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The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation announced May 25 a wide-ranging agenda of health and safety issues for Thoroughbred racing for the third summit, scheduled for June 28-29 at the Keeneland sale pavilion in Lexington.

All of June 28 sessions will be open to the public as will one session the following day. For the first time, Keeneland will provide live video streaming of

Achieving prime fitness in equine athletes will be the objective of The Winning Edge: Promoting Peak Performance in the Equine Athlete, a horse owner workshop held in conjunction with the 2010 FEI Alltech World Equestrian Games (WEG).

HRH Princess Haya, president of the Fédéracion Equestre Internationale (FEI), has called for a more rational risk-based approach to international trade requirements for the transportation of competition horses. Speaking to some of the world’s top animal health government officials at the 78th OIE General Assembly in Paris on May 23, the FEI president acknowledged

American breeders and sales companies now have access to a foreign market that had been off-limits to U.S. horses for the last five years due to import restrictions. The country of India had previously prohibited the import of horses from U.S. and Great Britain because those countries had horses test positive for the disease Contagious Equine Metritis. But now, the Ministry of Agr

The 73 horses living at Days End Farm Horse Rescue in Woodbine, Md., eagerly await visitors at the nonprofit rescue’s 21st Annual Spring Carnival on June 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. Games, fun, horses, and a yard sale are part of this annual fund-raising event. Visitors will be treated to pony rides on Days End rescue horses, a petting zoo, face painting, stick

Two Quarter Horse geldings are under treatment for trauma and other injuries sustained when the gooseneck trailer in which they were riding overturned during a single-car incident on Ohio Interstate 71 May 22. The truck’s driver and four other occupants were transported to hospitals for treatment. Their conditions are unknown.

The trailer was overturned when the right front ti

More than 830 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “What do you do with the manure in your pastures/paddocks?”

A lawsuit aimed at preventing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from conducting wild horse gathers at the Calico Mountain Complex Herd Management Area in Nevada failed on May 24 when a federal judge dismissed the case.

The suit claimed that the gathers violate the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 because they endanger the lives of the animals. The act protects mus

A Colorado man faces multiple criminal charges in connection with a fire that killed 12 horses and several other animals earlier this month. The horses, a goat, and several chickens and roosters were residing in the stable in Commerce City, Colo., when the fire broke out on May 9. Tests conducted by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation later revealed that the blaze was deliberatel