Equine digestive health product SUCCEED has teamed up with helmet advocate Jeri Bryant to launch the online helmet awareness campaign www.riders4helmets.com. The campaign is designed to educate equestrians on the benefits of wearing helmets. The Equestrian Medical Safety Association (EMSA) states that head injuries accoun

Leading experts on Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID) research in equestrian sport will address the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) Congress on NSAID Usage and Medication in the Equine Athlete in Lausanne, Switzerland this summer. C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, PhD, DSc, FRCVS, Dipl. ACVS, (USA); Pierre-Louis Toutain, professor at the Ecole Nationale Vét&

Strebors Black Magic On Demand, a Miniature Horse registered with the American Miniature Horse Registry, is spreading her own magic as a therapy horse. Known to her many fans as Magic, the black mini with blue eyes was recently named the Most Heroic Pet in America by the AARP. Magic, owned by Debbie and Jorge Garcia-Bengochea of Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses in High Spr

Safe Haven Horse Rescue will host For the Love of Horses, a benefit dinner and wine tasting on June 12 at 6 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Sacramento Arden West Hotel. The event, to be held in conjunction with the June 11-13 Western States Horse Expo in Sacramento, Calif., will include dinner, a silent auction, wine tasting, live music by Buck Ford and his Pure Country B

Central Kentucky Riding for Hope (CKRH), a NARHA therapeutic riding program, is looking for horses to add to its equine team. The program has recently expanded into a new facility and a new year-round schedule. CKRH has many requests to provide services, but is currently limited in its ability to expand due to a shortage of appropriate horses. The type of horse CKRH is looking for

With reining being a part of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games this fall in Lexington, Ky., the National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) will give equestrians the opportunity to “Ride a Reiner.” “Ride a Reiner” will be held throughout the games, Sept. 25-Oct. 10, in the John Deere Reining Arena. In an area just inside the main entry, NRHA will offer “

Breyer Animal Creations has released two Pink Ribbon model horses to launch its 2010 Canter against Cancer program. Breyer has melded the horse with the pink ribbon, the universal symbol of breast cancer, into a decorative model horse to symbolize the fight against this disease. Breyer will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of every model to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure and t

This Memorial Day, Old Friends will pay tribute to some special Thoroughbred champions.
On May 31, Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky., will have a commemorative service for eight retirees that have passed away in the last year.

Honored will be Calder Race Course Hall of Famer Flying Pigeon, multiple grade I winner Ruhlmann, Argentine-bred Go

A bobcat that scratched a horse last week in Florida has tested positive for rabies. The attack occurred on May 21 on Cherokee Street in Palm City. This is the first case of rabies in Martin county this year. Last year three animals tested positive for rabies—a bobcat, a raccoon, and a fox. The horse will be placed in quarantine for six months.

Achieving prime fitness in equine athletes will be the objective of The Winning Edge: Promoting Peak Performance in the Equine Athlete, a horse owner workshop held in conjunction with the 2010 FEI Alltech World Equestrian Games (WEG).

HRH Princess Haya, president of the Fédéracion Equestre Internationale (FEI), has called for a more rational risk-based approach to international trade requirements for the transportation of competition horses. Speaking to some of the world’s top animal health government officials at the 78th OIE General Assembly in Paris on May 23, the FEI president acknowledged

Michigan State University’s (MSU) online horse management program and the Universidad Mayor in Chile have partnered to offer two My Horse University courses in Spanish. Horse enthusiasts will now have access to short online learning experiences in Spanish on the topics of breeding mares and understanding equine conformation. In “Evaluation Conformation: Form to Function,&

Equine victims of abuse, neglect, and abandonment will be the stars at the second annual Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge. The Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society in College Station, Texas, is hosting the challenge to showcase the talents of its many rescues horses. “Many people believe rescue horses are used up or somehow damaged,” said Jennifer Williams, preside

The U.S. Equestrian Federation National Open Reining Championship and official United States Equestrian Team Selection Trial for the Adequan U.S. Reining Team will take place July 10 during the Battle in the Saddle at State Fair Park in Oklahoma City.

The Battle in the Saddle special reining event will decide who qualifies to represent the US in competition at the 2010 Alltech FEI

New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program is partnering with the hunter/jumper shows at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington to offer special Thoroughbred-only classes this summer.

The program’s mission to transition, re-train, and re-home retired racehorses continues to grow and expand. This year the program had a positive response when they reached out to the upcoming Country

Thomas A. (Tad) Davis, author of the Horse Owners and Breeders Tax Handbook, will conduct a tax workshop as part of the upcoming American Horse Council (AHC) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The tax session will be from 1:30-3:00 p.m. on June 21 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill.

Davis will discuss changes to the federal tax code affecting horse owners and others in the indus