The University of Rhode Island has received a $357,000 federal grant to study cattle ticks.
The money from the Department of Agriculture will be used to help researchers better understand how ticks transmit diseases to humans. Shahid Karim,
A proposal to limit horseback riding on state-owned trails is not sitting well with Connecticut’s thriving horse-riding community.
The state Department of Environmental Protection wants to limit horseback riding only to posted areas on
A bone-chilling Arctic cold wave with temperatures as low as 38 below zero shut down schools for thousands of youngsters Monday, halted some Amtrak service and put car batteries on the disabled list from the northern Plains across the Great
Jockey Jose Santos will be sidelined indefinitely because of injuries from a three-horse spill at Aqueduct.
Santos sustained spinal injuries, broken ribs and possibly a broken nose in Thursday’s accident. “It was bad, and Jose knew it was
On a busy day at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky., it’s possible to see pedestrians, trucks, horses and golf carts all traveling–albeit at far different speeds–down the same narrow road.
That kind of infrastructure isn’t
A veterinarian pleaded guilty to falsifying records in a case that included the arrests of four people in an alleged plot to fix harness races by injecting horses with banned performance-enhancing drugs.
John Witmer, 68, of Freehold, N.J.,
Barbaro’s owners will take their time before determining the final resting place for Kentucky Derby winner who was euthanatized Monday.
It could be the Kentucky Derby Museum, just a few hundred yards from the scene of his greatest triumph i
Greg Burchell doesn’t know if it’ll be days or weeks. For now, he just can’t bear leading any of the 26 horses on his farm into a certain stall inside barn No. 4.
The stall is different from the others because a diamond-shaped opening allow
Police say the two horseback riders involved in a fatal weekend snowmobile accident near Ashton, Idaho, likely won’t face charges, because Fremont County’s laws are unclear about taking horses onto snowmobile trails.
62-year-old Larry Mille
A federal judge gave after-the-fact approval today for the government to gather wild horses and burros around Las Vegas, Nev.
U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson rejected efforts by Nevada-based America’s Wild Horse Advocates and Wild Horses
“There have been an awful lot of positives,” co-owner Roy Jackson said at a news conference Monday (Jan. 29), just hours after Barbaro was euthanatized after a series of ailments, including laminitis in three feet.
“Veterinary medicine
More than 200 starving horses, cows, goats and dogs have been discovered on a Concord, Ga., farm.
Georgia Department of Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin said complaints about the animals’ condition came in last week.
“Considering
A horse belonging to a Catron County, N.M., family has been killed by a pack of endangered Mexican gray wolves, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Mark Miller and his family returned to their homestead on the Diamond Cree
Barbaro prepared for the biggest races of his career at the Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton, Md., munching on buttercups and frolicking in plush fields under the watchful eye of trainer Michael Matz.
So when news of his death Monday
A Florida track is honoring Barbaro by establishing a scholarship in his name.
Officials say the award will be worth at least $20,000 and will go to high school students planning to study veterinary medicine at the University of Florida.
Officials of the Kentucky Derby Museum at Churchill Downs say they’d be honored if Barbaro were buried in a garden along with four other Derby winners.
The horse’s final resting place could be just a few hundred yards from the scene of
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