Strike Out was born in 1969 at Castleton Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, and is by Bret Hanover out of the mare Golden Miss.

Bret Hanover ( 1962-1992 ) was an outstanding American Standardbred racehorse.

Bret Hanover was by the leading sire Adios and out of Brenna Hanover by Tar Heel, a Little Brown Jug winner and a leading sire.

Trained and driven by Frank Ervin in his 1964 debut season in racing, two-year-old Bret Hanover was undefeated, winning all 24 races he entered and would continue undefeated for 35 races.

Bret Hanover then became the first two-year-old ever to be awarded the honour of USTA Horse of the Year.

Bret Hanover was only ever beaten by three horses, Cardigan Bay, Adios Vic and True Duane.

Bret Hanover was one of only nine horses in history to win the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers.

Bret Hanover was retired as the fastest Standardbred pacer.

Bret Hanover sold to Castleton Farm in Lexington, Kentucky for a record $ 1 million.

After his death on November 21, 1992 Bret Hanover was originally buried at Castleton before his grave was moved to Lexington's Kentucky Horse Park.

Numerous stories have been written about the horse, including the book " Big Bum, The Story of Bret Hanover ".

Bret Hanover bowed to the crowd after every win, his driver Frank Ervin got out of the sulky, and Bret then crossed his front legs and bent over as the crowd responded.

Famous match races include the 1851 match at York between the Epsom Derby winners The Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur ; the 1878 four mile long race in Louisville between the Eastern U. S. colt Ten Broeck and California filly Mollie McCarty that inspired the song Molly and Tenbrooks, the Canadian contest between Man o ' War and Sir Barton in 1920, won by Man O ' War ; Seabiscuit's victory over War Admiral in the 1938 Pimlico Special ; the 1955 race between Nashua and Swaps, the 1966 Pace of the Century between standardbred champs Bret Hanover and Cardigan Bay, and 1975's tragedy-marred contest between colt Foolish Pleasure and filly Ruffian at Belmont Park.

Cam Fella ( May 14, 1979-May 9, 2001 ) was a bay pacing horse by Most Happy Fella out of Nan Cam by Bret Hanover.

* Bret Hanover wins the United States Pacing Triple Crown races –

Along with his arch-rival, American champion of the day, Bret Hanover, he has a legitimate claim of being one of the truly great Standardbred racehorses.

He was the only horse to defeat the three U. S. Hall of Fame horses of that era: Overtrick, Bret Hanover, and Meadow Skipper.

Perhaps his most famous encounter was with the great Standardbred horse, Bret Hanover, in the Pace of the Century, in 1966.

Cardigan Bay, with Stanley Dancer driving, won that race in front of 45, 000 spectators at Yonkers Raceway, New York and became only one of two horses ( the other being Adios Vic ) up to that time to have beaten Bret Hanover.

However, in their next encounter, the " Revenge Pace ," Bret Hanover reversed that one-two finish.

He was the only horse to defeat the three U. S. Hall of Fame horses of that era: Overtrick, Bret Hanover, and Meadow Skipper.

* Bret Hanover

As champions, they easily defeated a number of the top teams of the WWF, which at the time had a very talent-rich and hotly contested tag division, most notably the British Bulldogs and Hart Foundation ( Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart ).

Led by the pitching of Bret Saberhagen, Darryl Motley's two-run home run, and George Brett's four hits, the Royals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 11 – 0.

Piper apologized for this incident the next night on Nitro and attempted to make the save for Goldberg when Bret Hart and the nWo beat him down, but the nWo also attacked Piper.

Lawler did not face Bret Hart at another pay-per-view until the first In Your House, when he beat Hart after Hakushi and his manager Shinja interfered.

Their opponent in the semi final was Mid-South Division champs Texas Spurs who they beat 1-0 ; unfortunately for the Fire, they lost the Central Conference championship game to Heartland Division champions Sioux Falls Spitfire ( who went on to finish third in the national playoffs ), but is still marked an excellent debut for the team-so much so that head coach Bret Hall was named PDL Coach of the Year in the end of season awards.

In the so called " Revenge Pace " also set up by Yonkers, driver Frank Ervin's great Bret Hanover beat Dancer and Cardigan Bay in a track record 1: 58 3 / 5.

The Pace of the Century was a match race between two of the greatest ever standardbred harness horses, namely Bret Hanover and Cardigan Bay.

Cardigan Bay was one of only two horses to have ever beaten Bret Hanover but it wasn't close that evening as Bret Hanover won the $ 25, 000 race by three lengths en route to Horse of the Year for the third straight time.

Ward grew up in the East Bay in the Fairview neighborhood of Hayward, in California, where he attended Fairview Elementary, Bret Harte Junior High School and Hayward High School.

Research has found that this technique not only reduces the occurrence of nightmares and insomnia, but also improves other daytime PTSD symptoms. According to Bret Moore and Barry Krakow, the most common variations of Imagery Rehearsal Therapy ( IRT ) " relate to the number of sessions, duration of treatment, and the degree to which exposure therapy is included in the protocol ".

Bret Michaels, lead singer of the rock band Poison was also born here in 1963.

Most of Bret Easton Ellis works, but particularly Less Than Zero ( 1985 ) and Glamorama ( 1998 ), also use of stream of consciousness.

Lawson was a keen reader of Dickens and Marryat and novels such as Robbery under Arms and For the Term of his Natural Life ; an aunt had also given him a volume by Bret Harte.

Bret Michaels also released his 2nd solo album Songs Of Life which featured singles " Bittersweet " and " Raine " which featured a music video and was dedicated to his daughter.

Poison were largely inactive in 2005 which is when Bret Michael's released his third solo album, the country-rock-influenced Freedom Of Sound, which included the single " All I Ever Needed " featuring Jessica Andrews, which also featured a music video and appeared on Billboard's " Hot Country Songs " chart, with its best position being number 45.

It also included the singles " Right Now, Right Here " and " Open Road " which Bret performed live on Nashville Star, a country reality television program which featured Michaels as one of the judges.

Bret Michaels also starred in Rock of Love with Bret Michaels ( season 2 ).

In 2009, Bret Michaels starred in the third installment of Rock of Love called " Rock of Love Bus ", featuring a music video with clips from the series for the new single " Driven ( Rock Mix )" and a Poison box set was also released, consisting of 3 Cd's of music from 1986-2000.

The album also includes the song " Riding Against the Wind ", which features a music video and is the theme song for his new reality Docu-series " Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It ", which officially premiered on VH1 on Oct. 18, 2010.

Bret Michaels will also continue his solo tour to promote his newest upcoming solo album " Get Your Rock On ".

Warner Brothers also dressed Robert Colbert, a Garner look-alike, in Bret Maverick's outfit and called the character Brent, but Brent Maverick did not catch on with viewers and Colbert made only two episodes toward the end of the season, leaving the rest of the series run to Kelly ( alternating with reruns of episodes with Garner ).

He was the eponymous hero in the serial Ivanhoe, a very loose adaptation of the romantic novel by Sir Walter Scott, and he also appeared in the series The Alaskans, as well as playing Beau Maverick, an English-accented cousin of frontier gamblers Bret Maverick ( James Garner ) and Bart Maverick ( Jack Kelly ) in Maverick.

Crazy Town ( also known as CxT ) is a rap rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1995 by Bret Mazur and Seth Binzer.

The event featured Owen Hart defeating his elder brother Bret ; a ladder match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship also headlined, in which Razor Ramon defeated Shawn Michaels.

He is also a two-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion and one-time WCW World Tag Team Champion ( with Bret Hart ).

The show also stars Kevin Corrigan, Bret Harrison and Richard Riehle.

Bateman was also portrayed by Dechen Thurman ( brother of Uma ) in the 2000 documentary This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis.

" Tennessee's Partner " is also one of the greatest short stories of Bret Harte's fiction career.

Hanoi Rocks is mentioned by Bret Michaels in the song " Human Zoo " from his album A Letter from Death Row, which is also the soundtrack to the film of the same name.

Hart also claimed that when Michaels replied that he would never lose to Hart, Bret was shocked and became angry.

Bret Hart's refusal to lose to Michaels in Montreal has been criticized by others such as Ric Flair, who asserted that it was Hart's responsibility to drop the title belt of a company he was leaving ( Flair himself was WCW champion when he left the company and signed with the WWF in 1991, even appearing on TV with the NWA / WCW belt, but also dropped the WWF Title to Hart on Oct. 12, 1992 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at a house show ).