A sell-out crowd applauded, cheered, and good-naturedly jeered some of the most famous jockeys in the world as they put themselves in the spotlight to raise money for the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund during a Riders Up! fundraiser on Friday, April 17, at Keeneland race course’s Entertainment Center in Lexington, Ky. The karaoke competition was filled with surprises.
Lexington’s
One of the groups that has successfully used the Thoroughbred Adoption Services on TheHorse.com is Kim Clark’s LeightonFarm.com. Now she has established a 501(c)(3) to help Thoroughbreds transitioning to a new life off the track.
“I placed 150 horses in 2008 through LeightonFarm.com,” said Clark. “Most of them Thoroughbreds retiring from racing. Being a Thoroughbred
Mule Day is a week-long celebration held each year in Columbia, Tenn. This year’s event will be Monday March 30 until Sunday April 5. According to the Mule Days muleday.com official Web site, this event started in 1840 as “Breeder’s Day,” a meeting for mule breeders. Organizers say it now attracts more than 200,000 people and take
Carolina Equine Rescue and Assistance took in Merimba, a 19-year-old gray mare, in July 2008. Besides being emaciated, slightly foundered, and slightly colicky, the mare was pregnant. Through the help of the rescue workers the mare has been doing great.
But her delivery of her colt Pelear three days ago (March 19) was difficult, and a veterinarian had to be called to help the mare
In a little more than four months 100 Thoroughbreds have found new homes through TheHorse.com’s Thoroughbred Adoption Service. Actually that number is higher as many folks who placed
Alltech, which bills itself as having “natural solutions to animal nutrition,” is sponsoring a series of roundtable discussion forums with speakers addressing cutting-edge issues from reproduction to traceability in the sport horse to the aging
Research indicates the Botai culture, on the steppes of what is now northern Kazakhstan, domesticated horses about 5,500 years ago. That’s 1,000 years earlier than was previously believed.
An abused and starved horse was dropped at a home in Mesa, Ariz., and the women and vet clinic caring for him are seeking donations to save his life.
The Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine has established a $25,000 scholarship in equine internal medicine in the name of the vet school’s Dean Warwick Bayly, BVSc, MS, PhD. Bayly has often assisted The Horse
An alleged cocaine ring was broken when Virginia State Police and Loudoun County authorities staged an early-morning raid March 8 the Middleburg Training Center in Virginia according to an article on
TheHorse.com apologizes for technical difficulties with the first delivery of the March 2 Nutrition newsletter
Rep. Bill Konopnicki’s Arizona House Bill 2178 would require the state’s Department of Agriculture to create a list of the states “approved equine-rescue facilities and to make that information available on its Web site and in its offices,” note
Two donkeys and a horse were among 311 animals seized from the Clean Slate Animal Rescue in Columbia, Ky., according to an article on kentucky.com.
The
The 11th Congress of the World Equine Veterinary Association (WEVA) will be hosted by the Brazilian Association of Equine Veterinarians (ABRAVEQ) and the Brazilian Confederation of Equestrian Sports in Guaruj?, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 24-27,
About 70 horses that were starving and without water were rescued from the Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota by tribal officials, Shannon County authorities, and state officials.
North Dakota legislators are advancing a plan that would allow the nation’s only equine slaughter facility to be built in that state, according to an article on
Stay on top of the most recent Horse Health news with
