sea hero ( foaled march 4 , 1990 in virginia ) is an american-bred thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1993 kentucky derby and travers stakes .

since 2011 , sea hero has been the oldest living winner of the kentucky derby .

sea hero

sea hero road in frankfort , kentucky , is named for the derby winner , as is sea hero court in napa , california .
as of january 2018 , sea hero is the oldest living kentucky derby winner .
sea hero quest vr is the game where anyone can help scientists fight dementia .
' the dataset that deutsche telekom ' s sea hero quest generates is truly unprecedented .
sea hero quest vr is a virtual reality game where anyone can help scientists to fight dementia . sea hero quest vr has been specifically developed for samsung gear vr . download now via the oculus store : urltoken urltoken
obituary : mackenzie t . miller , worked with paul mellon ' s thoroughbred sea hero to win 1993 kentucky derby
in a nice touch , sea hero ' s derby win came on his owner ' s 45 th wedding anniversary .
sea hero was the first kentucky derby winner to win the travers stakes since shut out accomplished the double in 1942 .
peteski didn ' t win his first race until six days before sea hero won this year ' s kentucky derby .
visit the sea hero quest site and find out about the first mobile game where anyone can help scientists fight dementia .
sea hero was the first kentucky derby winner for hall of fame jockey jerry bailey and hall of fame trainer mack miller .
sea hero was one of the few horses retained when paul mellon dispersed most of his bloodstock in 1992 . he became the only kentucky derby ( usa - i ) winner for the aging sportsman , who was 85 when sea hero won the roses .
deutsche telekom is following up its multiple cannes lions - winning mobile game sea hero quest with a vr sequel to the project .
called sea hero quest , the game involves navigating a boat around a fictional world , sailing through mazes and searching for landmarks .
the last virginia - bred horse to win the kentucky derby , sea hero was born on march 4 , 1990 . bred and owned by paul mellon , sea hero would go on to have a successful , though inconsistent , career as a racehorse and sire .
mr . miller , who had entered one horse in the derby before and finished fifth in 1968 , said he believed sea hero had a chance , based on his breeding alone . sea hero’s great - grandfather was northern dancer , who won the derby in 1964 .
the national sporting library & museum may 30 will host a symposium and reception celebrating the recent gift of the bronze sculpture sea hero .
the game ‘sea hero quest’ is a multi - level adventure game in which the player takes on the role of a sea explorer’s son traversing the seas , looking for and collecting the lost pieces of their father’s ocean journal . on their journey , players need to find and photograph weird and wonderful sea creatures . ‘sea hero quest’ is available worldwide , free of charge from the app store and google play .
sea hero quest is a new mobile game which neuroscientists hope will provide new insights into spatial awareness and help tackle dementia . photograph : glitcher
sea hero quest is available globally for ios and android devices and can be downloaded now for free from the app store and google play .
mr . miller , who had entered one horse in the derby before and finished fifth in 1968 , said he believed sea hero had a chance - based on his breeding alone . sea hero ' s great - grandfather was northern dancer , who won the derby in 1964 .
sea hero was retired to stud in 1994 after winning six races in 24 starts and collecting $ 2 , 929 , 869 in purses .
experts say sea hero quest is not a test for dementia , nor is it designed to be played by solely by those who have the condition .
sea hero quest can be downloaded for free from the apple app store and google play , and works on apple or android mobile phones or tablets .
as spring rolled around , mr . miller decided to run sea hero against stronger company in the blue grass stakes at the keeneland racetrack in lexington .
peteski wins again , in woodbine million : horse racing : he defeats sea hero , colonial affair , further muddying the 3 - year - old picture .
sea hero would go on to win the prestigious travers stakes later that year , but was retired as a four year old after failing to win another race . despite his inconsistent record , he finished his racing career with earnings of almost $ 3 million . sea hero entered stud at lane’s end farm in 1995 .
with jockey jerry bailey aboard , sea hero walked into the starting gates at churchill downs the first saturday in may at 13 - 1 odds . after maintaining a steady pace in the middle of the 19 - horse pack , sea hero made an explosive move to the inside rail around the final turn for home .
woodman knows his ships and the sea and is a craftsman of great ability .
frankie goodwin , the creative director on the campaign at saatchi & saatchi , said that sea hero quest signposted how brands and researchers could collaborate for mutual benefit .
mackenzie t . miller ( left ) with owner paul mellon and jockey jerry bailey after sea hero won . ( al behrman / associated press / file 1993 )
married love rat who claimed to be an sas hero to scam . . .
sea hero was trained by mack miller and had a reputation for being somewhat temperamental . miller experimented with different bitting techniques as the colt had a knack for getting his tongue over the bit , and tried running him with blinkers . sea hero was a sporadic winner , not breaking his maiden until his fourth start but then winning several consecutive races including the rich champagne stakes . an attempt at the breeders cup juvenile later that year though was a disappointment , with sea hero finishing a fading seventh .
peteski wins again , in woodbine million : horse racing : he defeats sea hero , colonial affair , further muddying the 3 - year - old picture . - latimes
a couple of weeks ago i got to try sea hero quest vr - a virtual reality game which will , somewhat astonishingly , help in the fight against dementia .
mellon opted to keep a select group of younger horses for racing , and one of those was sea hero , who was born on mellon’s virginia farm in 1990 .
mellon opted to keep a select group of younger horses for racing and one of those was sea hero , who was born on mellon ' s virginia farm in 1990 .
foaled in virginia , sea hero was bred and owned by paul mellon , who raced him in the name of his rokeby stables . he was trained by mack miller . he entered stud in 1995 at lane ' s end farm in kentucky . following the 1999 northern hemisphere breeding season , sea hero was exported to stand at karacabey pension stud near
but sea hero failed to match his earlier brilliance during the crucial winter months of his two - year old campaign in florida , finishing seventh , ninth and third against mediocre competition .
bred by mellon , glowing tribute gave him one of his greatest thrills in a lifetime of breeding and racing when her son sea hero ( by polish navy ) won the 1993 derby . for trainer mack miller , sea hero also won the travers ( gr . i ) and champagne stakes ( gr . i ) and earned $ 2 , 929 , 869 .
led by a sea hero mare in foal to end sweep , the australian broodmare sale conducted by the william inglis & company ended monday with a 17 % increase in average price .
sea hero quest was designed in collaboration by scientists from university college london , university of east anglia , alzheimer’s research uk and game designers from glitchers and has been launched by deutsche telekom .
as a trainer , mr . miller was revered for his patience with young , temperamental thoroughbreds that he molded into champion horses , including sea hero , who was naturally high - strung .
but sea hero failed to match his earlier brilliance during the crucial winter months of his 2 - year old campaign in florida , finishing seventh , ninth , and third against mediocre competition .
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the game , called sea hero quest is specifically designed to create the world’s largest sourced data set to improve the understanding of special navigation , in a bid to manage the growing threat dementia .
this plays into sea hero quest ' s eventual goal - to give data which will allow for the early identification of dementia signs . with this knowledge , it is hoped the spread of dementia can at least be slowed in the future . there ' s no easy path to treatment yet but , as in the game itself , it is hoped sea hero quest will help chart a course .
the wheels are in motion to bring kentucky derby ( gr . i ) winners strike the gold and sea hero back to the united states from turkey , where both have been standing at stud .
official u . s . navy file photo of sailors redering honors during a burial at sea ceremony .
miller , then 71 , and mellon , 85 , walked into the winner’s circle together with tears in their eyes . newspapers announcing the pair’s victory dubbed them “the old men and the sea hero . ’’
polish navy , a grade i winner and sire of 1993 kentucky derby ( gr . i ) winner sea hero , was euthanized jan . 6 at old friends thoroughbred retirement facility near georgetown , ky .
official u . s . navy file photo of a u . s . navy burial at sea ceremony .
sea hero quest vr is the work of uk studio glitchers , who were tasked with the project by researchers at university college london and my old university of east anglia . funded by deutsche telekom , it ' s backed by alzheimer ' s research uk . sea hero quest vr is the second game in the series , after another version of the game which launched back in 2015 for mobile phones . both games are free to download .
“the data set that deutsche telekom’s sea hero quest generates is truly unprecedented , until now these kind of investigations took years to coordinate and at best gave us a snap shot of how a very small sample of volunteers behaved .
all of the gameplay data collected will be anonymised and stored securely within t - systems data centre in munich to ensure data integrity and data privacy according to german data security law , one of the strictest in europe . sea hero quest is available globally for ios and android and can be downloaded now for free from the app store and google play . more information about sea hero quest and the story of its creation can be found at seaheroquest .
sea hero was among the top 10 turkish general sires in 2004 - 2010 , peaking at third in 2007 . he was fifth on the turkish broodmare sire list in 2013 , sixth in 2015 , seventh in 2014 and ninth in 2017 . according to records kept by the jockey club , sea hero has sired 200 winners ( 30 . 5 % ) and 15 stakes winners ( 2 . 3 % ) from 655 named foals as of february 19 , 2016 .
alzheimer’s research uk has teamed up with deutsche telekom and scientists from university college london and the university of east anglia to develop sea hero quest , a smartphone game that re - writes the rules on how we go about dementia research .
sea hero quest vr is a colourful cartoony game designed to be played by those without dementia - and those with . it ' s a memory game which challenges your sense of direction , and in the background anonymously logs your results .
deutsche telekom and saatchi & saatchi have created sea hero quest , a new mobile and online game , which is designed to provide scientific data every time it is played . this data will be used directly to aid research into dementia .
an sas hero of the 1980 iranian embassy siege is selling his medals for £30 , 000 to help fund his retirement .
sea hero , a 13 - 1 long shot in a huge field of 19 , broke through packed herds of horses twice along the route under a masterful ride by jerry bailey , the 35 - year - old president of the jockeys ' guild and a man with a talent for riding landmark races . in fact , just 24 hours before he guided sea hero in the derby , he won the 119th kentucky oaks aboard ogden mills phipps ' s dispute , who outran the great filly eliza .
saatchi & saatchi and deutsche telekom has unveiled ‘sea hero quest’ . developed in partnership with a team of scientific researchers from university college london , the university of east anglia and gaming experts glitchers , ‘sea hero quest’ is a new multi - platform mobile game designed specifically to help advance the understanding of spatial navigation , and therefore understand one of the first symptoms of dementia . bringing scientists one - step closer to developing new diagnostic tests for dementia , it is one of the biggest studies to date into the condition .
led by deutsche telekom , and created by saatchi & saatchi , london , the concept of ‘sea hero quest’ was motivated by the desire to empower people to game for good and made a reality by partnering with world - renowned experts in their respective fields .
called sea hero quest , the game ( pictured ) involves navigating a boat around a fictional world , sailing through mazes and searching for landmarks . every decision a player makes , once it has been anonymised , is fed back to scientists at university college london
bay horse standing 16 . 1 - 1 / 2 hands , sea hero was tall and leggy . he had a reputation for being temperamental and according to trainer mack miller was more like a filly than a colt to train as he was somewhat delicate of constitution
polish navy , a grade i winner and sire of 1993 kentucky derby ( gr . i ) winner sea hero , was euthanized jan . 6 at old friends thoroughbred retirement facility near georgetown , ky . he had been suffering from complications from a hip injury .
hero ' s tribute , a 6 - year - old son of sea hero - - eastern dawn , by damascus , has been retired from racing and will stand the 2005 breeding season at doug arnold ' s buck pond farm near versailles , ky . the three - time stakes winner , who arrived at the farm sept . 11 , will stand for a fee of $ 5 , 000 .
the final act for a hero sergeant was to shout
gun !
before taking a bullet intended for a fellow police officer .
i really never thought i ' d win a derby ,
mackenzie t . miller said in an interview after sea hero , the horse he trained , won the 1993 kentucky derby .
my time was running out . it makes you want to cry .
other levels have you hunting down a sea creature in a vaguely uniform lake , then trying to return to the same spot from memory .
the game asks you for basic personal details - gender , age , country of birth - and then tracks these against national averages . findings from sea hero quest ' s mobile version were startling - they showed a slow decline in memory from as young an age as 19 .
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“i’m not a hero ,
mccloughan said .
i just did my job . i’m not a hero . there’s a bunch of heroes there , a bunch of heroes . you know , any veteran will tell you the real heroes , they’re not here with us . ”
sea hero has been a good sire for turkey , and is consistently among the top ten of their general sire and broodmare sire lists . he has produced over 200 winners , among them 15 stakes winners . in 2011 , he became the oldest living winner of the kentucky derby .
mackenzie t . miller , 89 , a hall of fame thoroughbred trainer who won the 1993 kentucky derby with sea hero , the dark bay colt owned by arts patron and philanthropist paul mellon , died dec . 10 at a hospital in lexington , ky . , after a stroke .
ridden by craig perret , peteski overtook his pace - setting stablemate , cheery knight , and was never headed in the 1 1 / 8 - mile molson . the winner carried 121 pounds , five less than sea hero . cheery knight hung on for second , three - quarters of a length ahead of sea hero , and kissin kris , truth of it all and colonial affair completed the order of finish . timed in 1 : 49 1 / 5 , peteski paid $ 5 . 30 to win . he was supplemented into the race for $ 15 , 000 .
mackenzie ' mack ' miller , a hall of fame trainer who won the 1993 kentucky derby ( gr . i ) with paul mellon ' s sea hero , died the morning of dec . 10 at the university of kentucky ' s markey cancer center in lexington . he was 89 .
washington — mackenzie t . miller , a hall of fame thoroughbred trainer who won the 1993 kentucky derby with sea hero , a colt owned by arts patron and philanthropist paul mellon , died dec . 10 at a hospital in lexington , ky . , after a stroke . he was 89 .
an animated film , directed by bibo bergeron will support the game by revealing its backstory of an ageing sea explorer who slowly loses his memories of past sea voyages to dementia . demonstrated in the film through pages of his beloved journal being lost , the viewer understands the disintegration of the old man’s memory .
jump on board , strap on your galoshes and set sail for arctic rivers , golden shores and mystic marches to capture elusive and mysterious creatures . sea hero quest vr is the world’s first vr game where anyone can help scientists fight dementia . one of the first symptoms of dementia is loss of navigational skills , and through our mobile game sea hero quest we have already gathered a substantial amount of data . now science would love to deepen insights into how people navigate . as you play , your navigational data is tracked anonymously and stored securely to create the world’s largest and most precise crowd sourced data to help benchmark human spatial navigation . created by glitchers , presented by deutsche telekom and supported by scientists from university college london and university of east anglia , sea hero quest vr is an epic culmination of science and vr gameplay that will continue to change the way dementia research is done forever . find out more here : urltoken
available for apple and android phones and tablets , sea hero quest is an innovative way of rising to our greatest medical challenge . playing for just a couple of minutes provides what would normally take scientists hours to achieve in conventional study recruitment . but you’ll want to play for more than a couple of minutes !
in 1999 , sea hero was exported to turkey and still stands at the karacabey pension stud in izmit , turkey . a government - run farm , karacabey stud is the largest thoroughbred breeding farm in turkey , a country that has been quietly and successfully building a racing empire . along with sea hero , the turkish jockey club has acquired many american stakes winners , including several recently bought from internationally renowned coolmore stud . turkey now boasts eight racetracks and seven stud farms . karacabey stud alone has over 800 broodmare and foaling stalls as well as a fully equipped stallion station and veterinary facility , including a laboratory , hospital , and operating room .
glowing tribute , the dam of kentucky derby ( gr . i ) winner sea hero and six other major stakes winners , died aug . 5 of colic . one of the top broodmares of recent times , the 31 - year - old daughter of graustark was owned by john r . gaines at the time of her death .
sea hero ( usa ) dkb / br . h , 1990 { 1 - x } dp = 3 - 5 - 22 - 4 - 2 ( 36 ) di = 1 . 12 cd = 0 . 08 - 24 starts , 6 wins , 3 places , 4 shows career earnings : $ 2 , 929 , 869
unfortunately , bad knees kept him away from the races for several months while other contemporaries were establishing major reputations . he was a very disappointing sire given his own racing merit and excellent pedigree but did get one son who probably had talent at least equal to his own in 1993 kentucky derby ( usa - i ) winner sea hero .
the 119th kentucky derby , billed as the most wide open in years and belittled as the least distinguished in years , was won with style and personal drama today by sea hero , the horse who was nearly consigned to a career of grass racing until the plan was vetoed by his 85 - year - old owner , paul mellon .
the pioneering project will mean that any one of the thousands of people who try the free sea hero quest game can play their own part in an innovative piece of dementia science . playing the game will help our scientists understand in detail how our brains navigate space , and help to build the largest crowd - sourced database on human spatial navigation .
the mellon team also made one other change that thrust sea hero into racing history : at bailey ' s suggestion , they removed the blinkers that the colt had worn during his slump . bailey said today that removing the blinkers seemed to calm the horse , but conceded :
it was a pretty big step to take just before the kentucky derby .
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hey sea hero ! it’s time to continue your quest through two new exciting worlds ; from the volcanic kano reef to the thunderous high rollers . help us collect more data for scientists to continue the fight against dementia . with your help we can # gameforgood need to knows : added five new bonus levels . created two new worlds ! we’ve squashed a few bugs .
at the same time , we realised that if we wanted to achieve real scale and truly make a difference , we needed to make it fun for everyone involved . we needed to create something that would get people gaming for good . ” every aspect of sea hero quest has been designed jointly by game developers and scientists to provide insights about the way we navigate everyday .
drawing on a true incident , richard woodman deftly concludes the career of his sea hero . drinkwater’s complex character is revealed in its entirety . far from being the reminiscences of an old man , the novel skillfully weaves the past with the present ; the personal tensions below decks , the straining creak of a man - of - war under sail , the crack of a cannon shot and the plaintive mews of the trailing gulls are never far away . to the end , nathaniel drinkwater’s life is full of incident and the unexpected , so typical of the sea officers of his day .
another statue of sea hero , a large - scale bronze standing nearly seven feet high , is part of the collection at the national sporting library & museum in middleburg , virginia . created by british artist tessa pullan , the statue was installed on may 30 , 2015 , as part of a ceremony honoring the late paul mellon , who had given the statue to the museum by a bequest in his will .
since then , the canadian - bred , american - owned peteski has been trying to catch up , and on sunday in suburban toronto he caught and passed the best 3 - year - olds in the united states by winning the molson export million by four lengths . among the five horses peteski beat were sea hero ; colonial affair , winner of the belmont stakes ; and kissin kris , another major stakes winner .
while sea hero quest ' s mobile version was designed to get into the hands of the largest audience , this new vr version is designed to provide far more detailed telemetry . instead of finger swipes , this vr edition can record accurate body gestures such as head turning and gestures . the hope is that these will provide data on how memory deteriorates over time , and how we respond to the challenges of navigation .
but he decided to give it one more try , and sent the star of the stable back to his 71 - year - old trainer , mackenzie miller , and they charted a course that returned their horse to racing on dirt in the classics . and this afternoon , before a throng of 136 , 817 spectators at old churchill downs , they reached their goal when sea hero outran the favored prairie bayou . wild gale was third .
sea hero quest took 12 months to set up and launch , and initially , will be available to download until the end of the year . hornberger explains that the goal by then was to have 100 , 000 people play the game for at least two minutes . as of this week , it’s been downloaded over 960 , 000 times . the plan is to update the app in june , with more levels that investigate other aspects of spatial navigation .
polish navy entered stud at the hancock family’s claiborne farm near paris , ky . , which is where he sired paul mellon ' s sea hero . the homebred colt won not only the 1993 run for the roses but also the travers . polish navy later stood at hayata farm in japan and at nathan fox’s wafare farm near lexington following his return from overseas . he sired 17 stakes winners , including secretariat stakes ( gr . it ) winner ghazi .
if you want , you can just . . . play sea hero quest vr , which is available now , for free , for gear vr and oculus rift headsets . like the mobile game , the vr title asks that you answer questions about your age , sex , location , and others such as how you would rate your orientation skills . you can opt - out of sharing any data , if you like , but the more information you provide , the more valuable your contribution .
polish navy , sea hero’s sire , was by the prepotent danzig . danzig was twice the leading sire in the united states , and also topped the charts in spain and the united arab emirates . winning seven of twelve starts , polish navy retired with over $ 1 million in earnings and would go on to sire seventeen stakes winners . he stood at claiborne farm and in japan , before eventually being retired to old friends , a retirement facility in kentucky . polish navy passed away in 2011 .
he went into the 1993 kentucky derby at odds of 13 - 1 , and even his jockey , jerry bailey , didn’t think he had much of a chance . in fact , bailey had told his wife to stay home with their young son on derby day , as it wasn’t likely that the horse would win . surprising many , sea hero ran well , beating the favorite prairie bayou by 2 ½ lengths and delivering miller , bailey , and mellon their first wins in the kentucky derby .
the citizen science project that is sea hero quest vr could be invaluable , regardless . nearly 3 million people have downloaded the mobile game , generating what ' s said to be the equivalent of more than 12 , 000 years of lab - based research . the vr sequel will build on this , generating more complex and accurate data , which in turn will allow us to look more deeply at differences in spatial memory across age groups , between sexes , and where varying environmental factors are at play .
hero ' s honor ( mgsw , sire ) , glowing honor ( mgsw ) , wild applause ( mgsw , multiple stakes producer ) , mackie ( mgsw , multiple stakes producer ) , coronation cup ( mgsw ) , seattle glow ( sw ) .
it was too good to be true ,
bailey reported after avoiding the gridlock that often strangles the derby field .
i found myself alone between bunches of horses . then when i had to get through , they parted like the red sea .
six - year - old gelding sea dub posted the biggest upset in a lone star park stakes race when he ran down 9 - 5 favorite fullbridled in the final strides of saturday ' s $ 200 , 000 dallas turf cup in grand prairie , texas .
with handicap division leader harlan ' s holiday several thousand miles away in dubai , john oxley ' s favored hero ' s tribute took full advantage to tally an easy victory in saturday ' s $ 300 , 000 gulfstream park handicap ( gr . ii ) .
sea hero’s dam , glowing tribute , was also from an illustrious family . her sire , graustark , was syndicated for a record $ 2 . 4 million in 1966 , an enormous sum for that time and her dam , admiring , was a stakes winner . glowing tribute was herself a stakes winner and she would produce six stakes winners during her broodmare career for rokeby stables . glowing tribute was broodmare of the year in 1993 and widely considered one of the best broodmares of recent times . she passed away in 2004 , at the age of 31 .
she produced five other grade / group stakes winners : hero ' s honor ( by northern dancer ) , wild applause ( by northern dancer ) , glowing honor ( by seattle slew ) , coronation cup ( by chief ' s crown ) , and mackie ( by summer squall ) .
sea jewel , fourth in the breeders ' cup juvenile fillies ( gr . i ) , faces stakes winners atlantic ocean and summer wind dancer in sunday ' s $ 100 , 000 - added santa ysabel stakes ( gr . iii ) for 3 - year - old fillies at santa anita park .
bailey , who had six pairs of mud goggles still strapped around his forehead after the race , rode five times in the derby without winning before teaming with sea hero . he acknowledged that after winning the champagne stakes last october at belmont park , the colt had mystified the entire stable when he lost his next four races . in the worst part of the losing streak , he ran seventh , ninth and third at gulfstream park in florida . and that ' s when miller and his consulting trainer , scotty schulhofer , reckoned the horse probably should race on grass and skip the triple crown series .
a massive thank you to the 2 . 5m people who played the game . the first exciting research results will be made public very soon… - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - hey sea hero ! it’s time to continue your quest through two new exciting worlds ; from the volcanic kano reef to the thunderous high rollers . help us collect more data for scientists to continue the fight against dementia . with your help we can # gameforgood need to knows : added five new bonus levels . created two new worlds ! we’ve squashed a few bugs .
the data from all the playthroughs of the sea hero quest mobile game is already revealing some interesting preliminary insights . analysis shows differences in basic spatial navigation skill begins to show at around 19 years of age , suggesting that deterioration can begin earlier than expected , long before other hallmark symptoms of dementia start presenting themselves . men and women also tend to employ different strategies to solve puzzles - - choosing certain routes over others to complete a level , for example - - and people from nordic countries seem to be better than average at the game . these kind of observations are already telling scientists that different demographic and socioeconomic factors produce different results .
sea hero quest vr has been created not only to renew momentum behind the citizen science project , but to also nourish a much richer dataset . the mobile game records changes in orientation as you wind your way through channels with a 22 . 5 - degree buffer , partly because slightly erratic movement might simply be a product of finicky touchscreen controls . when you are guiding the direction of the boat with your eyes , however , control is more natural and so changes in direction are registered every 1 . 5 degrees . by monitoring much subtler changes in navigation , researchers will have a more detailed picture of how you went about completing a level .
johnnie yellock has both . he is the recipient of the bronze star and purple heart , among other military decorations . while he is honored to be a part of the exhibit , just don’t call him a hero . “those that don’t come home . . . those are the heroes of our time , ” he told voa .
schools were closed to clear roads . residents had tied blue ribbons on poles and benches all along the route on merrick road as a sea of blue streamed toward the church . msgr . robert romano said president - elect donald trump sent his condolences to tuozzolo ' s widow and sons . trump called his widow personally , police sources said .
for an inspection of lighthouses on the west coast of england . bowed with age and honors , the old sea officer has been drawn from retirement on half - pay to fulfill his public duty . the following day , tragedy strikes , and drinkwater is confronted with his past life : his sins and follies , his triumphs and his disasters .
on the face of it , sea hero quest could be just another mobile game . cheerful , colorful and with plenty of bite - sized levels intended to test memory and spatial awareness . but while you ' re captaining your little boat along snaking channels towards checkpoints , the game is watching you . it ' s scoring your spatial navigation skill , one of the first innate abilities dementia sufferers experience a deterioration in . the data gathered is contributing towards a better understanding of what ' normal ' looks like - - the benchmark for navigation skill across different demographics of people . the organizations behind the game are now back with a vr sequel , and the goal of advancing dementia research even further with their gamified approach .
elizabeth and tom baxter ' s cindy ' s hero charged along the rail while rounding the turn to move into contention , was swung out for racing room approaching the stretch by jockey garrett gomez , and closed gamely though the stretch to earn her first career win in the $ 250 , 000 del mar debutante ( gr . i ) saturday at del mar .
by michele macdonald there is a timeless sound in the rustling of pines on a breezy rise overlooking fields of mares and foals that stretch to a horizon also dotted by olive trees and the bobbing heads of sunflowers . here , on tranquil sloping land outside of the ancient city of bursa , turkey , ottoman emperors raised fine sporting horses as long ago as the 14th century . and it is here that american classic winners victory gallop and sea hero are helping to shape turkey’s growing racing and breeding industry . those who express concern about the welfare of american expatriate runners can release their fears about the stallions who stand under the auspices of the jockey club of turkey , at either the karacabey stud near bursa or the izmit stud near izmit .
key partners on the deutsche telekom ‘sea hero quest’ project include ; charity alzheimer’s research uk , university college london , the university of east anglia and game developers glitchers . every aspect of the game has been designed jointly by game developers and scientists to provide insights about the way that people navigate every day . as players make their way through mazes of islands and icebergs , from the shores of the kano reef to the high seas , every second of gameplay will be translated into scientific data and stored anonymously and securely within a t - systems data centre in germany . the result of the innovative partnership will be the creation of the world’s largest crowd sourced database benchmarking human spatial cognition , a key aspect of brain function affected by dementia .
personal hope , winner of the santa anita derby , ran up front all the way until sea hero blew past him in the deep stretch . bull inthe heather , winner of the florida derby , never developed his finishing kick and ran 11th . dixieland heat , who won four straight in new orleans this spring , ran 12th . storm tower , winner of the wood memorial , bolted into the lead along the rail but dropped to 16th after one mile . rockamundo , who won the arkansas derby at odds of 108 - 1 , showed signs of pulmonary bleeding and faded to 17th . and el bakan , the
big shot
who was undefeated in panama , raced for the lead from the far outside and then plunged to 18th .
want to explore . [ valerian ] is a bit pretentious , he gets lucky most of the time , he’s lying , and he’s not specifically a heavy guy who can kick butt , but if suddenly he has to save laureline , he’s able to take two swords and win the fight . that’s what i like about the character . the real hero is her . ”
you play as a sea captain , aboard a ship you must sail through a watery maze . you are given directions to memorise then left to paddle off , with only your memory to guide you . at the end of some levels you are asked to fire a flare back to the rough point where you started - if you can remember where that is after being constantly turned around .
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but they didn ' t part later at the critical moment in the homestretch , with three - sixteenths of a mile to go , where the derby is usually won or lost . so , steering his 1 , 000 - pound horse like a broken - field runner , bailey executed a remarkable swerve to the left across traffic to the rail , where the derby is rarely won and often lost . but he and sea hero drew clear of the thundering herd and crossed the wire two and a half lengths in front of prairie bayou , who in turn beat wild gale by a head . and , in a massed finish , wild gale edged personal hope by the length of his neck while the allen paulson entry of diazo and corby were next , separated by a head .
it works perfectly well in vr thanks to a deeper control scheme that lets you drive the boat , though you ' re searching for a friendly sea monster in the game , rather than trying not to drown , which is the main motivation for rats hunting out that invisible platform . this , again , generates a whole new dataset for study and cross - referencing against initial results from the mobile game .
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her name is prominent in many pedigrees today . for example , her son hero ' s honor , is the broodmare sire of elusive quality , the sire of this year ' s derby and preakness stakes ( gr . i ) winner smarty jones . also , her daughter wild applause is the dam of four stakes winners including yell , who runs in today ' s honorable miss ( gr . ii ) at saratoga .
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this is where a team led by professor michael hornberger at uea and dr hugo spiers at ucl come in . at the start of may , they launched a new mobile game called sea hero quest . the game puts you in the shoes of an unnamed sailor , whose father is slowly losing memories of his life as a seafaring explorer . to try and help him remember his past , your job is to travel around cartoon waterways in search of pieces of his old journal . at the start of a level , you’re given a top - down map of the waterways that shows a number of buoy markers you need to navigate through . once you’ve memorised it , you simply need to sail your ship around the 3d world and hit each buoy in numerical order . the information about the route you take , and what you do if you get lost , is saved and transmitted for further analysis .
in hollywood , buff men with bulging self - esteem are often the ones who save the day . a blockbuster hero needs arnold schwarzenegger’s threatening biceps , bruce willis’ impenetrable confidence , john wayne’s grizzled gunslinging , will smith’s bellowing charm and / or chris hemsworth’s rigid eyes . even characters meant to look like everyday folks ― say , tom holland’s nerdy peter parker in “spider - man : homecoming” ― sport chiseled abs and clear complexions . you couldn’t doubt their fortitude if you tried .
victory gallop strutted out of his karacabey barn gleaming with dapples in late july , seemingly eager to show off to a crowd of about 60 asian racing conference delegates who had taken a ferry from istanbul across the sea of marmara’s blue waters before journeying on by bus to visit the stud . in his fourth year in turkey , the 1998 belmont stakes ( gr . i ) winner who denied real quiet the triple crown had recently completed the breeding season in which he was allotted 120 mares .
the tampa bay buccaneers , in partnership with usaa , the buccaneers ' official military appreciation sponsor , will host their sts game on nov . 13 . during pregame , the buccaneers will pay tribute to a particular serviceman or woman from one of the five major military branches as the
hero of the game
. during the game , the buccaneers will host and honor the h norman schwarzkopf military family of the year award winners in the
salute to service suite
, and buccaneers players will provide hundreds of tickets to military members through the
front row fans
program . on nov . 8 , buccaneers players , cheerleaders and the team mascot will visit macdill air force base in tampa , fl to learn about what military members do on a day - to - day basis , as well as surprise different groups on - base .
at their sts game on sunday , nov . 13 , service men and women will hold the 100 - yard field flag while a member of the military performs the national anthem . a joint active duty color guard and veteran color guard will be presenting the colors , with a united states air force flyover at the end of the national anthem . throughout the game , the jaguars will honor a
hometown hero
,
veteran of the game
,
4th quarter bell ringer
and local wounded warriors . at halftime the team will hold a ceremony for 300 people enlisting into all five branches . afterwards , the military band will perform
god bless america .
during salute to service week leading up to the game , the jaguars will host an event each day in honor of the military community . these events will include a jaguars themed float in the local veterans day parade . over 3 , 000 tickets will be donated to military groups in the jacksonville community .
at their sts game on sunday , nov 13 , the steelers will honor a veteran from each of the wars going back to world war ii . the us air force parachute team , wings of blue , will be jumping the game ball into the stadium . the national anthem will be sung by an active member of the air force . former steeler and vietnam veteran rocky bleier will be on hand to meet with fans in the ford fan zone . the terrible towel unfurl will include members from all branches of the military . the terrible towel twirl will all be done by local military personnel and will be led by former steeler and army lieutenant andy russell . halftime will include a military challenge , where all five branches will compete to win a financial donation to the charity of their choice . the steelers will also honor a veteran from the paralyzed veterans of america , and the ati hero for the game will be awarded a service dog by the steelers through guardian angels medical service dogs . the red cross will be on - site with their holiday mail for heroes program for fans to send holiday cards to servicemen and women . the 50 / 50 raffle proceeds will benefit military charities . on nov . 1 , the steelers kicked off their sts activities with a visit to the pennsylvania air national guard ' s 171st air refueling wing , along with usaa , to honor local service members .
a frustrating horse to train in spite of his obvious ability , he was a disappointment as a sire and was exported to turkey .
he normally won his races coming from off the pace . as a stallion he has been high - spirited and playful .
) , dam of stakes winner stashed ( by key to the mint ) . the next dam in
' s tail - female line is national museum of racing hall of fame member searching , a foundation mare for the bieber - jacobs stable ' s breeding program .
directed by j . j . krakora , the film was released by microcinema international in 2007 .
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columbicola extinctus , also known as the passenger pigeon chewing louse , is an extant species of phtilopterid louse that was once believed to have been extinct with its only known host , the passenger pigeon , prior to its rediscovery living on band-tailed pigeons .

like other members of the genus columbicola , is a long , slender louse that shows marked sexual dimorphism in the antennae , as the male 's are much longer than those of the female in the third segment .

it is between 2.15 and 2.47 mm ( 0.085 and 0.097 in ) long overall .

the male 's head is between 0.52 and 0.59 mm ( 0.020 and 0.023 in ) long and broadens to form a slight shoulder at the anterior plate .

the female 's head is slightly largely at 0.53 to 0.64 mm ( 0.021 to 0.025 in ) .

the thorax has two very long setae on each side .

the generic name columbicola comes from the latin words columba , " dove , " and - cola , " inhabitant , " in reference to the genus 's primary hosts .

columbicola extinctus was originally described by richard o. malcomson in 1937 .

it was originally believed to have only lived on the passenger pigeon , which had been extinct for 23 years by the time of its discovery .

malcomson believed that columbicola extinctus had become extinct with its host and gave it the specific name extinctus to mark this fact .

however , by 1999 columbicola extinctus had been rediscovered living on the band-tailed pigeon , which is one of the passenger pigeon 's closest living relatives .

while the precise range of columbicola extinctus is not known , it is only known to live on one extant host , the band-tailed pigeon , and has been found on birds across its range .

the band-tailed pigeon lives along the pacific coast of north america from southern british columbia to northern baja california .

it is also found in the southern rocky mountains of utah and colorado south down the center of the continent through central america and into south america .

while its second known host , the extinct passenger pigeon , was alive , the louse could also be found in eastern north america from southern canada south to the gulf coast and northern florida .

columbicola extinctus feeds on the feathers and skin debris of their host .

their elongated shape allow them to conceal themselves between feather shafts and therefore avoid dislodgement while its host is preening or in flight .

they spend their entire life on a host pigeon , and can only be transferred from one pigeon to another when the pigeons come in contact .

these lice lay their eggs in parts of the body inaccessible to preening , such as the interior of feather shafts .

columbicola extinctus is an exopterygote and is born as a miniature version of the adult that is known as nymph .

the nymphs molt three times before reaching the final adult form , usually within a month of hatching .

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columbicola columbae , a species closely related to columbicola extinctus ( it seems the differences between them are slight modifications of the head and genitalia ; feel free to use your imagination ) . photo by vince smith , used under cc - by license .
and so humanity carried on , parading the passenger pigeon out as the flag - bearer for extinction , while its lowly louse faded from memory . that is , until 1999 , when , like a phoenix louse rising from the ashes of its host , columbicola extinctus out - lived its name . while reviewing the genus columbicola , dale clayton and roger price discovered that columbicola extinctus wasn’t found solely on the passenger pigeon , but was in fact still alive and well on the passenger pigeon’s closest living relative , the band - tailed pigeon ( patagioenas fasciata ) ! what’s more , columbicola extinctus was found on band - tailed pigeon specimens collected all up and down the pacific coast , from california to peru ! as clayton & price note
twelve previously described species of columbicola are recognized and redescribed . the species columbicola extinctus malcomson , previously recognized only from the extinct passenger pigeon , ectopistes migratorius ( l . ) , is “brought back” from extinction by showing it to be conspecific with lice from the extant band - tailed pigeon , columba fasciata say . five new species are described : drowni [ type host metriopelia melanoptera ( molina ) ] , altamimiae [ type host metriopelia aymara ( prevost ) ] , adamsi ( type host columba speciosa gmelin ) , waggermani ( type host columba squamosa bonnaterre ) , and waltheri [ type host geotrygon linearis ( prevost ) ] . columbicola triangularis eichler and columbicola gymnopeliae eichler are removed from synonymy and recognized as valid species . columbicola pseudolipeurusque eichler is considered a junior synonym of columbicola passerinae ( wilson ) rather than of columbicola macrourae ( wilson ) . we remark on informal groupings of the species and provide a key for the identification of the 17 species recognized in this article .
working from a preserved passenger pigeon specimen collected in 1895 and housed in the illinois natural history survey , richard malcomson discovered and described columbicola extinctus in 1937 , noting he had only seen 15 specimens of this new louse . in what may be the saddest etymological discussion i’ve seen , malcomson says :
“dr . ewing of the national museum , washington , d . c . , suggested the name of extinctus which surely is a suitable one for the passenger pigeon is now extinct and probably has carried the parasite into extinction with it . ”
it’s worth considering how bird specimens preserved and maintained in a natural history museum allowed taxonomists to not only find a species at a time when it was believed to be extinct , but to also resurrect that same species 60 years later , redefining the term “de - extinction” before it was trendy . sure , columbicola extinctus ’ species epithet may be a little premature , but it also serves as an important reminder that while extinction is usually forever , nature sometimes finds a way .
as we’re beginning to understand , no species is an island unto itself . every individual is an ecosystem of parasites , predators and symbionts , and thus when one species disappears , its co - dependents are just as likely to vanish , usually without us even realizing it . allow me to share the story of columbicola extinctus , a chewing feather mite that quietly faded into the night likely years prior to martha’s high - profile demise on september 1 , 1914 , and which we only learned about 20 years after that .
“our study reveals no consistent differences between columbicola specimens from the extinct passenger pigeon and those from the extant band - tailed pigeon , c . fasciata . thus , there is no longer grounds for considering this species of louse extinct , despite its unfortunate specific epithet . ”
dale h . clayton , roger d . price ; taxonomy of new world columbicola ( phthiraptera : philopteridae ) from the columbiformes ( aves ) , with descriptions of five new species , annals of the entomological society of america , volume 92 , issue 5 , 1 september 1999 , pages 675–685 , urltoken
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is a louse that was specific to the passenger pigeon , the bird that forever disappeared in the early 20th century . in addition to many advantages of the narrow specialization ,
has experienced the most drastic of its drawbacks : it has followed its only host into extinction . this could have been one of the impressive examples for a discussion regarding specialist vs . generalist strategies in parasites , if the story hadn ' t suddenly taken a happy turn .
that is still safe and sound . still , parasite coextinction is documented in numerous other cases where we may not count on such good luck . fortunately , there is now a large body of literature featuring related topics so that the problem is not neglected . the origin of this blog goes back to celebrating the year 2010 as an international biodiversity year . as the previous entries have shown , parasite diversity is enormous indeed . yet , some parasite species’ existence is challenged . further reading : koh l . p . et al . 2004 . species coextinctions and the biodiversity crisis . science 305 , 1632 . dunn r . r . et al . 2009 . the sixth mass coextinction : are most endangered species parasites and mutualists ? proc . r . soc . b , 276 , 3037 - 3045 . clayton d . h . , johnson k . p . 2003 . linking coevolutionary history to ecological process : doves and lice . evolution , 57 ( 10 ) , 2335–2341 . johnson k . p . et al . 2003 . when do parasites fail to speciate in response to host speciation ? syst . biol . 52 ( 1 ) , 37–47 . johnson k . p . et al . 2009 . competition promotes the evolution of host eneralists in obligate parasites . proc . r . soc . b , 276 , 3921–3926 . image is of
, from the paper : price et al . 2000 . pigeon lice down under : taxonomy of australian campanulotes ( phthiraptera : philopteridae ) , with a description of
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why parasite of the day ? ( if it ' s not every day . . . )
the united nations declared 2010 the international year of biodiversity . in celebration of the enormous diversity of parasites and to highlight their importance , we created this blog , which showcased a species of parasite every day . now that 2010 is over , we will continue to add more parasites from time to time , and write about any newly published research on parasite species that we have posted about yet .
see this post from the start of 2011 where we discuss the sheer scale of parasite biodiversity , and this post from the end of 2011 pretty much summarizes the mission of this blog .
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bush , albert , gerald esch and jacqueline fernandez . parasitism : the diversity and ecology of animal parasites . cambridge university press .
combes , claude . the art of being a parasite . university of chicago press .
desowitz , robert . new guinea tapeworms and jewish grandmothers . norton & company .
desowitz , robert . the malaria capers : tales of parasites and people . norton and compay .
moore , janice . parasites and the behavior of animals . oxford university press .
zuk , marlene . riddled with life : friendly worms , ladybug sex , and the parasites that make us who we are . mariner books
yesterday marked the 100 th anniversary of the extinction of one of our most iconic emblems , the passenger pigeon ( ectopistes migratorius ) . the web is alive with tributes to martha , the final individual of her species , and cautionary tales of conservation and how we should be working to prevent this happening to any other species . there has also been considerable discussion and debate recently whether the passenger pigeon may be a candidate for “de - extinction” ; the theoretical process of bringing a species back from the void through cloning and genetic engineering . seeing how i generally dislike vertebrates dominating the biodiversity news cycle , i figured we could all use a slightly less depressing story about extinction , de - extinction , the role of natural history museums in conservation , and of course , taxonomy .
and should someone ever succeed in bringing the passenger pigeon back from extinction ( however unlikely that is or may be to occur ) , we’ll be able to reunite two species who’s lives and legacies were intimately intertwined , and who were each thought to be lost to time and humanity . a fairytale ending if ever i’ve heard , albeit one that probably won’t make it to disney .
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