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

When it comes to forming couples, do opposites really attract? Or does it boil down to chemistry? New research in Switzerland suggests that, at least for horses, both of these phenomena play into the process of selecting mates. The reactions of mares at different stages of their estrus cycles to various stallions were investigated and compared to the “chemistry”–or more specifical

American breeders and sales companies now have access to a foreign market that had been off-limits to U.S. horses for the last five years due to import restrictions. The country of India had previously prohibited the import of horses from U.S. and Great Britain because those countries had horses test positive for the disease Contagious Equine Metritis. But now, the Ministry of Agr

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

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).

The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation announced May 25 a wide-ranging agenda of health and safety issues for Thoroughbred racing for the third summit, scheduled for June 28-29 at the Keeneland sale pavilion in Lexington.

All of June 28 sessions will be open to the public as will one session the following day. For the first time, Keeneland will provide live video streaming of

Law enforcement authorities in Ellis County, Kan., are seeking information connected to the alleged theft of an Arab/Saddlebred-cross mare removed from its pasture at the RMH Ranch in Hays, Kan., on May 23.

Not only is the joint supplement ingredient type II collagen effective for arthritic horses, it also may be more effective than glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate.

A Colorado man faces multiple criminal charges in connection with a fire that killed 12 horses and several other animals earlier this month. The horses, a goat, and several chickens and roosters were residing in the stable in Commerce City, Colo., when the fire broke out on May 9. Tests conducted by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation later revealed that the blaze was deliberatel

A lawsuit aimed at preventing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from conducting wild horse gathers at the Calico Mountain Complex Herd Management Area in Nevada failed on May 24 when a federal judge dismissed the case.

The suit claimed that the gathers violate the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 because they endanger the lives of the animals. The act protects mus

More than 830 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “What do you do with the manure in your pastures/paddocks?”

Two Quarter Horse geldings are under treatment for trauma and other injuries sustained when the gooseneck trailer in which they were riding overturned during a single-car incident on Ohio Interstate 71 May 22. The truck’s driver and four other occupants were transported to hospitals for treatment. Their conditions are unknown.

The trailer was overturned when the right front ti