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Mucho Macho Man (foaled 2008) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2013 Breeders' Cup Classic. Named after the Village People song "Macho Man", he was owned for most of his racing career by Dean and Patti Reeves of Reeves Thoroughbred Racing, and trained by Kathy Ritvo. Born late in the year for a Thoroughbred foal, as a growing two- and three-year-old he had to compete against horses that were several months older. In 2011, he competed in all three Triple Crown races, finishing third in the Kentucky Derby. After surgery in 2011 to address a breathing problem, he came back and won three graded stakes races and finished a close second in the 2012 Breeders' Cup Classic. Winning that race in 2013 (pictured with jockey Gary Stevens), combined with the compelling human-interest stories surrounding the horse and the people who worked with him, earned him the Secretariat Vox Populi Award and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association Moment of the Year. Mucho Macho Man won another race in January 2014 and was retired in July due to "wear and tear", but essentially sound. He now lives at Adena Springs where he will stand at stud. (Full article...)

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Protesters gather in Hong Kong to demonstrate against proposed electoral changes announced by the Chinese government.
In golf, Europe wins the Ryder Cup.
Dennis Kimetto (pictured) of Kenya sets a new world record at the Berlin Marathon.
In Japan, Mount Ontake erupts, and the bodies of at least 31 hikers are found.
The NASA probe MAVEN and the ISRO probe Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary craft, both enter orbit around Mars.
The National Party, led by John Key, wins a majority in the New Zealand general election.

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October 1: Feast day of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (Catholicism); National Day in China (1949); Unification Day in Cameroon (1961); Independence Day in Cyprus and Nigeria (both 1960), and Tuvalu (1978); Filipino American History Month begins in the United States

1891 – Stanford University, founded by railroad magnate and California Governor Leland Stanford and his wife Jane on their former farm lands in Palo Alto, California, officially opened with 559 students and free tuition.
1910 – A large bomb destroyed the Los Angeles Times building in Los Angeles, killing 21 people.
1949 – Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
1964 – The Tōkaidō Shinkansen, the first Shinkansen line of high-speed railways in Japan, opened for service.
1991 – New Zealand's Resource Management Act came into effect, regulating access to natural and physical resources such as land, air and water, to ensure their sustainable use.

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An aerial view of Ma'aleh Akrabim (Scorpions Pass), part of Israel's Route 227. This steep, twisted road is considered dangerous owing to its poor physical condition. Below the pass there is a dropoff of hundreds of metres, yet the road has no guard rails.

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