiffy bag delivered to Wiggins at the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2011 contained a prohibited substance. A UK Anti-Doping Agency investigation did not bring any charges, hampered by a lack of evidence. That was partly due to the team doctor, Richard Freeman, claiming he had lost the laptop containing Wiggins’s medical data while on holiday in Greece. Read moreWiggins has always denied any wrongdoing and maintained the package contained the legal decongestant Fluimucil, an answer also given by Freeman in a written statement to a parliamentary hearing. The same doctor, Freeman, who also worked for British Cycling allegedly took a delivery of banned testosterone patches but he was unable to account for them and said they had been delivered in error Sky maintain that Froome’s levels of the asthma drug salbutamol – twice the permitted limit – can be explained “There are complex medical and physiological issues which affect the metabolism and excretion of salbutamol,” Brailsford said on Wednesday There is varying medical opinion as to what performance-enhancing benefit salbutamol offers Professor Chris Cooper of the University of Essex said Froome “would have to be really stupid” to try to cheat with salbutamol as it has no performance-enhancing effects when taken via an inhaler and the rider would have known he was being tested every day Froome has even said as much in his defence Froome did not appear overly concerned when he and his wife were visited at their home in Monaco by the journalists Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui on 10 October just three weeks after finding out about the failed test The pair spoke in a relaxed manner for more than an hour for a cycling podcast reflecting on how hungry he was for more success next year Since their inception Team Sky have sought to portray themselves as a transparent organisation. In 2013 they invited David Walsh, the journalist credited with bringing about the downfall of Lance Armstrong, to spend time with them to prove they were clean. But they freely admitted on Wednesday that if an investigation by the Guardian and Le Monde had not uncovered Froome’s positive test then it may have remained hidden for ever. “This is a process that in normal circumstances would be confidential,” Team Sky said in a statement. “However, in light of media interest, we believe it is important that the facts are set out clearly for all.” Read moreIt was the decisive moment in the race and it pretty much ensured Froome became the first rider to win the Tour de France-Vuelta double in the same year since 1978 and the first Briton in history to take the Vuelta As Froome explained after the stage: “Once we got into the last climb our guys set a really high tempo at the bottom and I was feeling a lot better today so it was great to gain a little bit of time that I lost I think certainly some guys paid for their efforts on Wednesday and also for their attacks earlier on today It’s good to bounce back again and morale is still good and the team still strong We’re just looking forward to getting through these next couple of days.” Sky can no longer be breezily given the benefit of the doubt given the lingering uncertainty over the Jiffy bag delivered to Wiggins Or the evidence given by Brailsford and Shane Sutton to the digital media and sport select committee that left its chair Remember that Brailsford also tried to persuade the Daily Mail to bury the Jiffy bag story because he feared it could mark “the end of Team Sky” told parliament in March that her investigators had met with “resistance” from Team Sky in their inquiries All these questions swirl around a team that promised to be cleaner than clean Summer is here and that means it's time for beach handball The European Beach Handball Tour (ebt) 2023 has been ongoing since April with a packed schedule of beach handball action for Europe's best clubs This article will be regularly updated with details of how to follow every leg of the ebt The ebt began on Thursday 27 April with the Jarun Cup 2023 in Zagreb and Croatia also host the final tournament Other ebt legs have taken place across Europe 16-20 August: Opuzen Open 2023 (2nd Stipe Vuletic Memorial), Croatia - live ticker Slovakia22-23 July: III Portugal Beach Handball Tour 2023 Portugal27-30 July: Circuito Regional And Praia 2023 - 5a Etapa Croatia29-30 July: Beach handball "Ventspils" 2023 Latvia4-6 August: M.B.H Messogios Beach Handball Tournament 2 Cyprus4-6 August: XXX Trofeo Carranza - Copa de Andalucía Spain5-6 August: British Beach Handball Championships You said no to using cookies or similar tools that help improve your experience. To see this content, you would need to update your Privacy Preferences REVIEW: The yearly beach handball tournament in Croatia crowned its new champions on Sunday 4 May NEWS: The ebt 2025 will see Europe’s best beach handball clubs on the sand across a number of different tournaments held in the coming month… HUMANS OF BEACH HANDBALL: The man who put Polish beach handball on the map guides us through his extraordinary career on… NEWS: The list of referees and delegates for EHF Beach Handball EURO 2025 and the YAC 17 EHF Beach Handball EURO 2025 is now known HUMANS OF BEACH HANDBALL: Jelena Eric has transitioned from a successful indoor handball career to being a leader on the sand NEWS: The 14 men's and 14 women's teams that will contest the ebt Finals 2025 in Italy have been confirmed DRAW REVIEW: Groups for preliminary round determined during draw event at European Handball House in Vienna DRAW REVIEW: 18 teams have been drawn into three groups for 3-6 July 2025 championships in Alanya NEWS: The draw for the men's and women's EHF Beach Handball EURO and YAC17 Beach Handball EUROs takes place on Wednesday 26 February HUMANS OF BEACH HANDBALL: One of Germany's brightest young stars Matthew Wollin is busy turning his dreams into reality French-bred Itsinthepost thus cost Cohen $100,000 in supplemental entry fees for the Turf "It's very exciting," Cohen said "I've always said people in this business are insane How do you spend $100,000 to run in this race but I got a lot of push from a lot of people I've never treated this business like it was sound economics anyway." He grew up poor in New York City but made his way to NYU Law School giving legal advice on the side to the number runners and bookmakers whom he befriended He moved to California early on and switched from the law to finance serving as an economic advisor to the John F Cohen watched his father pool money with friends to make $2 bets on Saturdays at Belmont Park or at the old Jamaica racetrack When the younger Cohen saw Alfred Vanderbilt leading Native Dancer into the winner's circle at Belmont he determined that someday he would own a racehorse "My life was over right then," Cohen said "I had died and gone to heaven." who showed some ability early on in France which is similar to an American racetrack in that it is flat and left-handed," said bloodstock agent Hubert Guy who brokered the purchase of Itsinthepost for Cohen "He showed a nice turn of foot at 2 going nine furlongs and looked like he'd be a nice His 3-year-old season was a winless bust in allowance optional claiming company and it took Itsinthepost 11 starts to finally win in the U.S Moved from the retiring Darrell Vienna to Jeff Mullins Itsinthepost won two allowance optional claiming races in 2016 and jumped up into graded stakes company at the beginning of this season The gelding ran second in both the San Gabriel Stakes (G3T) and the San Marcos Stakes (G2T) before rolling off consecutive victories in the San Luis Rey and Dixiana Elkhorn Stakes (both G2T) both at the Breeders' Cup Turf distance of 12 furlongs 1 John Henry Turf Championship Stakes (G2T) trouble-free," Cohen said. "Jeff thought he was a really good horse from the start and really got him turned around." More than a decade ago, Cohen purchased a 600-acre farm and ranch in Ventura County north of Los Angeles named Rancho Temescal. His son Tim manages that operation, which stands the Cohens' stallion Suances  along with client horses Tenga Cat and Roi Charmant and whatever else you could put in a salad grow there; and film companies use the property for location shooting "With the consolidation of farms in California the ones that are left are busy," noted Tim Cohen who partners with his father in the ownership of Itsinthepost "We've had HBO up here shooting quite a bit Every few weeks we have something going on As for the competition facing Itsinthepost in the Turf the Cohens know they are going to need to get a lifetime-best performance from their charge to get to the winner's circle "There's stiff competition, but we're hoping for a home-court advantage," Tim said "The turns are tighter and the ground firmer than the Euros are used to and he's really dropping his head and wanting to get there now." Famara beach is among the ten finalists for the Best Beach in Spain and The Canary Islands award given by the Condé Nast Traveler magazine The nine other competing beaches are Valdevaqueros (Tarifa) Playa de Poo (Llanes) & Calblanque (Cartanega) Condé Nast Traveler magazine describes Famra beach as “Housed in a humble fishing village the water current created by the separation between Lanzarote and the islets of the Chinijo archipelago hence in the village of Caleta de Famara there are important surfing and kitesurfing schools in 2020 it was awarded as one of the beaches with the best sunsets in Spain making it a unique location in the country.” You can vote for Famara at this link: https://labs.traveler.es/promos/test-mejor-playa-espana-2024-2/participations/new?locale=es&use_auth=anonymous&v=e002d and website in this browser for the next time I comment Jet2 is expanding its winter 25/26 programme with more flights to 13 popular destinations (including Lanzarote & Fuerteventura) from Manchester Airport & London Stansted Fire fighters were called to put out a minibus engine fire yesterday morning Lanzarote Pool & Spa Shop in Playa Blanca are currently looking for an Office Administrator & Customer Service Representative A head-on collision between two vehicles on the LZ-1 near Mala yesterday evening saw three people injured Six local derbies will take place next season as three Lanzarote teams take part in Group 12 of the Third RFEF league We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings Sign-up to the Gazette Newsletter to receive a weekly email including the most important news stories and upcoming events This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly necessary cookies should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again The Local Europe ABVästmannagatan 43113 25 StockholmSweden the vibrant yellow bloom of mimosa or apple blossom festivals there are signs of spring all across Spain There's no need to travel as far as Japan either as Spain hosts many of its own blossom and flower festivals that will be taking place over the next couple of months Here are some of the best places to see wildflowers in Spain this spring this is the time of year when couples flock to the Quinta de los Molinos park (Near Suances Metro in the east of the city) to admire the groves of almond trees Located near the city of Lleida in Catalonia each March and April the small town of Aitona transforms into a sea of pink as the surrounding peach trees begin to bloom Located in the Valle de Jerte in Extremadura from late march until mid-April over one and a half million cherry trees begin to flower Some of the best villages to see the blooms are Piornal The Cherry Blossom Festival takes place in these towns usually at the beginning of April with markets Near the city of Burgos in northern Spain lies the Caderechas valley Jaén may be more well known for its olives than its blossoming fruit trees but hidden among the olive groves of the Sierra Mágina you'll find the delicate white flowers of hundreds of cherry trees The northern region of Asturias is known for its delicious cider but what makes you appreciate this amber liquid even more is visiting during apple blossom season in late April or early May The Asturias cider district is located across the villages of Bimenes which turn into a snow-white scene during the yearly Apple Blossom Week Fragrant scents of almond and orange blossom drift through the Sierra de Tramuntana mountains in Mallorca each spring the town of Sóller plays host to the annual Orange Blossom Festival paying homage to the town's strong history with the citrus fruit While the Temps de Flors festival isn't a blossom festival like the ones above it is a great opportunity to see the spring flowers in full bloom in a unique and creative way the Catalan city of Girona holds this flower festival which sees floral artists creating living installations on routes throughout the historic town Please log in here to leave a comment © 2025 EmCan Media - Hosted By canaryfone From this Monday (December 19th) until Boxing Day (26th) Las Galletas will have its own ice skating rink at the Plaza Paulino Suances which is free for children as part of Arona’s campaign to support local businesses this Christmas The rink is inside a marquee and has a capacity for more than 40 skaters at a time in 10-minute shifts and provides all the necessary equipment for the kids and a polar bear to help keep their balance all you have to do is show a shopping receipt of more than 20 euros (not per child from one of the local shops in the municipality which doesn’t include commercial centres or bars and restaurants except Christmas Day starting this Monday at 5pm Lane's End Breeders' Futurity winner Square Eddie makes his highly-anticipated 3-year-old debut in the San Rafael Stakes.Order This Photo