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Racing Groups Have Say Before Washington Hearing
As the House Subcommittee on Commerce and Consumer Protection prepared for a June 19 hearing on the horseracing industry, groups continued to weigh in on various issues, including use of anabolic steroids in racehorses.
On June 18, the
USDA, Horse Council Hold Unwanted Horses Forum
It tends to get lost in the shuffle because it’s not as sexy as anabolic steroids, race-fixing, or catastrophic breakdowns from a media perspective. But talk to people who work in the horse industry every day, and they’ll tell you the issue of
Readers Respond: Where’s the Hay?
Almost 1,300 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “Are you having problems getting hay?”
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Congress chided Big Brown’s trainer for a lack of manners and the horse racing industry for failing to do enough to regulate itself. Then it threatened to pass legislation that would make the sport safer. Rick Dutrow’s no-show did not sit well An Alabama woman who claimed her Belgian Warmblood cross mare died in a barn fire now faces insurance fraud charges in connection with the horse’s death. Flomaton, Ala., Police Chief Mike Lambert said Brenda Gradia, 41, is accused of The Thoroughbred Safety Committee announced June 17 that it is recommending the elimination of steroids in race training and racing, a ban on toe grabs, and a series of whip-related reforms, all aimed at improving safety and integrity in Although the United States presidential election will get the biggest headlines as November approaches, horse industry representatives were told June 17 they should pay attention to–and get involved in–congressional races around the country. Following the recommendations The Jockey Club’s Thoroughbred Safety Committee made regarding the elimination of steroids, ban of toe grabs, and changes in whip usage, chairman Nearly 90 horses remain under veterinarians’ care at undisclosed locations after officials removed them from the Equus Sanctuary in Pearblossom, Calif. “They were desperately in need of food and water,” said Michelle Roache, deput Following the euthanasia of the filly Eight Belles, who suffered catastrophic injuries to both front legs a quarter-mile after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby, members of every sector of the Thoroughbred industry have banded together to Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo have revealed they reversed a vasectomy on an endangered horse to allow it to reproduce naturally–the first-known operation of its kind on an endangered species. Veterinarians said A committee of the Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council is continuing to gather information on anabolic steroids and is not yet ready to make a recommendation to the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority. Jim Smith, DVM, who chairs the committee, Veterinary surgeons at the University of Liverpool have developed a Web site dedicated to explaining the causes, prevention and treatment of colic in order to provide more Kristine Urschel, BSc, PhD, a postdoctoral student working under Paul Mellon Professor Ray Geor, BVSc, MVSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, at the Middleburg Agricultural Research and Extension The Supreme Court of the United States on June 16 denied certiorari in Cavel International, Inc. v. Madigan (No. 07-962), leaving in place a decision by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upholding a ban on slaughter of horses for human When her barn operator’s hay supply fell short last fall, Kentucky horse owner Linda Jones struggled mightily with high prices and limited availability to keep her two Saddlebreds fed. “I’m stocking up now,” Jones said. “I don’t Readers’ Most PopularWeekly Poll |
