Latest News – The Horse
KEEP Designates February as Fundraising and Membership Month
The Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP) has designated February as its fundraising and membership month. The organization hopes to receive funds or pledges totaling $850,000 during the month as well as renew its current memberships of more
American Farrier’s Association Convention Coming to Albuquerque
The American Farrier’s Association (AFA) will host the world’s largest gathering of professional farriers at its 36th Annual Convention, to be held February 27-March 3 in Albuquerque, N.M.
The convention will be held at the Albuquerque
UC Davis Veterinary Emergency Response Team Rides to the Rescue
John Madigan, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVIM, director of the UC Davis Veterinary Emergency Response Team, is a specialist in equine neonatology who has ventured beyond his field into the arena of disaster medicine and large animal rescue work. As a
Supporting Limb Laminitis: Learning How to Save Horses Such As Barbaro
Barbaro’s death might lead one to think that despite the best veterinary care available, horses with severe leg injuries and/or laminitis are unrecoverable and should be immediately destroyed. But one equine veterinarian says that couldn’t be further
Jockey Jose Santos Out Indefinitely After Three-Horse Accident
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
Life-Size Seabiscuit Sculpture Coming to Horse’s Home Farm
After an absence of more than 55 years, a life-sized bronze sculpture of the legendary American racehorse Seabiscuit is coming back to its original home in northern California.
Workers in Salt Lake City and the San Francisco Bay Area
$1 Million Professorship Established for UK Equine Program
A $1 million endowed professorship has been established by the James Graham Brown Foundation and Research Challenge Trust Fund to honor Stanley Smith Dickson, a native Kentuckian with a multigenerational legacy in the state’s horse industry.
Rutger’s Annual Yearling Auction Scheduled for April 29
The 8th Annual NAERIC Yearling Auction to be held at Cook College holds promises of bright futures for twelve well-trained yearling horses. The eight geldings and four fillies have spent the past eight months as part of the Young Horse Teaching
Wyoming Wild Horse Sanctuary Problems Found
In a report by Phil Whilte of the Star-Tribune in Wyoming, a 23,000-acre ranch west of Laramie was found to have nine horses in below-average condition and one horse that could not rise and was euthanatized, according to a report from
Two Horses Die in Ohio Fire
A retired carriage horse and another horse were among six animals that died in a blaze on a farm Jan. 31 near Hanover Township, Ohio, according to an article on Cincinnati.com, the Web site of The Enquirer (
Belize Horse Dies After Struck by Car
A common practice in Belize is for horse owners to tie their animals to trees near roads. This has resulted in problems such as horses getting the ropes around their legs and being injured or cutting off circulation to that limb. In the latest
Mississippi Horse Shot
A black and white, 3-year-old Tennessee Walking Horse mare was shot and killed near Helena, Miss., on Jan. 30 in the middle of the afternoon, reported Brad Crocker on gulflive.com (
Ky. Horse Park Gets Governor’s Backing for $38 Million More
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
Ga. Horse Neglect Case: Officials Impounding Horses
Georgia agriculture officials said today (Feb. 2) they have found a private facility willing to house the 98 horses found in an alleged state of neglect in Pike County, Ga. The horses will be impounded as soon as final arrangements with the
Equine Rescue Groups and Sanctuaries Receive ASPCA Grants
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has announced the recipients of its equine grants for the first quarter of 2007. A variety of equine rescue groups and sanctuaries across the United States received aid
Va. Equine Isolation Unit is Valuable Tool in Battle Against Infectious Diseases
Whether it’s equine herpesvirus-1, Potomac horse fever or strangles, infectious diseases in horses have appeared frequently in recent news headlines. The Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Va., is on the frontlines in the
