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Ice Box, runner-up in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands, drew post position 6 and was installed as the 3-1 morning favorite when a dozen horses were entered for the June 5, $1 million Belmont Stakes. The 1 1/2-mile Belmont is the third leg of Thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown. Trained by Nick Zito for owner Robert LaPenta, Ice Box is one of three Derby starters ente

Safe Haven Horse Rescue will host For the Love of Horses, a benefit dinner and wine tasting on June 12 at 6 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Sacramento Arden West Hotel. The event, to be held in conjunction with the June 11-13 Western States Horse Expo in Sacramento, Calif., will include dinner, a silent auction, wine tasting, live music by Buck Ford and his Pure Country B

A West Virginia man faces animal cruelty charges connected to the alleged neglect of more than 50 equines seized from his Wayne County property last week. Acting on a tip, Wayne County law enforcement authorities discovered the 51 allegedly malnourished horses, mules, and donkeys residing in a muddy three-acre enclosure without access to adequate food and water. More than 40 alleg

Mutations in the gene called OAS1 contribute to a horse’s ability to fight West Nile Virus (WNV), reported a group of researchers led by David Adelson, PhD, Professor and Chair of Bioinformatics and Computational Genetics from the University of Adelaide in South Australia. Previous research in mice indicated that the OAS genes played a role in immunity to flaviviruses (such as

Central Kentucky Riding for Hope (CKRH), a NARHA therapeutic riding program, is looking for horses to add to its equine team. The program has recently expanded into a new facility and a new year-round schedule. CKRH has many requests to provide services, but is currently limited in its ability to expand due to a shortage of appropriate horses. The type of horse CKRH is looking for

An equine rescue is a business and should be run like one, or it risks putting its horses in more jeopardy.

When the TV series “Jockeys” ran on Animal Planet two years ago, senior University of Florida veterinary student Ramon Perez was quite the hot commodity with his classmates. That’s because for a three-year window in the 1990s, Perez himself was one of the biggest names in Thoroughbred horse racing. “My classmates usually ask me things like, ‘What’s it like?&r

The Mustang Heritage Foundation (MHF), working in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management, is providing youth ages 15-24 with an opportunity to learn and earn over the summer through projects offered by its Youth Employment Program (YEP). The 12-week work-from-home program provides youth a chance to learn about the American mustang, share their knowledge with others, and be

More than 450 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “Are you planning on attending the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in person?”

In an equine study using “proteomic” technology that systematically analyzed the proteins in skeletal muscle biopsies, a research team from The Netherlands identified a form of the protein creatine kinase that could be a marker for acute tying-up in horses. “Tying-up or rhabdomyolysis in horses is a serious condition that is characterized by obvious discomfort, abno

If someone says he or she can think or talk about equine neurology without becoming dizzy, that shows only the person has not understood anything about it… To take the dizzy factor out of understanding neurologic disease in horses, I.G. Joe Mayhew BVSc, FRCVS, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, ECVN, head of Equine Massey and professor of equine studies at New Zealand’s Massey University, has dedicated much of