David Llewellyn, president and founder of Wyvern International Ltd., the exclusive worldwide distributor of Thoroughbred horse racing from Australia, has been named the 20th recipient of the University of Louisville’s John W. Galbreath Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurship in the Equine Industry.

The Galbreath Award, first given in 1990, is a project of U of L’s Equine In

Is your farm violating state regulations? How can you safely and effectively dispose of manure? Is beet pulp a good feed choice for your horse? Penn State Cooperative Extension is offering a series of Equine Environmental Stewardship short courses and workshops to address these questions as well as other management concerns of horse owners.

The curriculum consists of pasture, weed

After Thoroughbreds have completed their race careers, they are often ideal candidates for another vocation. To call attention to these horses’ second career possibilities, nationally recognized Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital has created a series of annual awards, the first of which will be presented to the top Thoroughbred sport horses of 2009.

Singer-songwriter and Nashville recording artist Templeton Thompson and her musician husband, Sam Gay, have written a song for the new documentary, Sculpting The Wind; Alexa King & The Making of the Barbaro Memorial Statue. The documentary chronicles artist Alexa King’s creation of the statue of Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro. The statue is now on display at Churchill Downs.<

The Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence Symposium: Hoofbeats and Society: the Horse-Human Relationship is scheduled for May 15-16 at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in North Grafton, Mass.

“Own Responsibly: The Problem of the Unwanted Horse” brochure has been updated and released by the Unwanted Horse Coalition (UHC).

The brochure details such aspects of the UHC as its key mission to educate horse owners about owning and breeding responsibly. The coalition’s goals are also listed, with the objectives being to 1) raise awareness of the issue and its con

Travis Tryan’s Precious Speck, best known as “Walt” and a four-time AQHA/PRCA Team Roping Heading Horse of the Year, died April 24 of an aneurysm while warming up for morning slack at the Clovis Rodeo in Clovis, Calif. The American Quarter Horse was 20.

“They had a special bond, and even in those final moments Walt seemed to be looking out for Travis,” said

Colic and gastrointestinal health in the horse are the subjects of the annual Equine Medicine Symposium of the student chapter of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) at the University of California, Davis. The symposium is scheduled for May 8, and proceeds will help fund wetlabs and other activities for students as well as help send several to the 2010 AAEP convention.

The Animal Humane Society (AHS), in partnership with the Minnesota Horse Welfare Coalition and the Minnesota Horse Council, will offer a free, one-day horse castration clinic on May 15 at the Isanti County Fairgrounds in Cambridge, Minn., through the Gelding Project. The goal of the clinic is to reduce the number of unwanted horses in Minnesota.

The clinic is the second in a serie

An equine veterinarian representing the “On Call” program of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) will assist NBC Sports and ESPN with horse-health information during the April 30 and May 1 live racing telecasts at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Equine surgeon Larry Bramlage, DVM, MS, will be on hand to provide timely health reports to the media regarding the

A 19-year-old Clydesdale recently helped England’s Forestry Commission haul logs out of Rockingham Forest with minimal damage to nearby trees and plants. Instead of using machinery, which would have cut a wider swath through the forest, the horse hauled out logs as part of planned tree felling to give younger trees a better chance to grow.

The horse, named Silent, moved more than 100 logs in

The American Horse Council’s Legislative Director Ben Pendergrass participated in the April 16 White House Conference on America’s Great Outdoors held at the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The conference focused on the challenges, opportunities, and innovations surrounding modern-day land conservation and the importance of reconnecting Americans and American families to the outdoors. Conse

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) urges all horse owners to ask their veterinarians for West Nile Virus (WNV) and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) vaccination recommendations for their animals. An increased number of EEE cases occurred in Virginia in 2009, but the number of equine WNV cases dropped in comparison to the last couple of years. State officials are c

Children with autism between 7 and 12 showed improved cognition, communication, and motivation after participating in specific equine-assisted activities (EAA), according to a recently completed study. The research shows that riding, grooming, and interacting with horses had a noticeable, positive effect on study participants.

Margaret M. Bass, PhD, and Maria Llabre, PhD, focused on the impa

The 2010 Kentucky International Equine Summit has entered a partnership with HorseTV to provide a live video feed of the summit over the Internet. The biennial event is slated this year for April 26-27 at the Downtown Hilton in Lexington, Ky.

The University of Louisville Equine Industry Program sponsors the summit in cooperation with the University of Kentucky Equine Initiative. The summit w

William Fox-Pitt put in a foot-perfect show jumping round to complete a weekend during which Cool Mountain exceeded expectation and made his first CCI4* a winning one at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by Bridgestone.