
NTRA Shows Support for Racing Industry Reforms
The NTRA is submitting a letter outlining significant progress in the national reform effort to enhance the safety and integrity of horse racing.


The NTRA is submitting a letter outlining significant progress in the national reform effort to enhance the safety and integrity of horse racing.

If you’ve ever considered your horse to be your “better half,” you’re not alone. Norwegian and American researchers recently found that riders and horses can enter into a unique state of interspecies “co-being” with one other.
The University of Kentucky Ag Equine Programs, which includes the Gluck Equine Research Center and Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, will host two continuing education events in the next three months.
If you didn’t already notice by the slew of laminitis-related stories surfacing on TheHorse.com’s news feed, I recently returned from the biennial International Laminitis Conference.
A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with animal cruelty after her elderly mare died of alleged starvation earlier this week.

The suit was filed in May 2012 with the case based on affidavits from a whistleblower and a veterinarian, who alleged a pattern of abuse spread across satellite farms from New York to Kentucky to Oklahoma.

There’s a new team on the roster for the University of Kentucky, one with barrels, bulls, roping, wrestling, and a whole lot of enthusiasm by a group of students who have worked hard to put their dreams into reality.

Because no new drugs against small strongyles are currently being developed, an effective parasite control program should aim to prevent further resistance.
I have hay in my shoes just about every day. Photo: Michelle N. Anderson Sometimes it feels like hay bits follow me around wherever I

Brazilian researchers studied the drug reparixin’s effects on horses with experimentally induced laminitis.
Beginning Nov. 19 people will be able to reserve domain names ending in .horse.

Nominees include 2012 award winner Paynter, Mucho Macho Man, Wise Dan, Groupie Doll, Princess of Sylmar, and Game On Dude.

A diverse group of speakers will gather to discuss integrity and safety in horse racing at a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hearing scheduled for Nov. 21.
More than 60 horses allegedly owned by a woman already facing multiple animal cruelty charges are receiving rehabilitative care after being seized from a Spokane County, Wash., farm last week.

Of the 748 voters, 257 (34%) said they order and store more than 6 tons of hay for the winter.

Much of Kentucky’s pastures contain fescue, and while those pastures can appear lush and beautiful, they can also be dangerous for the animals that graze them.
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