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Minnesota Authorities Investigating Mutilation of Pet Horse
Authorities were investigating the killing and mutilation of an 11-year-old girl’s pet horse in Central Minnesota.
Katie Symalla discovered her horse, Savannah, dead in the field by her family’s farm in Long Prairie on Saturday.
She wa
Equestrian Longevity (Book Excerpt)
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Thoroughbred Broodmare Sells for World Record Price at Keeneland
English Thoroughbred champion Playful Act shattered the world record for a broodmare or broodmare prospect sold at public auction when her price soared to $10.5 million Nov. 5 on the opening day of the Keeneland breeding stock sale in Lexington.
Horse Owners Encouraged to Invest in GPS Unit for Hauling
You’re on your way to a horse show when your truck breaks down. You know that you are on a main road, but you are not exactly sure where. You did not pay attention to the signs at the last town you passed. How do you give directions so help
Readers Respond: Preparing for the Worst
More than 1,300 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “Do you buy insurance for your horse(s)?”
A two-day conference Dec. 12-13 at the Michigan State University (MSU) Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center in East Lansing will provide a forum for the state’s equine enthusiasts to engage in discussions and presentations examining the industry’ The equine influenza outbreak has not been able to penetrate the outer shell of excellence of the Melbourne Cup. In fact, the Aus$5 million ($4.6million) Cup, run over two miles on Nov. 6, features as good a field as ever. There are 24 runners The American Horse Council (AHC) held a day-long Issues Forum at Keeneland Racetrack in Lexington, Ky., on Nov. 2. This is the second such forum held outside the AHC’s base in Washington, D.C. Topics covered included: The U.K.’s Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad (SPANA) recently introduced its “Happy Hooves” Christmas gift catalog, featuring an array of veterinary The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said it will offer over 100 wild Kiger mustangs for adoption at auction this month. “With the animals being gathered from the range only every three or four years, this adoption is highly anticipated and The annual Animal Health Trust (AHT) Equestrian Awards were a glittering occasion, not just for the diamonds and couture dresses but also for the twinkle in the eyes of the people who make up the industry, congratulating themselves on yet There’s nothing like breaking a few dozen bones and losing half your teeth to convince you that there’s got to be a better way. That was the conclusion of longtime horse trainer Blaine Prieur after years of training horses “the old way.” While most of us are enjoying our sleep at two in the morning, it is anything but quiet in the equine operating room at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital. A young foal from four hours away has just arrived, and is in need of Less than week after a double-decker trailer rollover caused the death of 17 horses, a member of the Illinois General Assembly introduced legislation that would ban the use of such trailers to transport horses for any reason. Ill. State Grade I winner Lawyer Ron, the leading candidate for champion older male, has been retired from racing and will enter stud for a fee of $30,000 at Audrey Haisfield’s Stonewall Farm near Versailles, Ky. A 4-year-old son of Langfuhr, Lawye Barretts Equine Limited, a leading California Thoroughbred auction facility, recently became the first West Coast auction house to employ the Eklin Digital Repository for review of digital radiographs (DR). Six review workstations were installed Readers’ Most PopularWeekly PollPartners in Equine Health
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