Hundreds of viewers of a June 8 segment on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric featuring the Kentucky-based stallion retirement facility Old Friends have responded by opening their hearts and wallets.
Old Friends volunteer Ruthann von den
In a scene reminiscent of many retirement communities, three Old Friends retirees– Sunshine Forever, Awad, and Kiri’s Clown–each stand on their own side of a black, three-plank wooden fence that separates their paddocks and seemingly engage one
Soon after the death of Barbaro Jan. 29, horse racing enthusiasts and fans of the colt began contacting equine retirement organizations and making donations in his memory.
“We’ve received at least a dozen donations from Minnesota, Wisconsin
A newly formed organization that hopes to garner public support for an eventual ban on horse slaughter in the United States announced Oct. 28 two-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Nick Zito would be the group’s national
The dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Kentucky told several Kentucky lawmakers the school’s Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center is overburdened and under-funded.
“Quite frankly, we are not the best equine diagnostic center and we should be,” Dean Scott Smith told members of the Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Horse
Artificial insemination (AI) and stallion book size were among the more controversial topics discussed as university professors from across the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and Israel gathered in Louisville, Ky., June 25-28 for the third International Equine Industry Program Academic Conference.
About 35 participants presented papers on a variety of topics ranging from
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