Two Nevada men facing federal charges in connection with the shooting deaths of five Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mustangs at the Buckhorn Management Area in November pleaded not guilty to the charges during an appearance in U.S. District Court in Reno, Nev., on April 27.
BLM helicopter pilots discovered the animals’ carcasses in December during a scheduled roundup of musta
WinStar Farm’s Endorsement has a non-displaced right front condylar fracture and will not be entered for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands.
According to Dr. Bo Landry, who radiographed Endorsement following his work, arrangements are currently being made to ship the colt out for surgery. He is expected to be out three to six months.
“We’re making
An equine veterinarian representing the “On Call” program of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) will assist NBC Sports and ESPN with horse-health information during the April 30 and May 1 live racing telecasts at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Equine surgeon Larry Bramlage, DVM, MS, will be on hand to provide timely health reports to the media regarding the
An ongoing spring outbreak of atypical myopathy has caused a reported 47 cases in Europe to date, according to an alert group led by Belgian researchers.
Reports of new cases continue to stream into the data being collected by the Atypical Myopathy Alert Group (AMAG) at the University of Liége, according to Gaby van Galen, DVM, MSc, Dipl. ECEIM, one of the group’s two p
The Animal Humane Society (AHS), in partnership with the Minnesota Horse Welfare Coalition and the Minnesota Horse Council, will offer a free, one-day horse castration clinic on May 15 at the Isanti County Fairgrounds in Cambridge, Minn., through the Gelding Project. The goal of the clinic is to reduce the number of unwanted horses in Minnesota.
The clinic is the second in a serie
Horse rescue operations are an unfortunate, but necessary, part of the landscape these days. And the people who take it upon themselves to care for
The cloned foal of 10-goaler Mariano Aguerre’s famed gelding, Califa, was born April 22, making him the first cloned polo pony in the world. The bay colt is an intact stallion genetically identical to Califa.
Aguerre has not settled on a name for the colt yet, but already has big plans for him. The colt will be able pass along Califa’s genetics as a stallion, an opportunit
Researchers trying to find alternatives to control strongyles, which are developing resistance to current dewormers, are looking at a fungus to control strongyles environmentally.
“Due to the emergence of anthelminthic resistance of the worms in horses, current treatments have not been fully effective,” said Juliana Milani Araujo, MSc, of Universidad Federal de Vicosa in
The city of Hardin, Mont., will not be a site for horse processing plant development, thanks to an ordinance that forbids the location of high-volume slaughter operations within the city limits. The Hardin City Council passed the ordinance last month. It went into effect April 16.
The ordinance amends the city’s zoning code to prohibit the development of any slaughter facility
More than 530 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “Was West Nile virus a threat in your area last year? If so, where do you live?”
The American Horse Council’s Legislative Director Ben Pendergrass participated in the April 16 White House Conference on America’s Great Outdoors held at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The conference focused on the challenges, opportunities, and innovations surrounding modern-day land conservation and the importance of reconnecting Americans and American families to the outdoors. Conse
A 19-year-old Clydesdale recently helped England’s Forestry Commission haul logs out of Rockingham Forest with minimal damage to nearby trees and plants. Instead of using machinery, which would have cut a wider swath through the forest, the horse hauled out logs as part of planned tree felling to give younger trees a better chance to grow.
The horse, named Silent, moved more than 100 logs in
In our last installment from the book Equine ER by Leslie Guttman, Thoroughbred Slewpy’s Star was dying of pleuropneumonia, and as a last resort, owner
Do you have questions about how best to deworm your horses? You’re not the only one! Join us for the extended Ask the Vet LIVE Q&A chat event on Parasite Basics and Deworming Tuesday April 27, from 2-3 p.m. EST.
ReRun, a nonprofit Thoroughbred adoption program, is currently holding its spring auction of Moneigh paintings on eBay. The 30 paintings are created by famous equine artists such as Zenyatta, Life is Sweet, Cigar, Funny Cide, Evening Attire, Da Hoss, and others using their muzzles, whiskers, hoofs, and tails. Funny Cide and Cigar actually paint by holding a paintbrush in their mouths.
Each
Owner John Greathouse and trainer Todd Pletcher confirmed Monday morning that star filly Devil May Care will be entered only in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and not cross-entered in Friday’s Kentucky Oaks.
Devil May Care will be ridden by regular rider John Velazquez. Velazquez was originally slated to ride Eskendereya, but the colt was withdrawn from
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