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Vaccine Lab Implicated as Source of FMD Outbreak

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is so highly contagious–and such a threat to farm economies–that the United States won’t allow researchers to work with the virus on the mainland. But in Britain, a lab making Foot and Mouth vaccines was located

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Diving Mule Act Concerns Animal Activists

Five bucks buys a ticket to Bill Rivers’ Saturday night rodeo and the chance to see three mules jump off a 24-foot-high platform into a six-foot-deep pool of water.

Rivers says the crowd goes wild for his “High Diving Aqua Mules” act. But

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Two Horses, Driver Killed After Truck Veers into Pasture

A driver and two horses died Monday when a dump truck veered off a road and into a barnyard, the Oregon State Police said.

Gene Hilby, 59, of Otis, Ore., was driving a dump truck loaded with dirt east on Highway 101. According to a witness,

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Appeals Court Rejects “Sally Hemings” Name for Filly

A federal appeals court ruled Aug. 7 that a filly can’t be named “Sally Hemings” after Thomas Jefferson’s most famous slave and reputed lover.

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, ruled that The Jockey Club can legally

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Jockey Begins Year Suspension for Shocking Horse

A jockey has begun serving a yearlong suspension for using an electronic buzzer on his Quarter Horse last year at Fairplex Park in Southern California.

Carlos Bautista began the suspension on July 24 after stewards at Los Alamitos racetrack

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Year’s First Anthrax Case in North Dakota Reported

A cow in Traill County has tested positive for anthrax, the first case in North Dakota this year.

State Veterinarian Susan Keller, DVM, said Monday that the dead cow was found in a herd that had 18 animals. The herd has been quarantined and

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Oklahoma Authorities Raid Illegal Horse Track

Authorities raided a horse racing operation suspected of running illegal races just north of the Oklahoma-Texas border Sunday in the culmination of an undercover investigation.

Constantin Rieger, the executive director of the Oklahoma Horse

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Tennessee Shire Might be Tallest Horse in the World

At an official measuring yesterday, the Shire horse Jenson Diplomat Tina–known as Tina–measured 20 hands tall.


The current Guinness World Record holder is a Belgian draft horse named Radar.According to Radar’s Web site, he is about 79

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