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Quarter Horse Youth Membership Reaches All Time High
The American Quarter Horse Youth Association’s (AQHYA) membership recently broke the 30,000 mark, a first since 1996, with 30,033 members. The Association saw an increase of 737 from this time last year. Since its inception in 1970, AQHYA has
The Horse Magazine Welcomes 6,500 New Readers from The Trail Less Traveled
The Horse: Your Guide To Equine Health Care, the equine industry’s foremost health care magazine, announces that its circulation house file has increased by 6,500 readers with the addition of former subscribers to The Trail Less Traveled magazine. The Trail Less Traveled, formerly published by Winsor Publishing of Louisville, Colo., ceased publication in October
Field and Stream Advocates Donkey BBQ
Field and Stream columnist Thomas McIntyre is free in this country to say what he pleases, but methinks he’s gone too far. While he rambles around quite a bit in his column, taking pokes and jabs at all equids and their owners along the way, his final paragraph is something that horse owners should read and ponder. If you have any thoughts on this column, please feel free to reply to
Magazine Welcomes 6,500 New Readers from
The Horse: Your Guide To Equine Health Care, the equine industry’s foremost health care magazine, announces that its circulation house file has increased by 6,500 readers with the addition of former subscribers to The Trail Less
AQHA Moves Ahead in Approving Dressage
The American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) has taken the first steps toward recognizing dressage. Beginning Jan. 1, 2004, American Quarter Horses competing at official U.S. Equestrian and United States Dressage Federation (USDF) shows
Advocates Donkey BBQ
Field and Stream columnist Thomas McIntyre is free in this country to say what he pleases, but methinks he’s gone too far. While he rambles around quite a bit in his column, taking pokes and jabs at all equids and their owners along the
Groups That Oppose Slaughter Ban Target of Letter
Blue Horse Charities has stepped up the campaign for passage of legislation to ban horse slaughter with a strongly worded letter and a full-page advertisement on the back page of the Nov. 8 edition of Daily Racing Form.
In a three-page letter mailed to industry organizations, constituents, and the media, Blue Horse Charities alleges the American Quarter Horse Association
Delaware Testing for Blood-Doping Antibodies
The racing commissions that govern Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing in Delaware have been testing for erythropoietin (EPO) antibodies since June 1, and in the future may implement rules to penalize horses that test positive.
In a
Arkansas Horses Recovering from Brutal Beatings
Nearly three months after they were selected from among several other horses and viciously beaten, two Arkansas Quarter Horses, three-year-old buckskin filly Quarter Horse Puddin’ and five-year-old sorrel mare Fat Girl, are alive but remain seriously injured. The horses were attacked Aug. 6 in the town of Guy, while owner Patrice Swan was gone for 90 minutes helping a neighbor with a
West Nile Virus Treatment: Plasma Product Licensed
Since December 2001, the donors have been vaccinated multiple times with the WNV vaccine. The company had to prove purity, safety, and reasonable expectation of efficacy to have the plasma conditionally licensed for treating WNV.
Public and Animal Health Consequences of Disasters
Even as the California fires were beginning to rage out of control, Sebastian Heath, VetMB, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, Dipl. ACVPM, senior staff veterinarian for USDA-APHIS, Emergency Programs, was discussing the consequences of animals in disaster situations to an audience at the University of Kentucky.
Rural hazards range from natural disasters to epidemics (such as the foot and mouth diseas
More MRLS Research
Mare reproductive loss syndrome (MRLS) has been a primary research project for many veterinarians and scientists since it began causing early and late term abortions, sickness in foals, pericarditis (heart problems), and uveitis (eye problems) in horses in the spring of 2001. Manu Sebastian, DVM, MS, a resident in Veterinary Pathology, and a PhD student at the University of Kentucky’s Gluck
Fires Cause Equine Evacuations
The raging California wildfires that have killed 20 people, destroyed about 3,400 homes, and blackened approximately 552,713 acres, also had a profound effect on the equine population. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of horses were evacuated from the fire’s path, by owners with their own trailers, volunteers who rushed in from as far away as Los Angeles (to the San Diego area), and commercial
Aftermath of the California Fires–Deaths and Injuries
Yankee, a 30-year-old bay gelding, is one fortunate survivor of the rampant California wildfires that have plagued the San Diego and San Bernardino areas, and other parts of the state, since late October. Owner Carol Prida’s home in Wildcat Canyon burned and fell on his stall Oct. 26, before he could be evacuated. Everything plastic in Yankee’s stall (including his buckets) melted from the
Veterinary Advisory Board Established at Equine Medical Center
A Veterinary Advisory Board made up of equine practitioners in Virginia and Maryland has been created for the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Va. Like members of the Equine Medical Center’s Council, Veterinary Advisory Board Members will provide advice and counsel to the Center’s director and staff in order to meet the needs of the equine industry and of the
Thoroughbred Charities of America Awards Grant to Equine Medical Center
The Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Va., recently was awarded a $25,000 grant from Thoroughbred Charities of America. Grant funds are designated for building research facilities to enable collaborative research efforts to benefit equine health. The Equine Medical Center, located in Leesburg, Virginia, is one of three campuses comprising the Virginia-Maryland Regional
