Latest News – The Horse

In less than six months, the world’s finest equine athletes will gallop into Kentucky’s Bluegrass region for the most prestigious, global equestrian championships–the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG). Alltech’s booth (#C911) the Equine Affaire in Columbus, Ohio, from April 8-11 will provide equine enthusiasts with the opportunity to experience the Alltech FEI Games in pe

A bill that would allow horse processing plant development in Tennessee advanced yesterday when members of the state’s House Finance Subcommittee passed it by a slim 7-6 margin. The measure now moves on for full Finance, Ways and Means and Budget Committee consideration.

HB 1428 directs the Tennessee Department of Agriculture to establish licensing, inspection, operational reg

Because parasite resistance to dewormers is developing in the United States, owners and trainers should deworm less often and only use products they know are effective in their herd, suggested Craig R. Reinemeyer, DVM, PhD, president of East Tennessee Clinical Research, Inc. in Rockwood

In a recent study, Reinemeyer and his colleagues tested whether a resistant strain of Parascari

An Arizona couple face multiple animal cruelty charges for allegedly killing a 26-year-old Arabian mare by injecting the animal with a homemade cocktail of pool acid and sodium bicarbonate. The pair are also charged with maltreating a 15-year-old horse.

County Sheriff’s Department Animal Crimes detectives discovered the animals last month when a tipster who was hired to dispos

The International Collating Center, Newmarket, England, and other sources reported the following disease outbreaks.

Contagious equine metritis (CEM) was reported in France (one case), Germany (two cases) and the United Arab Emirates that involved a non-breeding Thoroughbred stallion detected on pre-export testing.

Outbreaks of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) related diseas

A four-in-hand team of black Morgan geldings, owned by Alan and Maureen Aulson, are one step closer to their bid of making team to represent the United States at the World Equestrian Games (WEG), a first in the Morgan breed.

The combined driving four-in-hand team of Nordby Coalie’s Duke, Nordby Coalie’s Coal Dust, and the full brothers Nordby Shadow’s Sam Spade and Nor

Once again, the Rolex Kentucky 3-Day Event, this year Presented by Bridgestone, will host a truly international event at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky., April 22-25. The Rolex Kentucky 3-Day Event, part of the HSBC FEI Classics Series, attracts many of the world’s best horses and riders as they vie for their share of $250,000 in prize money.

Enhancing this year’

Horses at six New Jersey farms remain under quarantine as animal health authorities investigate a possible outbreak of the neurologic form of the Equine equine Herpes herpesvirus.

The Equine Herpes virusherpesvirus can cause respiratory problems especially in young horses, and spontaneous abortions in pregnant mares. The neurologic form of the virus is highly contagious among hors

Kip Deville, who survived a near-fatal case of laminitis earlier this year, is resting comfortably at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington after undergoing surgery for his third attack of colic.

“There are no new lesions, and it was a simple procedure,” said owner IEAH president Mike Iavarone. “He continues to amaze everybody with his incredible will to live

A group of wild horse advocates have asked a federal judge to order the return of 1,800 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mustangs to the Calico Mountain Complex range in Nevada. The BLM relocated the horses from the range to holding facilities during a controversial gather earlier this year.

In a brief filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., March 31 by Atty. Bill Spri